Chinese rescuers pulled 11 gold miners to safety on Sunday, 14 days after they were trapped by an underground explosion, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Dutch airline KLM will keep operating long-haul flights, including for vaccine distribution, after agreeing with the government on softer demands for returning aircrews to carry out rapid Covid-19 tests.

A gold miner was rescued in northern China on Sunday morning and rushed to hospital for treatment, state broadcaster CCTV reported, with footage showing the exhausted miner, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of a mine shaft.

After being hit by the pandemic, oil companies in SA are unlikely to upgrade refineries to cut sulphur emissions unless the government allows them to pass the costs on to consumers or offers other support, the SA Petroleum Industry Association (SAPIA...

The coastal city of Beira in Mozambique, which houses one of the country's most important ports, has seen mild damage to property and flooding after tropical cyclone Eloise made landfall early on Saturday, an official said.

People fear Covid-19. But many South Africans are also scared of the vaccines that have been proved to offer protection against the virus.

Revered trombonist Jonas Gwangwa has died, the presidency announced on Saturday.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa said there are no action heroes after four of his cabinet ministers succumbed to Covid-19 within a week.

Larry King, who quizzed thousands of world leaders, politicians and entertainers for CNN and other news outlets in a career spanning more than six decades, has died at age 87, CNN reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the family.

A Cape Town surfer was injured after colliding with rocks in Kommetjie on Friday.

Former Nelson Mandela Bay municipal spokesperson Roland Williams will spend the next four years in jail after he failed to refund an insurance company he defrauded.

The specialised commercial crimes court in Port Elizabeth has given an admin clerk a bookkeeping lesson.

A Port Elizabeth police officer has been arrested for illegally dealing in copper using a police vehicle.

The ‘King of Cabaret’ Alvon Collison, who played Pharaoh in more than 3,000 performances of the acclaimed theatre production Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat, died on Saturday.

Two men who attempted to steal fuel from a Transnet pipeline in Mpumalanga got badly burnt — and arrested.

A fugitive drug dealer who skipped bail and fled the country more than three years ago after failing to appear in court in Secunda was rearrested this week while trying to re-enter SA on a flight from Nigeria.

Cape Town police have arrested 14 suspects, including six teenagers, for allegedly robbing an e-hailing taxi driver in Browns Farm on Friday morning.

The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice.

A powerful storm approaching Mozambique was upgraded on Friday to a tropical cyclone, on course to deluge an area already submerged by floodwaters and still recovering from Cyclone Idai less than two years ago.

Central African Republic declared a state of emergency on Thursday to help it crack down on armed groups, as the UN' envoy to CAR called for the deployment of many more peacekeepers in response to a recent surge in attacks.

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The first case of the SA coronavirus variant was identified in Portugal on Friday, health institute Ricardo Jorge told Lusa news agency, as the country struggles to contain a crippling surge in cases partially blamed on the rapid spread of the Britis...

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize reports 11,761 new Covid-19 cases and 575 more coronavirus related deaths, taking the total number of fatalities past 40,000

SA billion Johann Rupert “did not jump any queue” by getting the Covid-19 vaccine in Switzerland.

FNB processed the last batch of its cheques on Friday, ending an era of one of the oldest and most treasured payment methods used by SA banks and financial services institutions globally.

Many countries continue to bar travellers from SA, as they implement renewed lockdowns and travel restrictions due to new coronavirus variants.

Public schools will officially open from February 15, but private schools will be allowed to open two weeks earlier.

The search for a missing two-year-old girl resumed on Friday after the vehicle her mother had been driving plunged down the notorious Voëlklip cliff near Herold's Bay in the Western Cape on Thursday.

The KZN government has put disaster teams on high alert with Eloise expected to make landfall in SA from Sunday

Netcare group CEO Dr Richard Friedland has paid tribute to the four healthcare workers and pilot who died when their helicopter crashed in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday.