The SA National Defence Force says it has procured the drug interferon for use solely by its members who are employed to assist the country in managing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu has urged the Gauteng health department to implement the recommendations contained in the report by the health ombudsman on the death of Shonisani Lethole.

"Looking back, it was a fight. You win some, you lose some. I lost that one - but I managed to not die," said Malcolm Esterhuizen after the final day of the murder trial against Blessing Bveni.

The mayor of a North West municipality who has been accused of harassment is set to face off with his accuser in court today to overturn an interim protection order granted against him.

AstraZeneca Plc will file for Japanese approval of its Covid-19 vaccine as early as mid-February, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, making it the second vaccine maker to seek approval in Japan.

"They held us down for a long time, truly the end of an era," wrote one Twitter user.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, has applied to local authorities to conduct a small domestic trial of Novavax Inc's Covid-19 vaccine, which was found to be 89.3% effective in a UK trial.

Several trucks were set alight on the R59 near Alberton on Thursday night, the Ekurhuleni metro police department said.

A film made by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny alleging President Vladimir Putin owns an opulent palace in Southern Russia has been viewed more than 100 million times, according to YouTube data on Friday.

An investigation has been launched into a video of Tshwane metro police department (TMPD) officers seemingly assaulting a man.

A World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic began meeting with Chinese scientists on Friday, and the WHO said the group plans to visit labs, markets and hospitals in Wuhan.

The Philippines will relax travel curbs on foreigners coming from more than 30 countries that have detected cases of the more contagious British variant of the coronavirus starting from next month, the presidential spokesman said on Friday.

President Joe Biden has named Robert Malley as special US envoy for Iran, a senior official said on Thursday, giving the veteran diplomat a leading role in one of most daunting and politically divisive foreign policy challenges facing the new adminis...

The Novavax vaccine has demonstrated not only high clinical efficacy against the prototype SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, but also significant clinical effectiveness against both the rapidly emerging South African and UK variants.

2020 was filled with death, dismay and depression - but there were some upsides to a year like no other.

The police commissioner of operational response services Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has overseen the destruction of 35,069 firearms which were either confiscated by the police, voluntary surrendered to or forfeited to the State.

Findings by health ombudsman Prof Malegapuru Makgoba about the conditions which led to the death of Covid-19 patient Shonisani Lethole point to a massive failure in the health care system in the country.

Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned the State Security Agency into his own intelligence structures, the Zondo commission heard this week.

SA records 555 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours, and 7,150 new infections.

The municipality says it wants to do away with load-shedding

A Pretoria-based restaurateur is livid that police have refused to release R112,000 worth of alcohol that was seized from his establishment last week.

Somali shop owners and caretakers are scared for their lives after attacks on their shops on successive days in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, last week.

SA recorded 555 new Covid-19 related deaths, with nearly three-quarters of them recorded in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.

A Covid-19 variant initially discovered in the UK in December has officially found it's way into South Africa, scientists revealed on Thursday.

Former deputy president of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Khayelihle Kenneth “KK” Mthiyane, died on Thursday - succumbing to Covid-19 just days after his wife S’thandiwe.

SA has recorded more than 125,000 excess deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, a report by the SA Medical Research Council (SAMRC) revealed on Thursday.

A man believed to be in his mid-20s was killed by lightning in Sophiatown, in the west of Johannesburg, on Thursday afternoon.

Harrowing stories have emerged from families who have lost their loved ones and are struggling to get answers

The World Health Organization's Europe director Hans Kluge said on Thursday vaccine manufacturers were working non-stop to plug shortfalls in supplies to countries struggling to contain the Covid-19 pandemic and urged them not to jostle for deliverie...

Two-and-a-half months after the second wave of Covid-19 started to take off in the Western Cape, a host of statistics on Thursday suggested it is rapidly receding.