A man known to Nelson Mandela Bay mother Vicki Terblanche, whose body was dumped in a shallow grave, has been arrested and detained on a charge of murder.

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme has clarified its proposed funding guidelines after a public outcry regarding a misunderstanding over the pass mark required to receive funding.

The priority is to vaccinate as many people over 50 ahead of the anticipated fourth wave, because more than 80% of Covid-19 related deaths have occurred in this age group.

A suspect in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise died while being transferred to a hospital from pretrial detention after suffering coronavirus symptoms, his wife said on Wednesday.

"When you have the simultaneous units trip like this, it certainly does arouse suspicions," Eskom group CEO André de Ruyter said on Thursday.

Ethiopia's state-appointed rights commission said on Wednesday some human rights were not being upheld during the current national state of emergency and expressed concern about conditions in detention centres that it was unable to access.

"If we drop all of the measures we have become accustomed to, that will push the fourth wave,” said Prof Helen Rees.

Two men allegedly linked to the robbery of two jewellery stores at a Phoenix mall on Monday have been nabbed by the police.

The current round of stage two load-shedding is expected to be lifted at 9pm on Thursday, then resume at stage one on Friday morning.

Jurors in the Wisconsin murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse ended their second day of deliberations without reaching a verdict, after reviewing a series of videos on Wednesday of the teenager's deadly encounters at racial justice protests last year.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" for his horned headdress to 41 months in prison for his role in the deadly January 6 attack by former President Donald Trump's followers.

The SA Human Rights Commission's hearings into the deadly July riots and looting are continuing on Thursday.

Security forces shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens as thousands of Sudanese took to the streets on Wednesday on the deadliest day in a month of demonstrations against military rule, medics said.

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Travis McMichael testified at his murder trial on Wednesday that he shot Ahmaud Arbery because he thought the Black man was attacking him after McMichael and his two co-defendants chased Arbery through a mostly white Georgia neighborhood.

Stellenbosch University says three of its academics have been named highly cited researchers, according to the Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from the Web of Science Group, released on Tuesday.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, whose health has come into focus after the 95-year-old missed a Remembrance Sunday service, was pictured standing and smiling on Wednesday at her first in person public engagement since spending a night in hospital.

The SA Police Service has called for a heightened collaborative approach and co-operation between communities and police after an officer was killed and two others wounded in two separate incidents.

Minister of higher education, science and innovation Blade Nzimande says reports that students need a 75% pass to continue receiving funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme are misleading.

According to the World Health Organisation, vaccine recalls or withdrawals due to safety issues are rare.

As SA hit day 600 of lockdown on Thursday, the Institute of Race Relations has challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa to provide answers on the continuous extension of the state of disaster

An application by a Christian organisation seeking a declaration for the Covid-19 regulations around religious gathering to be unconstitutional is set to heard in the Johannesburg high court next week.

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Gauteng again accounted for the vast majority of Covid-19 cases recorded across SA in the past 24 hours.

Zimbabwean vice-president Constantino Chiwenga's estranged wide Marry Mubaiwa has been sent to remand prison for 10 days to allow state doctors to determine if she is mentally fit to stand trial.

Civil society groups filed a case this week on the grounds that the new power would pose “significant unjustifiable threats to constitutional rights” and to the climate, by pushing up greenhouse gas emissions.

Rand Water has successfully completed the maintenance on its pipelines that affected eight municipalities across Gauteng.

SA's next chief justice will be one of either Constitutional Court judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Supreme Court president Mandisa Maya, Gauteng high court judge president Dunstan Mlambo or current deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo.

Patients were evacuated after a small fire broke out at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon, the city’s emergency services said.

Over 100,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses during the 12-month period ending April 2021, setting a grim record, according to data published on Wednesday.