Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu has admitted that terminating relief programmes, including the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant, will increase hunger, exacerbate social and political stress and slow down economic recovery.

Two people died and six were missing after an accident in a coal mine in central China, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Saturday.

Having gone as low as 0.5 at the beginning of February, SA's latest Covid-19 reproduction number is now 1.33.

Australia's second-most populous state Victoria on Saturday reported a small increase in locally acquired Covid-19 cases as authorities hunted for the source of a highly infectious variant that has been detected in a new cluster.

United Airlines said on Thursday would buy ultra-fast jets from Denver-based aerospace company Boom Supersonic, bringing back supersonic passenger travel which died out with the retirement of the Anglo-French Concorde in 2003.

A bus veered off the roadway and rolled down an embankment in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning, leaving one person dead and 50 injured.

Helicopter pilot Stewart Graham was "living the dream in SA" and had been engaged for only four months when he took off on his final flight.

When paramedics in Gauteng want to monster their shift, they know which energy drink to glug.

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SA recorded 5,668 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours - the third day in a row that the 5,000-mark has been breached.

Pieter van Zyl was nabbed while towing a 3.7m boat, which had pure cocaine worth an estimated R400m hidden in its hull.

Facebook Inc on Friday suspended former US President Donald Trump from its platform until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.

Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.

The social development department in Limpopo has raised concerns over the number of new Covid-19 infections at two private old age homes in the Waterberg district.

Koeberg nuclear power station general manager Velaphi Ntuli has been suspended over performance-related issues.

Zimbabwe's government said on Friday citizens should not panic because it had enough Covid-19 vaccines for those needing a second shot after some centres ran out of doses this week and turned people away.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed legislation that bars members of "extremist" organisations from running for office, a move allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny say aims to sideline them from parliamentary election this yea...

A nine-year old Asiatic lion has died from the coronavirus in a state-run zoo on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Chennai, the zoo said on Friday.

The weather system that caused the cold snap over the past few days has moved out of the country, says the SA Weather Service.

Teachers, cleaners and other support staff at the more than 25,000 public schools in SA will be vaccinated against Covid-19 from Wednesday.

A company and its director, accused of giving expired food to the military during the lockdown, have been cleared of any wrongdoing after the charges were withdrawn.

Investigators have their eye on two 14m-long Persian carpets imported from Kashmir in India, among many other luxury items.

The rate of hospital admissions as a result of the increase in Covid-19 cases was a cause for concern, Gauteng premier David Makhura said on Friday.

The SA soldier killed in a “friendly fire” incident while on a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been named as Private Simanga Arthur Khuselo.

France said on Thursday it was suspending its joint military operations with local troops in Mali as part of efforts to pressure the military junta there to restore a civilian-led government.

Egypt has sent a convoy of engineers and building equipment to Gaza after orders from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to begin reconstruction in the enclave after recent Israeli-Palestinian fighting, Egyptian state television reported on Friday.

Lucas Phasha was convicted and sentenced for hacking three of his children to death with an axe and bludgeoning his last-born to death with a rock in February 2020.

Police were forced to close part of Durban's N2 freeway on Friday following a horrific crash involving seven vehicles which left two people dead and three seriously injured.

Judicial Service Commission spokesperson Doris Tshepe said no decision was taken on Friday about suspension and would not be drawn further on what happened during deliberations.

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