The snaps show former president Jacob Zuma in what appears to be a medical room with a correctional services official.

The daily number of vaccinations was 191,000 on Thursday but the target is 250,000 a day by the end of next week, health deputy director-general Dr Nicholas Crisp said on Friday.

Edward Zuma had the nation LOLing with his statements in defence of his father.

The City of Johannesburg has lost 76 employees to Covid-19 up to this week.

The South African wine industry is at a tipping point, with many wine businesses, especially smaller companies and those under black ownership, facing potential closures in the next three to 12 months due to the recurring and now fifth domestic wine ...

A prominent anti-Taliban commander with private militia will help Afghan forces in their fight against Taliban insurgents to claw back control over parts of western Afghanistan including a border crossing with Iran, local officials said on Friday.

UN Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, urging the parties to resume talks.

Uganda on Thursday charged five more men linked to a Congo-based Islamist rebel group with murder, terrorism and attempted murder offences related to a foiled plot last month to assassinate a minister who is the country's former military chief.

A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week comprised 26 Colombians and two Haitian Americans, authorities said on Thursday, as the hunt went on for the masterminds of the brazen killing.

US civil rights leaders emerged from a White House meeting with President Joe Biden on Thursday vowing a "summer of activism" to battle new voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states in recent months.

The confirmed death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower rose to 64 on Thursday after crews recovered the remains of 10 more people from the concrete and steel ruins of the building.

Most British soldiers have been pulled out of Afghanistan, ending Britain's official role in a two-decades long conflict even as the Taliban are gaining ground and amid fears the departure of foreign soldiers could lead to civil war.

Israel will this year double its supply of water to Jordan and encourage Amman to export more to the Palestinians, Israeli officials said on Thursday after a source told Reuters the new Israeli prime minister had secretly met the Jordanian king.

President Vladimir Putin scrapped Russia's ban on charter flights to Egypt on Thursday, six years after suspending them for national security seasons in the aftermath of a plane crash.

SA’s vaccination programme will open up to people from 35 to 49 years old from August 1, with registrations beginning on July 15 for this age group, said the acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi.

A large group of workers, taxi drivers and unemployed people in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape have come together to form a new organisation that will contest the upcoming local government elections.

Widespread protest action affected traffic on roads throughout Durban on Friday morning.

The Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (Cata) and Congress of Democratic Taxi Association (Codeta) on Thursday agreed to an immediate ceasefire and stopping of all forms of violence and destabilisation in the industry in the Western Cape.

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi and her deputy Joe Phaahla will on Friday morning brief the media on progress made in the Covid-19 response and the vaccination rollout plan.

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a legal representative of the state capture inquiry, said Jacob Zuma was a repetitive lawbreaker who asked Dali Mpofu to help him break the law further.

If you are poor, black or foreign you are more likely to experience hate crime, a local study has revealed.

Does steaming really work or is it all in your head?

Jacob Zuma in a prison cell does not mean the rot within the ruling party will suddenly be cauterised. But it is inevitable that it will bring about some form of change in the ANC's internal dynamics, says Max du Preez in this week's Vrye Weekblad.

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Gupta family associate and businessman Iqbal Sharma is expected to apply for bail in the Bloemfontein high court on Friday.

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The police had to continually detect and remove illegal firearms from circulation as they were used to commit serious and violent crimes.

Every week, SA is deporting, on average, 100 Zimbabweans through the Beitbridge border crossing.

There were 460 Covid-19 related deaths recorded across SA in the past 24 hours, the third day in a row that the 400 mark has been breached.