Ride-hailing service Uber SA is offering 100,000 free rides to help school staff get vaccinated from Wednesday.

The vaccination of Gauteng teachers got under way on Wednesday with just a few glitches reported early on, education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said.

At the height of Europe’s vaccine supply crisis in March, Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was touted as a game-changer. However, two months into its rollout, the shot has the lowest uptake of all four approved vaccines.

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Nigeria's president asked parliament to approve 895.8 billion naira ($2.18 billion) as extra budgetary provision to fund the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines and military equipment

Dr Ryan Noach says there are higher peaks of new infections in Gauteng than there have been in any of the previous waves.

Hong Kong police arrested on Wednesday a columnist for pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on suspicion of conspiring to collude with a foreign country or foreign forces, in another hit to the besieged newspaper.

Singapore's high court sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for killing her Myanmar maid after more than a year of abuse that included starving, torturing and beating her.

More than 100 residents in Chatsworth, south of Durban, have been arrested for contravening the Disaster Management Act.

A Pretoria businessman turned the tables on men allegedly wanting cash from him to finish a building contract.

A Northern Cape detective who lodged R47,000 in fraudulent travel claims has lost his job for a criminal record.

Six soldiers stationed at the Beitbridge border post have been arrested for allegedly colluding with criminals in a law enforcement operation dubbed “Night Vigil”.

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula’s plea for vigilance amid rising Covid-19 infections was met with calls for a speedy vaccine rollout.

Bloomberg reports that philanthropist Mohamed Ibrahim said the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated a deterioration in democracy in Africa and the continent may require a fresh crop of statesmen to boost participation.

Study released claims SA’s township residents prefer WhatsApp as a form of communication.

Reuters reports a grand jury in Texas on Tuesday cleared eight former police officers of any criminal wrongdoing in the death of a 26-year-old black man in custody.

Johannesburg metro police have confirmed an investigation is under way into video clips showing two of its officers "harassing" and "abusing" a street vendor this past Sunday.

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Pretoria News editor Piet Rampedi has apologised to his colleagues for the damage his story on SA’s so-called “Thembisa 10” babies did to Independent Media’s reputation.

The Eastern Cape school principal accused of instructing a pupil to extract his phone from a pit latrine is appealing his dismissal by the education department.

Police on Tuesday confiscated 541kg bricks of cocaine at a container depot in Isipingo, south of Durban.

The NICD said on Tuesday that there were 297 deaths and more than 11,000 new Covid-19 infections reported in the past 24 hours.

A police officer attached to the Limpopo Hawks office is in hot water after his nephew allegedly shot himself in the head with the officer's service gun.

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A Cape Town clinic was temporarily closed on Tuesday after a fatal shooting outside.

The eThekwini municipality has been ordered by court to provide at least 43 buses within a month, which city bus service provider Tansnat says it needs to service 150,000 passengers daily.