While the news was celebrated on social media, some said President Cyril Ramaphosa should instead focus on addressing youth unemployment.

In a rented back room of a Potchefstroom house, the Hawks found 'an assortment of drugs, including cocaine, dagga, alcohol, crystal meth and R8,000 cash'.

Ghana hopes to receive over 18-million doses of Covid-19 vaccines before October as it struggles to contain a third wave of infections, President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a speech on Sunday.

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Sunday troops fighting the Islamic State-linked insurgency in its northern province of Cabo Delgado were gaining ground and the enemy was retreating.

A man accused of attempting to stab Mali's interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in hospital while in the custody of security services, the government said in a statement on Sunday.

SAA subsidiary Mango Airlines will enter into business rescue, SAA's interim chief executive Thomas Kgokolo said.

Ethiopia's Amhara region on Sunday called on "all young people" to take up arms against forces from the neighbouring region of Tigray, who claimed to have taken over a town in Amhara for the first time since the conflict began.

Tiger Brands announced on Monday that it has withdrawn 20-million of its canned vegetable products because of a leak in a small number of cans.

Armed bandits in Nigeria have seized a negotiator who had been sent to pay ransom money to secure the release of 136 students kidnapped two months ago from an Islamic school in the north of the African nation, the school and parents said.

The Russian navy can detect any enemy and launch an "unpreventable strike" if needed, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, weeks after a UK warship angered Moscow by passing the Crimea peninsula.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday formally named Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger to serve on a select committee investigating the Januar 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

The body of a taxi driver was found with gunshot wounds in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape at the weekend, police said.

Gauteng police recovered more than 50 unlicensed firearms, including high calibre automatic rifles, and more than 680 rounds of ammunition.

Schools in Phoenix, north of Durban, will be monitored as the third term starts on Monday.

Police and soldiers will be deployed in areas considered potential hotspots and at key economic infrastructure like shopping centres, warehouses and factories.

The lifting of the ban on alcohol sales has been met with positive responses and is dominating conversations on social media following the announcement during a national address by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday evening.

Antibody tests should not be used for diagnosis or to give people a sense of protection, says Dr Marlin McKay.

The Zimbabwean government wants to outlaw industrial action by health workers through amendments to the Health Services Act.

Boipelo Awuah, a grade 10 Northern Cape high school pupil, is SA’s youngest representative at the Games and Africa’s only representative in the women’s street skateboarding event on Monday, July 26

A behavioural linguistics company is offering a free shuttle to and from vaccination sites to try to prevent vaccine hesitation and to avoid vaccinations being seen as a luxury.

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Tatjana Schoenmaker downed loud-mouthed Olympic champion Lilly King of the US in the 100m breaststroke heats on Monday morning to claim pole position for Tuesday’s final.

President Cyril Ramaphosa moved the country to alert level 3 on July 25 2021. The move includes lifting the ban on alcohol and allowing small gatherings.

President Cyril Ramaphosa promises that there will be sufficient supply of Covid-19 vaccines until the end of the year.

SA recorded 9,718 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Sunday.

Top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that Americans who are immune compromised may end up needing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots as the US deals with increasing cases from the Delta variant of the coronavirus.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will address SA at 8.30pm on Sunday, the presidency said.

Police believe they have nabbed the man responsible for the murder of a retired Eastern Cape policeman in May.

An army officer has been arrested for allegedly being part of an armed gang that pulled off a cash-in-transit heist at a petrol station in Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape.

One person was seriously injured when a section of the Cradlestone Mall roof collapsed on Sunday.