The 2022 online admissions website for state schools in Gauteng will shut down for 48 hours.

Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Mpofu said South Africans must fight against forgetting what he called a deliberate massacre of the mineworkers because they were "poor, black and wanted a living wage”.

The worst performing category of tenants from a payment performance perspective are those in the more affordable rental market.

Local production of Covid-19 rapid tests will speed up the country's response to the pandemic by identifying and responding to cluster areas timeously.

Three children, 20 women and five men including the driver were killed after a horror bus accident on the N2 between East London and Butterworth on Monday afternoon.

New Zealand on Tuesday reported its first case of COVID-19 in the community in six months after a person tested positive in its largest city of Auckland.

China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Tuesday with warships and fighter jets exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island, in what the country's armed forces said was as a response to "external interference" and "provocations".

A 21-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly stabbed his friend to death during a fight over alcohol at the weekend, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

Three people were shot dead and one man was critically injured in a shooting on the N3 near the N17 split in Alberton, southeast of Johannesburg, paramedics said.

Doctors in Haiti on Monday battled in makeshift tents to save the lives of hundreds of injured people, including young children and the elderly, outside hospitals overwhelmed by an earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people.

Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan restarted early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.

Currently, children under the age of 18 and people with a history of severe reactions to any component of the Covid-19 vaccine should not get the jab.

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It is hoped the local manufacture of the kits will reduce the reliance on imports, with positive implications for access and pricing.

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President Joe Biden said on Monday the mission of the United States in Afghanistan was never supposed to be nation building as he defended his decision to pull out US troops from the country.

Emergency medical services attended to two separate rescues in the same suburb just hours apart in Tzaneen, Limpopo, on Monday.

A group of more than 40 individuals and 16 organisations has called on acting National Assembly speaker Lechesa Tsenoli to appoint an impartial inquiry into the Commission on Gender Equality.

In the chaos and uncertainty of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, legislator Farzana Kochai says she fears for her life first and her freedom next, but that Afghans will not tolerate a return to the harshest forms of Islamist rule.

The high court in Johannesburg has declared that Eskom's award of the tender to perform control and instrumentation maintenance at Camden Power Station in Mpumalanga between March 1 2019 and February 28 2022 to Senta Square was unlawful.

For the first time since the start of the third wave of the virus, Gauteng is not among the top three hardest-hit provinces.

One of the teens allegedly stabbed her 65-year-old father to death after witnessing a domestic dispute between her parents, police said.

At least 24 people have been confirmed dead after a bus lost control and overturned on the N2 between East London and Butterworth on Monday afternoon.

Time of death in pathology report, evidence from traces of bodily fluids and witness testimonies come into firing line

The CFO at the National Health Laboratory Service and a company director appeared in court on alleged personal protective equipment (PPE) tender fraud amounting to more than R14m.

A North West man who allegedly stabbed a man to death will remain behind bars for another week after his murder case was postponed on Monday.

All South Africans aged 18 or older could start receiving vaccines as early as the end of the week, health minister Joe Phaahla said during an interview on Monday.

Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban is the result of a 'failure of the US war on terror', says Wits associate professor of international relations Vishwas Satgar.