An estimated 50 people were evicted after they illegally occupied a private property in Dunkeld.

A national task team of undertakers has threatened to shut down home affairs branches nationwide as part of their final push to force the department to amend its regulations.

It's been two weeks since the city of Palma in Mozambique was attacked by heavily armed rebel forces. The attacks continued until April 2, leaving hundreds dead, displaced or injured.

At least seven million South Africans will be inoculated by the end of June, according to a new Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan developed by an alliance of big business.

Helen Zille's new book hits bestseller list on Amazon before its release date.

Finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies are poised to back a $650bn boost in the IMF's emergency reserves on Wednesday and extend a freeze on debt payments as part of an effort to help developing countries still struggling to combat th...

Reuters reports Australia will ask the European Union to release more than 3 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, testing the claim by Brussels that claim it is not blocking shipments

Reuters reports US President Joe Biden on Tuesday moved up the Covid-19 vaccine eligibility target for all American adults to April 19, but warned that with new variants spreading “we're still in a life and death race” with the coronavirus.

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Pharmacists and doctors are permitted to make small batches of medicine containing ivermectin on prescription from a doctor.

Facebook Inc on Tuesday said a recently reported data leak potentially affecting 530 million users stemmed from the misuse of a feature in 2019 and the company had plugged the hole after identifying the problem at the time.

An Eastern Cape man allegedly beat his girlfriend to death with a stick in an argument over a cellphone during the Easter weekend.

Health workers in Limpopo have won their fight to ensure the new roster system is not implemented in the province.

Northern Cape police have commended an officer for his humanity towards three children allegedly found malnourished and physically abused.

The snake catcher also discovered 25 hatched eggs.

AfriForum’s audit of the state of North West municipalities has revealed service delivery is deteriorating in the province.

Alexandra Candler, 17, who became the first female captain of the Howick High School first cricket team, has big plans for the future.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced on Tuesday that the deal to bring in 20 million Pfizer vaccines had been signed.

The University of Oxford said on Tuesday it had paused a small UK trial testing the Covid-19 vaccine it developed with AstraZeneca Plc in children and teenagers, as it waits for more data on rare blood clotting issues in adults who received the shot.

A seventeenth person alleged to have wrought terror as part of Cape Town’s nightclub turf war appeared in court on Tuesday.

Dutch police have arrested a suspect in two separate thefts of paintings by Dutch masters Vincent Van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums that were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A day after the Minneapolis police chief appeared on the witness stand, jurors in the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murder in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, on Tuesday heard from another police witness about training to deal...

Border clashes between Ethiopia's Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official said on Tuesday, the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June.

Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments announced on Tuesday.

Throngs of prospective students - many not wearing masks - jostled for space at Durban University of Technology on Tuesday to register for an apparent hoax advertisement offering academic places.

Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist Makomborero Haruzivishe has been sentenced to 14 months in jail, a week after being convicted for inciting public violence and resisting arrest.

United Nations teams have received "worrying" reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1,000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on a town in northern Mozambique, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.

More than 1,800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, the authorities said.

Ntuthuko Shoba said he "felt the need" to help the police investigate the disappearance of Tshegofatso Pule, whose murder he is accused of plotting.

Tanzania’s new president Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Tuesday that her government would form a committee for scientific research into Covid-19, in a departure from the pandemic-sceptic policies of her predecessor John Magufuli who died last month.