While there are challenges, 'there is sufficient product and government is working to secure the movement' of petrol and diesel, says the state.

eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said malls in townships and rural areas have been destroyed since the unrest started last Friday.

A two-year-old girl survived unharmed after her mother threw her to safety as they escaped a burning high-rise building in Durban during protests.

Santaco has split social media with its calls to defend businesses from being looted.

It's so easy to pass away from using drugs nowadays, just because of the amount of fentanyl out there.

If you are suffering mild symptoms it should be safe, but if you are struggling with severe or upper respiratory symptoms it is better to postpone and go test for Covid-19.

Heavy rain and once-in-a-generation floods on Wednesday night caused the collapse of six houses in Germany's western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, leaving several people missing and many stranded on rooftops, police said on Thursday.

The US has no reason to doubt the authenticity of a video showing the Taliban killing Afghan commandos as they try to surrender, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Wednesday, calling the act 'atrocious'.

"I feel like committing suicide because my livelihood has been taken away from me. I was sitting crying, helpless because I can't do anything."

At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help them understand Christian scripture: the first Bible translated into Nigerian pidgin.

Google Maps has added a live tracker function for Gauteng residents to avoid riots and looting that are happening in and around the province.

The clock is ticking as President Joe Biden welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House on Thursday with both hoping to rebuild ties badly frayed under former President Donald Trump.

Cuba announced on Wednesday it was temporarily lifting restrictions on the amount of food and medicine travelers could bring into the country in an apparent small concession to demands by protesters who took to the streets last weekend.

Congolese teen Candy has learned the rules of the streets since he started selling aphrodisiacs and illegal opiate-based cigarettes to drinkers in the gang-plagued capital Kinshasa.

Ethiopia's war in the northern region of Tigray looked set to intensify on Wednesday as the prime minister signalled the end of a government ceasefire and the neighbouring Amhara region said it would go on the offensive against Tigrayan forces.

Some 40,000 firms have been affected in the eThekwini municipality alone, with damages in the area put at R15bn.

'Large, disruptive' measles outbreaks in Afghanistan, Africa.

A critical medicines shortage in KwaZulu-Natal is inevitable, given that scores of pharmacies have been totally looted and a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in the province has been destroyed, along with two massive distribution warehouses.

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Taxi drivers guarding Vosloorus Mall on Gauteng's East Rand opened fire on looters with live ammunition.

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More than 130 people appeared in various Johannesburg courts in relation to the ongoing violent protests and rampant looting.

Shoprite condemned the unrest and violence which affected the livelihoods and lives of millions of law-abiding citizens, and which targeted businesses that contributed to the economy and job creation.

On Tuesday, Moloi said he was not looting and that the incident had been taken out of context - but a second video suggests otherwise.

The number of South Africans who died in the latest week analysed by the "excess deaths" team at the SA Medical Research Council was up more than 7% on the previous week.

There were just 387 new Covid-19 cases recorded in KwaZulu-Natal in the past 24 hours, as the consequences of the ongoing looting and violence continued.

Widespread riots continued across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng on Wednesday, with shops looted and some properties torched.

A state of emergency gives the president extreme powers to issue regulations. It’s almost like government by decree, says De Vos.

Sasria has given assurance that it will be able to provide for the expected claims.