Hong Kong Secretary of Justice Teresa Cheng reiterated on Saturday that Britain had no rights over the city under the joint declaration that laid the blueprint for how the city would be ruled after its 1997 reunification with China.

The World Health Organisation-led team investigating the origins of Covid-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients.

More than 200,000 people have fled fighting in the Central African Republic (CAR) since violence erupted over a December election result, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday, with nearly half crossing into the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Freedom Under Law (FUL) lhas won the first round of its battle to have retired judge Nkola Motata impeached.

A middle-aged man was found hanging upside down from high voltage electrical powerlines on the railway line in Rondebult in Germiston on Friday morning, Ekurhuleni emergency services said.

Taiwan's government on Saturday reported the island's first death from Covid-19 since May, as it battles a small and unusual outbreak of locally transmitted cases.

As the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, resources are being sucked away from the fight against a host of debilitating diseases that affect 1.7 billion of the poorest people on the planet, medical experts have warned.

To date, 1,284,781 recoveries have been recorded in South Africa at a recovery rate of 89%.

SA recorded 528 Covid-19 related deaths and 6,141 new infections in the past 24 hours.

The SA Parastatals and Tertiary Institutions Union (Saptu) has expressed concern over the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration's (CCMA) decision to terminate the service of more than 500 part-time commissioners due to budget cuts.

Ster-Kinekor said its board of directors took the decision in an attempt to facilitate the rehabilitation of the company.

Almost a month after suspected drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay, 62, was murdered at his home in Shallcross, south of Durban, police have swooped and arrested three alleged drug kingpins, one facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

Equal education says the R431m used by the Gauteng education department on the deep-cleaning of schools could have been used to build five new facilities in the province.

The high court in Johannesburg has dismissed convicted killer Mulalo Sivhidzho’s appeal against her sentence and conviction for her involvement in the murder of her husband, Avhatakali Netshisaulu.

J&J said on Friday that its single-dose vaccine was 66% effective in preventing Covid-19 in a large global trial against multiple variants which will give health officials another weapon to tackle the coronavirus.

The Competition Tribunal has found the firms guilty of fixing prices, dividing markets and tendering collusively in the market for supplying, installing and maintaining fire control and protection systems.

As the red, blood-like waters which submerged the town of Deben in the Northern Cape began subsiding, one resident has found in it a message from the universe.

Tragedy struck on Friday when a 44-year-old father, his 14-year-old son and their dog - believed to have attempted to save them - drowned at La Mercy Beach, north of Durban.

The SA Weather Service warned of more possible disruptive rainfall across Gauteng, bringing with it a storm of frustration on social media.

For the next two months, 5,000 buses and taxis belonging to 112 associations in the greater Durban area will be sanitised every day.

Former president Jacob Zuma has distanced himself from reports making the rounds on social media that he was heading to Russia for medical treatment next week.

Mark Stoxreiter, the pilot killed in a helicopter crash last week, will always be remembered for his kindness and great sense of humour.

Telecoms regulator said on Friday it will challenge a court application by MTN Group seeking to review or scrap the regulator's auction process for awarding spectrum vital for rolling out 5G technology.

There's a prize pool of $30,000 up for grabs. At the current Dollar to Rand exchange rate, that's roughly R450,000.

Remember Biomutant? I’d almost entirely forgotten about THQ Nordic’s post-ecopocalyptic kung-fu RPG featuring adorable fuzzy-wuzzy furthings until now too.

A 50-year-old man from Turffontein, south of Joburg, says he will use his winnings to finally buy his own home.

Sex doesn’t just sell in the future, it grabs your eyeballs and pries them open with a dildo crowbar as your brain is bombarded by all manner of lewdvertising, suggestive fashion, and straight-up gland-togland combat being offered in the streets.

A 29-year-old man arrested in connection with the murders of Chantelle Ash and their nine-month-old daughter Tasneem at a Limpopo lodge two weeks ago is expected to make a formal bail application on Friday.

The idea that a mother could reach a point of desperation so severe that she would consider taking the life of her own child is horrifying -and for many, almost unbelievable.

Only 37% of public schools are ready to reopen on February 15, and only 47% are confident of complying with Covid-19 protocols, according to the National School Readiness Survey.