Western Cape residents must maintain non-violence and not lose hope during ongoing unrest in parts of KZN and Gauteng, premier Alan Winde said to mark Nelson Mandela Day on Sunday.

US President Joe Biden on Monday will host Jordan's King Abdullah, a key US ally in a volatile region, in what will be the first of three face-to-face meetings with leaders from the Middle East expected soon.

Australian authorities on Monday said Victoria state will extend a Covid-19 lockdown beyond Tuesday despite a slight drop in new infections as the country's two biggest cities fight to stop the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant.

Perseus the homeless cat has three new legs. Engineers and vets made his implants out of titanium and plastic paws through 3D printing technology.

South Korea's military has recorded in biggest cluster of Covid-19 infections to date, with more than 80% of personnel aboard a destroyer on anti-piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden testing positive.

Two more members of a Texas Democratic Party delegation of lawmakers who fled their state delaying passage of what they say are restrictive voting laws have tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Sunday.

Forces in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have released around 1,000 government soldiers captured during recent fighting, the head of its ruling party said, as both sides prepared for a showdown over contested land in the West of the region.

Two-thirds of people in Japan do not believe the country can host a safe and secure Olympics amid a fresh wave of coronavirus infections, according to a survey published by the Asahi newspaper just four days before the opening ceremony in Tokyo.

Power is expected to be restored in parts of Pretoria East by midday on Monday.

The effects of the past week’s unrest and destruction of property will have dire consequences for the KwaZulu-Natal capital, where residents have watched for years how their city has been ruined.

Community vaccine sites opened in Durban on Monday after unrest shut most healthcare facilities last week.

More than 50 schools have been damaged, torched and looted during the unrest that has gripped KwaZulu-Natal.

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Residents in Phoenix, north of Durban, took up arms to protect their families and community violence and looting gripped areas in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

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Police on Sunday dismissed reports that dozens of bodies had been found in a burnt-out store on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast.

Mapisa-Nqakula said it was her view that the military was not seeing signs of a coup or insurgency, but rather a 'counter-revolution creeping in, in the form of criminality and thuggery'.

3,407 suspects have been arrested on various charges since the violence erupted over a week ago, with only one suspect granted bail.

'Our young democracy and our movement are going through, at the moment, a very difficult time. Our survival as a constitutional democracy, committed to the rule of law, is under threat,' Ramaphosa said on Sunday night.

SA recorded 183 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total number dead from the Covid-19 pandemic to 66,859 to date.

While there was a marked decrease in looting incidents in KwaZulu-Natal, there were several sporadic incidents on Sunday, including the Sequence Logistics warehouse in Hammarsdale outside Pietermaritzburg being looted again.

The Biovac bio-pharmaceutical company in Cape Town said there was no evidence that foul play led to a fire at its factory in Pinelands, which produces Covid-19 vaccines, on Sunday morning.

A KwaZulu-Natal family is reeling after days of searching for their loved one, a provincial public order police officer, ended with a burnt body found in the back of the officer’s car in one of the epicentres of violence and looting this week.

Repeated attacks and the torching of a new warehouse in KwaZulu-Natal's Umhlanga area have sparked concerns of air pollution and toxic spills in the area.

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Paramedics and police have discovered the body of an alleged looter under a collapsed guard house rammed by a truck during riots in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal.

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Snow is expected to fall over the high lying areas of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Drakensberg this week.