Teachers who arrived at Pinetown Civic Centre, outside Durban, for their Covid-19 vaccines on Wednedsay, claim they were turned away because they did not have “Persal” - Personnel and Salary System -  numbers.

Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino, the son of two of the Southeast Asian country's democracy icons, died in a Manila hospital on Thursday of renal failure as a result of diabetes, his family said.

A man who hitched a ride on the back of a heavy duty vehicle unbeknown to the driver, was killed when another truck crashed into them on the N3 highway near Van Reenen's Pass on Wednesday night.

An Indonesian court jailed hardline Islamic cleric Rizieq Shihab on Thursday for four years for spreading false information in a video saying he was healthy despite having tested positive for Covid-19.

The mass Covid-19 vaccination site at Cape Town International Convention Centre will administer 750,000 jabs over six months.

17,493 new cases were reported nationally with 10,806 being in Gauteng.

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Nqaba Bhanga has urged residents in new Covid-19 hotspots to emulate the behavioural change that has been adopted by residents of Motherwell.

A man who tried to smuggle US dollars worth around R2m out of the country has forfeited the money to the SA Revenue Service and earned a criminal record, but escaped jail time.

The Smart Mini-Grid, which has been developed by the university’s start-up company PeCo Power, will provide essential power to homes that don’t have access to electricity

John McAfee, the creator of the eponymous antivirus software, was found dead Wednesday in prison outside Barcelona. He was 75.

More than 48,000 teachers and school staff were inoculated on the first day of the vaccination rollout program aimed at staff in the basic education sector with KwaZulu-Natal recording the highest number of jabs administered.

WhatsApp users will soon be able to view a shop on the app so they can chat with a business before buying something.

Germany’s publishers' and booksellers' association has awarded the Zimbabwean author, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga the German Book Trade's 2021 Peace Prize.

A Brazilian Senate committee on Wednesday formally approved a request to call representatives of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify in an ongoing probe into the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

'Some patients will expire before we even find a bed for them. That is how bad things are. This is the reality of the situation,' Prof Rudo Mathivha, director of critical care medicine at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, told eNCA.

More than three-quarters of teenage girls in the Eastern Cape are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), a new study has found, revealing for the first time the prevalence of the cancer-causing virus among school-going girls in that province.

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Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are deadlocked on who should replace Tanzania’s Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax for the post of SADC executive secretary.

So far, more than 2,400ha of commercial plantations and natural veld have been destroyed, the department of forestry, fisheries and the environment said.

Dimension Data and Japanese parent company NTT have provided all documents required by former IT specialist Andile Ngcaba in his equal-pay court battle against the companies, the high court in Johannesburg held on Wednesday.

Western Cape police have launched a manhunt for those responsible for murdering seven people in Gugulethu on Wednesday afternoon.

Nearly 17,500 Covid-19 cases were recorded in SA in the past 24 hours, with Gauteng recording a provincial high of 10,806 new infections.

Ethiopia's parliamentary polls, held on Monday, were conducted in a "credible" manner, the African Union's election observer mission said on Wednesday.

Dozens of militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have laid down their weapons and surrendered, the first to do so since President Felix Tshisekedi announced martial law to tackle worsening security in two eastern provinces.

The legal defence team of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday made public for the first time the full text of a Russian court ruling that outlawed his political network as "extremist" on June 9.

Four police officers who had gone missing after a militant attack in Burkina Faso on Monday have been found dead, raising the police death toll to 15, police sources said on Wednesday.

A month ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, the city has another reason to celebrate - giant panda Shin Shin has given birth to twin cubs at Ueno Zoo, the first panda birth there in four years.

Secondary school drop-outs in Tanzania will be offered the opportunity to resume studies in alternative colleges, the government said on Tuesday, part of a shift away from a disputed policy under which pregnant girls were expelled from school.

An air strike killed at least 43 people in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia's Tigray region on Tuesday, a medical official said , after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of the regional capital Mekelle.

The KwaZulu-Natal government has given the crowd digging for stones - initially believed to be diamonds - at KwaHlathi until Wednesday to leave the site.