Most readers said you "shouldn't be bribed to protect yourself and others".

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 1,297 on Sunday as rescuers scrambled to find survivors before a tropical storm hits.

Australia's biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the Covid-19 pandemic on Monday as troops and police set up roadblocks to limit the movement of people, while Melbourne faced a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of lockdown.

Taliban insurgents entered Kabul on Sunday and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan, bringing the Islamist militants closer to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion.

At least five people were killed in Kabul airport as hundreds of people tried to forcibly enter planes leaving the Afghan capital, witnesses told Reuters.

The Bench Marks Foundation says little progress has been made in bringing those implicated in the killing of 34 miners in Marikana nine years ago to book.

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Gauteng police have shut down more than 40 illegal liquor outlets in the province and arrested more than 1,000 suspects for serious crimes.

Some of the country's doctors have raised concerns about a new online portal that's been introduced by the HPCSA, saying that the uploading of skills development certificates could cause an administrative nightmare and delay doctor registrations in t...

Unvaccinated people who previously had Covid-19 are more than twice as likely to be reinfected than people who were fully vaccinated after initially contracting the coronavirus.

Two armed men robbed several staff members of a Randfontein school on Friday, the department of education said.

Haiti's hospitals were swamped on Sunday by thousands of injured residents after a devastating earthquake the day before killed at least 1,297 people as authorities raced to bring doctors to the worst-hit areas before a major storm hits.

The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as US-led forces departed and Western nations scrambled on Monday to evacuate their citizens.

Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has defeated incumbent Edgar Lungu in Zambia's presidential election, the electoral commission said on Monday when releasing the final results from 156 constituencies, barring one.

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Cuba’s public health minister said on Sunday efforts were under way to restart the country’s main oxygen factory which had broken down even as the death toll from Covid-19 on Saturday reached 98, equal to the pandemic record.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi has taken a swipe at the NPA for asking that the former president be taken for a second medical observation.

Afghanistan's Taliban entered the capital Kabul on Sunday and Western-backed President Ashraf Ghani left the country, with the insurgents saying they were seeking complete power.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 on Sunday as rescue workers scrambled to find survivors buried under buildings a day after the 7.2 magnitude quake and as a tropical storm bore down on the Caribbean nation.

The NPA says the death of Johan van der Walt, the key witness in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal case, will not affect proceedings.

KwaZulu-Natal is in its third wave of Covid-19 infections, premier Sihle Zikalala confirmed on Sunday.

Warmer weather is on its way with temperatures expected to start picking up from Monday after large parts of the country experienced icy winds, snow and rain over the weekend.

The Hawks have arrested two suspects for alleged PPE tender fraud amounting to more than R14m.

All 16- and 17-year-olds in England will be offered their first Covid-19 vaccine dose by August 23, according to a target set by British health secretary Sajid Javid.

A large majority of readers are against a proposal to reduce social distancing in schools.

The killing of 23 people returning from a Muslim festival in Nigeria was a premeditated ambush for which suspects have already been arrested, authorities said on Sunday.

At least 22 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early on Sunday, the health minister said.

A total of 120 shacks were destroyed in a fire that broke out on Sunday morning in Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay, Cape Town.

A Western Cape husband who captured the hearts of South Africans when he played his accordion in the cold outside the hospital where his wife was being treated for Covid-19 says he is devastated after her death.