Grade 11 pupil Tsakane Koko competed in an international AI competition against 21 other countries and took second place.

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The percentage of US Black adults who say they have either received a vaccine shot for Covid-19 or want one as soon as possible rose to 55% in March from 41% in February, a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) showed.

Enraged parents of 10 pupils who were allegedly subjected to corporal punishment by teachers at Osborn Senior Secondary School in KwaBhaca (formerly Mount Frere), Eastern Cape, want action taken against the teachers.

Prominent lawyer Barnabas Xulu, who is embroiled in a bitter skirmish with the government over millions of rand in disputed legal fees, has been dealt another blow.

The Conversation reports that dozens of people were reportedly beheaded by the militants. Now the bloodshed has spread to Palma.

The man ejected from a FlySafair flight on Tuesday morning‚ SA distance star Stephen Mokoka‚ has declined to comment on the incident.

New York lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to legalise adult use of marijuana, which will make it the 15th state in the US to allow recreational use of the drug.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday night said SA will remain on lockdown level 1 and announced changes aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 during the Easter long weekend.

An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said.

Days after the deadly assault by rebels, six South Africans, and the remains of Adrian Nel, have been brought home

Governments in Sub-Saharan Africa should support the projected economic recovery by strengthening their policy interventions, the World Bank said, adding that a new continental free trade bloc inaugurated at the start of this year could be key.

South Africans are paying nearly 5% more for a basic food basket compared to seven months ago.

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a set of measures responding to rising anti-Asian violence, including deploying $49.5 million from Covid-19 relief funds for US community programs that help victims.

Tuesday's “family meeting” with President Cyril Ramaphosa has been met with mixed reactions following the announcement of tweaked restrictions to lockdown level 1.

Wildfires shut down South Dakota's Mount Rushmore National Memorial on Tuesday for a second day and led to the evacuation of about 500 homes.

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She had walked to Cup Foods hundreds of times before May 25, 2020. That day, Darnella Frazier made a cellphone video that convulsed a nation: a recording of a white policeman kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a Black man dying in handcuffs on a M...

Data was withheld from World Health Organisation investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday.

Police rescue divers are searching for a missing Herolds Bay teen after he was last seen having difficulty in the surf at the Gwaing River mouth in the Western Cape’s Garden Route on Tuesday.

The former public protector said corruption not only creates an uneven playing field but also steals resources.

Reuters reports the World Food Programme had flown doctors into the Palma area and ferried hundreds of people to safety, including aid workers. However, three humanitarian workers remained unaccounted for.

Reuters reports that while larger studies are needed to confirm the findings, the T cell response to Covid-19 in individuals infected with the initial viral variants appears to fully recognise the major new variants identified in the UK, SA and Brazi...

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In just two weeks, at least 1,400 smugglers have been arrested as part of a joint operation between the SA Police Service and their Zimbabwean counterparts along the Beitbridge border.

Willem Le Grange won the first prize of R175,500 and an additional R50,000 for breaking the SA record at the Giant Pumpkin Festival.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Tuesday that there were just 756 new Covid-19 cases confirmed in the previous 24 hours.

Noxolo Grootboom, who has been working for SABC for 37 years, hangs up the microphone on Tuesday night.

Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka on Tuesday led a delegation of officials to address residents on steps taken to resolve service delivery challenges on the KZN south coast.

Close to 100 vervet monkeys were confiscated from a monkey rescue centre in KwaZulu-Natal which had been operating without a permit.