Pietermaritzburg shoppers might want to watch their step after a highly venomous baby snake was rescued in in the CBD by local snake expert, Dean Boswell on Tuesday.

Government hospitals are easing the burden of private institutions packed with Covid-19 patients.

The founder of Gents Pride Barber Shop was named the winner in the 2020 Bump Patrol Africa battle of the barbers, the same year he was crowned the Duel Master at the Duel of the Barbers in Stellenbosch for a "blitz fade" he cut in 58 seconds.

A 24-year-old man has appeared briefly in court in connection with the murder of the wife and daughter-in-law of former Eastern Cape police commissioner Wilson Toba.

A 6-year-old boy from Govan Mbeki in Port Elizabeth has been crushed to death by a concrete stormwater pipe while playing on church grounds.

A 16-year-old suspect has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl who had been swimming in a dam in Booysen Park in Bethelsdorp, Port Elizabeth.

An argument over two men who allegedly jumped a queue at a business in Isipingo in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday led to a shooting which left one person dead and two injured.

South Africa recorded 9 780 new Covid-19 infections and 839 new Covid-19-related deaths – the second-highest daily death toll to date – taking the confirmed fatalities to 38 288.

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Well-known South African HIV/Aids researcher and CEO of the KwaZulu-Natal Children's Hospital Trust, Dr Arthi Ramkissoon, succumbed to Covid-19 on Monday.

The DA and UDM say Nqaba Bhanga will contest for the mayoral position and win when the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro convenes elections for the new mayor.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has dashed the hopes of businesspeople who want a piece of the pie during the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out.

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Cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams said the IMC would assist with "the quick decision-making from all the relevant departments that contribute towards the smooth roll-out of the vaccination programme".

Heineken suspended a R6 billion expansion project in August 2020, and is now restructuring its South Africa operations.

According to Ithuba, the first multimillion-rand winner of the year - a man in his 30s - reported to the National Lottery operator offices on Tuesday to claim his fortune.

The broke Amathole District Municipality will now pay its employees their salaries after intervention from national and local government.

The staff shortage at Steve Biko Academic Hospital's triage area have been sorted out after 33 nurses were employed on an urgent basis.

One person has been killed and two others injured after a 45-year-old man opened fire on them alleging that they had jumped the R350 grant queue outside a Post Office in Isipingo.

Administration of vaccines will be managed very carefully through registration cards and scanners, health department says.