Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of rape and sexual assault involving five women in Los Angeles ahead of a second trial.

As supermarket teams try to repair and restock their damaged stores, Pick n Pay Group CEO Pieter Boone on Thursday urged the government to reopen liquor sales to help sustain their businesses.

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng and nine other former executives are expected to appear before the Special Tribunal as the public broadcaster and the Special Investigating Unit seek to recover R2.5m that was allegedly inappropriately paid to a numb...

Ingredients to produce the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines will be obtained from facilities in Europe and the manufacturing of finished doses will start in 2022.

At least 17 Bengali migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Wednesday.

Hong Kong police arrested five people on Thursday on suspicion of conspiring to publish "seditious material" with the intent of inciting public hatred towards the Chinese-ruled city's government among children.

Correctional services minister Ronald Lamola says no-one who took part in acts of criminality will evade justice and some could face terrorism or related charges

A 23-year-old student from the University of the Free State has been arrested for allegedly inciting public violence, the NPA said.

China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organisation (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.

As SA's liquor industry counts the cost of last week’s looting and four booze bans in lockdown, it's appealing to the government for a resumption of trade and a collaboration to detail a path to economic recovery.

Readers are divided over whether the records should have been made public.

Acting presidency minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the government has long deliberated on the issue of basic income grants.

As temperatures dipped below zero throughout the country, one tourism establishment in the southern Drakensberg was delighted to awaken to a winter wonderland.

Inspired by her late father's career, Mona decided to join the military and the first group of Saudi women soldiers to work in Islam's holiest sites, where they are helping secure the haj annual pilgrimage.

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On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organisers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former prime minister Shinzo Abe, a memorable advocate for the Tokyo Games, would skip the showpiece ev...

Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a stark reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe.

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The City of Johannesburg has called on religious communities to align each official residence to the church where the office-bearer officiates.

Mali's interim President Assimi Goita, a special forces colonel who orchestrated two coups in the last year, said he escaped unharmed after an assailant attempted to stab him during prayers at a mosque in the capital Bamako on Tuesday.

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By 2050, a projected 1.5 billion people on the continent will call cities home, more than double the current number, the authors said.

The department of health has confirmed that issues around the Johnson & Johnson vaccine have been resolved and the country will start receiving more vaccines from the manufacturer.

Officials say vaccines are highly effective against the Delta variant, now the dominant variant worldwide, though the study reiterated that one shot of the vaccines is not enough for high protection.

The flu vaccination provides protection for the strain of flu that is expected in each year's flu season. It will not protect you against Covid-19.

An investigation by the Competition Tribunal found the Fruit Stop branch in Wonderboom, Pretoria, "charged excessive prices" for raw ginger between April and June 2020.

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Mike attended Mathungela Primary School and later worked at various factories across Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal.

The health department says it’s concerned about the likelihood of increased Covid-19 infections as a result of the looting spree that took place in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in the past 10 days.