Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, co-principal investigator of the study, said: “By the end of the week we should have a quarter of a million arms done.”

A Limpopo municipality speaker has been accused of making false travel claims and abusing a petrol card while using an official vehicle.

Facebook said on Monday it planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America in a project with Google and regional telecommunication companies to boost internet connection capacity between the regions.

Abdool Karim scotched rumours that his decision to step down was due to conflict between himself and health minister Zweli Mkhize and within the MAC.

The Sudanese government and a major rebel group from its southern Nuba Mountains on Sunday signed a document which paves the way for a final peace agreement by guaranteeing freedom of worship to all while separating religion and the state.

Dozens of people were killed in an attack on the northern Mozambique town of Palma this week, a spokesman for the country's defence and security forces said, including seven people when a convoy of cars was ambushed in an escape attempt.

A 50-year-old woman was shot dead and her teenage daughter injured when a man held them captive in a Limpopo house at the weekend.

Indonesian state oil company Pertamina said on Monday it has shut its Balongan oil refinery in West Java as it battles to control a massive fire that broke out overnight, injuring five people.

Video game fans pretty much have tiny museums on their shelves at any given time. Preserving history, having a shrine dedicated to a single franchise, it’s all par for the course.

A jury will gather on Monday to hear whether the deadly arrest of George Floyd, which ignited a global protest movement ten months ago, amounts to murder as opening arguments commence in the trial of former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin.

Businesswoman Norma Mngoma has praised God following the withdrawal of all charges against her.

Robert Costigan thought the worst was behind him when he saved two family properties from bushfires a summer ago.

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At the start of the pandemic children in Nelson Mandela Bay knew Covid-19 as the “purple germ”, but one year on these same children know more about a disease that can sometimes be “very dangerous”.

The electronic card will combat the sale of counterfeit certificates

The SA alcohol industry has raised concerns over a possible liquor ban ahead of the Easter long weekend.

Whether locked down on campus or quarantined back home, Covid-19 hit many international students harder than their South African classmates.

The stranded container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week was almost fully refloated on Monday and has restarted its engines, a shipping source with knowledge of the matter said, raising hopes the busy waterway will soon be reopened.

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The SA Human Rights Commission will on Monday hold a meeting with the owners of Boulders Shopping Centre in Midrand to address concerns around last week’s incident when Ndebele activist Thando Mahlangu was asked to leave the centre.

A party attended by at least 1,000 people turned chaotic on the Summerstrand beachfront on Saturday with bottles throw at passing vehicles and a car guard left for dead.

A court case brought by a group of doctors and lobby group AfriForum involving the right of doctors and pharmacists to use ivermectin to treat Covid-19 patients is expected to be heard on Monday.

Hundreds of people fleeing an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents on a northern Mozambique town adjacent to major gas projects are arriving by boat in the port city of Pemba, a diplomat and an aid worker said on Sunday.

One person drowned and three others are missing after the taxi they were traveling in was swept away while the vehicle crossed a low-lying bridge in Weenen, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday evening.

SA still not clear on whether SANDF will go into the bordering country

A 47-year man who was allegedly robbed and kidnapped in Bellville in Cape Town, has been rescued, Western Cape police said on Sunday.

Suez Canal salvage teams were alternating between dredging and tugging on Sunday to dislodge a massive container ship blocking the busy waterway, while two sources said efforts had been complicated by rock under the ship's bow.

About 3,000 villagers from Myanmar's southeastern Karen state fled to Thailand on Sunday after air attacks by the army on an area held by an ethnic armed group, an activist group and local media said.

A baboon has been spotted on the loose in the Parktown north areas on Sunday.