Having watched his father's funeral pyre burn by a river bank close to their farm last month, Indian sugarcane grower Dattatray Bagal and his brothers had to set aside grief to count the financial cost of the coronavirus's impact on their family.

A North Korean hacking group known as Kimsuky broke into the network of South Korea's state-run nuclear think tank last month, the latest in a series of cyberattacks by the North, a South Korean lawmaker said on Friday.

The principal of a primary school in Finetown, Johannesburg, was gunned down early on Friday.

The White House will finish allocating 80 million US-made Covid-19 shots that it has pledged to ship abroad in the coming days, with shipments going out as soon as the countries are ready to receive them, a top US official said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received the her first shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, as the country steps up efforts to inoculate its population.

UK twins Minnie Walsh and Patrick Speed, separated at the same care home for more than a year, have finally been reunited.

Iranians began voting on Friday in a presidential election likely to be won by a judge fiercely loyal to the religious establishment, although many people are expected to ignore the vote due to discontent with economic hardship and hardline rule.

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said on Friday that the SANDF military health service was being deployed in Gauteng to ease the burden on health practitioners as Covid-19 surges in the province.

The opening of Vitanova connective tissue bank by Bone SA, a non-profit organisation which distributes bone and tissue products to the medical fraternity, was officiated by the country's health director-general Dr Sandile Buthelezi and transplant exp...

Zambian President Edgar Lungu also paid tribute to Kaunda and thanked him for his sacrifice in the fight against colonisation and British rule in the Southern African country.

He allegedly told the teenager he wanted to have sex ... and she refused.

'It takes me a total of five hours to walk to and back from the clinic.'

Why is it seen by some as such a mortal political sin to make deals with local capital owners? asks Vrye Weekblad.

The SA Medical Association (Sama) is the latest organisation to react to the regulations under level 3, saying the restrictions on the sale of alcohol don’t make sense.

Asanda Toyise and his abundant crop of spinach and beetroot are an inspiration for a food garden project that is flourishing in the southern Cape.

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Alleged rhino poaching kingpin Petros Sidney Mabuza was shot dead in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, on Thursday.

SA recorded 11,767 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Thursday.

National health department director-general Dr Sandile Buthelezi on Thursday pleaded with the members of the portfolio committee to allow him not to disclose the names of officials who have been found guilty in the Digital Vibes scandal.

Gunmen killed a police officer and abducted five teachers and an unknown number of students on Thursday from a school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kebbi, police and local residents said.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny mocked President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for accusing him of knowingly breaking the law when he was evacuated from Russia last year in a coma.

The SA Policing Union has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in what it calls the "feud" between police minister Bheki Cele and national commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Republican bid that had been backed by former President Donald Trump's administration to invalidate Obamacare, preserving the landmark healthcare law for the third time since its 2010 enactment.

Western Cape acting police commissioner Major-General Thembisile Patekile on Thursday announced the deployment of 58 new vehicles to various police stations and units across the province.

City Power's preliminary investigation into the cause of the electrocution of a couple in Crosby, near Mayfair in Johannesburg, has revealed that an electricity meter was bridged and the earth disconnected on the meter box inside their house.

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president who led his country for 27 years and championed Africa's struggles against apartheid and HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of 97.

'The third wave is causing immeasurable panic and misery in our schools,' Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Thursday.

'Africa is in the midst of a full-blown third wave ... We’ve seen in India and elsewhere how quickly Covid-19 can rebound and overwhelm health systems,' says WHO regional director Matshidiso Moeti.

Nelson Mandela Bay has recorded 347 new Covid-19 cases, with Walmer, Kariega and Summerstrand identified as hotspots in the metro.

'The private sector is already almost at full capacity and the public sector is already not coping. Where are the patients going to go?' said Denosa's Bongani Mazibuko.