Thousands of copies of a book revealing the power struggles and secret talks that led to formal negotiations between the ANC and the apartheid government have been donated to high schools in SA.

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin began virtual talks on Ukraine and other subjects on Tuesday, Russian state television reported, amid Western fears that Moscow plans to attack its southern neighbour.

Commercial, off-the-shelf hand sanitisers used by people in and around Tshwane are substandard, do not contain the recommended alcohol content and are mostly incorrectly labelled, according to a University of Pretoria study.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the suggestion he intervened in the evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan, in August to prioritise the passage of animals was "complete nonsense" after such a charge was made by a whistleblower.

Up to 1 million Covid-19 vaccines are estimated to have expired in Nigeria last month without being used, two sources told local media, one of the biggest single losses of doses that shows the difficulty African nations have getting shots in arms.

The Limpopo transport and community safety department says a search for the occupants of two vehicles swept off a flooded low-lying bridge will start on Wednesday.

The IFP has called for a ban on matric “pens down” celebrations during the fourth wave of  Covid-19 infections in KwaZulu-Natal.

At least 30 passengers on a bus in Nigeria's Sokoto state were burnt to death when gunmen torched it on Tuesday, police and residents said, in yet another reminder of growing insecurity in Africa's most populous country.

The attempt by the ANC to push through the Constitution 18th Amendment Bill to allow land expropriation without compensation fell flat on Tuesday.

The eThekwini municipality has procured private security services as it prepares for the influx of holidaymakers expected to descend on its beaches and entertainment establishments for the festive season.

The surest way to know if you’ve got Covid-19 or a common flu is by taking a Covid-19 test, Sama advises.

A pilot has died in a light aircraft crash at the Bronkhorstspruit Nature Reserve in Pretoria.

US hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt has surrendered $70m (at least $1.1bn) of stolen antiquities and accepted a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities to resolve a criminal probe, Manhattan District Attorn...

The earliest studies on Omicron are in and the glimpse they’re providing is cautiously optimistic: while vaccines like the one made by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE may be less powerful against the new variant, protection can be fortified with booster...

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the last of the Biden administration's Covid-19 vaccine mandates for businesses, saying the government exceeded it authority with a requirement that millions of employees of federal contractors be inoculated.

Every person infected with Covid-19 in Gauteng is passing the virus to more than three other people.

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The Omicron variant of the coronavirus can partially evade the protection from two doses of Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine, the research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa said on Tuesday.

The United Kingdom saw a record rise in the number of deaths caused by alcohol misuse last year, which public health officials said was linked to the wider social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The bill proposes a number of changes to the regulations in schools, including pupil attendance and the conditions under which alcohol may be on school premises.

A man who was under police guard in hospital after allegedly setting a woman on fire outside a crèche in Benoni in September has died.

A total of 71% of the over-60 population is vaccinated. This is the highest vaccine uptake in the adult population followed by the over-50 and over-35 cohorts at 62% and 53% respectively.

As part of efforts to reduce attacks on hospital staff by mental health patients in public hospitals, the Gauteng department of health says additional measures have been introduced.

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Mara Glennie, founder and CEO of Tears, said they received nearly 43,000 calls from victims of sexual assault and domestic violence last year.

The Congress of SA Students has instructed political volunteers to invade the spaces of ANC leadership to equally enjoy their festive holidays.

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Brazil will require that unvaccinated travelers entering the country go on a five-day quarantine followed by a Covid-19 test, its health minister said on Tuesday, after its president said he opposed the use of a vaccine passport.

A Kenyan police officer shot dead six people in a rampage in a neighbourhood in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday and then shot and killed himself, police said.