Australian police said on Sunday they expect to charge a 31-year-old woman with arson after she allegedly set fire to the Covid-19 quarantine hotel where she and her two children were staying.

A KwaZulu-Natal robbery suspect will appear in court on Monday after reporting his vehicle — which he is alleged to have used in a business robbery — as stolen.

Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse has expressed her concern about the new Covid-19 variant reported this week.

Delinquents had their Friday night ruined as Eastern Cape police cracked down on illegal liquor outlets and drug dealers

Maldives said it was barring travellers from seven African countries from Sunday over concerns about the new Omicron variant of Covid-19.

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Britain announced it had identified two cases of the new Omicron coronavirus a day after the country temporarily banned flights from South Africa and five other countries from Friday over the newly identified variant.

Emirates airline has suspended passenger flights to and from SA until further notice.

The speed at which the new Covid-19 variant Omicron is infecting young people has alarmed SA health professionals.

A man jailed for raping his girlfriend during a rave festival has failed to convince the high court to overturn his convictions.

Dutch health authorities said on Saturday they had detected 61 Covid-19 cases among people who flew from SA on Friday

Musician, composer and playwright Mbongeni Ngema has formed an organisation aimed at fighting gender-based violence.

Any form of lockdown will be a death sentence for SA's restaurant industry, The Restaurant Collective has warned.

Energy tech company Baker Hughes SA has awarded bursaries to students in the engineering, accounting, sales, and marketing fields in an effort to harness skills needed to help transition SA into a green economy.

The killers of a retired University of KwaZulu-Natal professor, who was gagged, beaten and bound with his pyjama pants, have each been sentenced to an effective 25 years behind bars

The Mauritius government has joined a growing number of countries to announce bans on Southern African travellers in light of the new Covid-19 variant.

Unvaccinated students will not be allowed on the University of the Free State’s (UFS) premises as from February.

The experiences of abused women have been laid bare in a report commissioned by the National Shelter Movement of SA

Eskom disconnected homes that were illegally connected to the grid in the Northern Cape this week.

While Cape Town grapples with a housing backlog, the city spends a significant amount of money fixing vandalised rental flats.

A leading hotelier has hit out at scientists for announcing the new Covid-19 variant without first establishing if vaccines are effective against it.

The Hawks have recovered hundreds of rounds of ammunition assumed to have been looted during the civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal in July.

Australia imposed new restrictions on Saturday on people who have been to nine Southern African countries, as the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 raises concerns about another wave of the pandemic.

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SA has said that the travel ban is unjustified, and Britain did not engage with the country before introducing the flight ban.

US President Joe Biden will restrict travel to the United States US from eight Southern African countries effective Monday over concerns about a new Covid-19 variant found in SA, a senior administration official said on Friday.

The University of Witwatersrand has made it mandatory for everyone entering its campuses from next year to produce evidence of vaccination

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday designated a new Covid-19 variant detected in SA with a large number of mutations as being “of concern”, the fifth variant to be given the designation.

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has issued a warning on a structural road collapse on Kare and Fawcus Streets, in Jeppestown, Johannesburg on Friday.

"It will be necessary to take some precautions. As to exactly what nature and to what extent, that is to be discussed," said health minister Dr Joseph Phaahla.