[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Four days after South Africa's top court ordered former president Jacob Zuma to appear before a commission of inquiry investigating the widespread corruption which spread through parts of the government during his time in off...

[SAnews.gov.za] With a decline in new COVID-19 infections, hospital admissions and deaths, Government has decided to ease a number of restrictions under Adjusted level 3.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has officially received its first shipment of one million Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

[spotlight] Treatment of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa has been transformed over the last decade. Most people with DR-TB no longer have to take daily injections and treatment is often completed in nine months, compared ...

[The Conversation Africa] I began to write this essay in January 2020, what feels like years ago. The issues I wanted to raise are no longer even partly hidden. The effects of racism on the body, especially the black body, are in plain sight.

[GroundUp] The South African Medical Research Council (MRC) has been publishing excess deaths weekly during the Covid-19 pandemic. We and others have been stating that the excess deaths are mostly due to Covid-19, and not the lockdown restrictions. T...

[spotlight] The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) this week announced that doctors will be able to apply for access to the experimental COVID-19 treatment ivermectin in terms of section 21 of the Medicines Act. section 21 is...

[spotlight] A painting shows a sick man inside a hand sanitiser bottle, surrounded with human skulls. The painting is the work of Xolani Sivunda, an artist based in Mfuleni, a township near Khayelitsha in Cape town.

[Daily Maverick] Foreign nationals continue to face an uncertain future in South Africa as anti-foreigner behaviour and violence grow.

[Govt of SA] As of 1pm on 29 January, the Western Cape has 14 658 active Covid-19 infections with a total of 265 789 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 240 939 recoveries.

[Govt of SA] Amendment of the normal payment process, which include the submission of continuations forms (COPS)

[Govt of SA] Faith based leaders pledge support for Western Cape Government's vaccine implementation plan

[Govt of SA] With evidence being led at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture (Zondo Commission), the Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Mr Senzo Mchunu, has received a number of calls and expressions of thoughts, with people ...

[Govt of SA] Many people who applied for the Covid SRD relief grant are under the impression that today 29 January 2021 is the last day that they will be able to collect their grant. As a result, beneficiaries and flocking to Post Office branches in ...

[Daily Maverick] Chris Hani has a unique place in liberation history, a martyr not dissimilar to Che Guevara, and like Guevara, his qualities tend to be lost in the romantic fervour that attaches to his name. It is important that we clearly identify ...

[Daily Maverick] The Absa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) ticked up in January, but remains subdued, and the signals from its sub-indices are a mixed bag.

[Govt of SA] I welcome the announcement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the easing of restrictions as it offers a much-needed injection of optimism for the recovery of the wine sector and thousands of jobs.

[Govt of SA] Water storage in the Northern Cape Province is currently at 106.2% full or at 155.4million cubic meters. The full water storage capacity of the province is 147.3 million cubic meters. Water levels of the two largest rivers in the Norther...

[Govt of SA] As of today, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa is 1 456 309 with 2 548 new cases identified since the last report.

[Daily Maverick] A charge of bribery has been laid against a Patriotic Alliance member after the Democratic Alliance claims it found proof that there were attempts to bribe councillors not to vote for Nqaba Bhanga as the Nelson Mandela Bay executive ...

[Daily Maverick] The value of net new mortgage loan advances is the latest in a string of key economic indicators exhibiting a V-shaped economic recovery from the steep and sudden decline in GDP of the second quarter of 2020, induced by the Covid-19 ...

[Daily Maverick] Over the past year, many families - especially in rural areas - have been denied the chance to view the bodies of their loved ones, which have been wrapped in multiple layers of plastic, leading, in some cases, to the wrong person be...

[Govt of SA] The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is embracing technology in a big way and has finally launched its highly anticipated E-Compliance Certificate online system.

[SAnews.gov.za] The South African Weather Services (SAWS) has issued a Yellow Level 4 warning for disruptive rain expected to affect four provinces on Tuesday.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has launched its highly anticipated e-Compliance Certificate online system, which will enable employers, small businesses and entrepreneurs to apply for a UIF compliance certificate without leavin...

[Daily Maverick] In an affidavit to the Constitutional Court, the Public Servants' Association and seven other unions want to force the government to pay salary increases, arguing that it cannot walk away from a collective agreement without any conse...

[Daily Maverick] The state of our democracy has been partly shaped by the failures of the governing party, by populist personalities and the inability of our social compact to comprehensively confront the challenges that underpin structural poverty, ...

[Daily Maverick] The enactment of the Political Party Funding Act is good news for democracy in South Africa. The benefits far outweigh the costs of non-disclosure of private funding. However, its success will depend on its implementation to the lett...

[Daily Maverick] Despite threats of disconnection, and many pages of legal rulings, the debt of cash-strapped Eastern Cape municipalities to Eskom has doubled to R2bn in the past year as the slow financial collapse of local government in the province...

[Daily Maverick] For perhaps a month, we had the naivete to think that with the high vaccine efficacy of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, we were ahead of this virus. Sitting pretty, so to speak: 95% effectiveness in overall disease and nearly 1...