French biotech firm Valneva said on Thursday its Covid-19 vaccine candidate was efficient as a booster for people who had received the same shot as an initial vaccination.

Some matric examination scripts were damaged and a marker was slightly injured during a hail storm that battered Thaba Nchu in the Free State.

Four children were killed and several more badly injured in Australia after strong winds lifted an inflated jumping castle into the air during end-of-year school celebrations, causing them to fall 10 metres, authorities said on Thursday, prompting an...

Fitch on Wednesday upgraded the outlook on SA's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating to "stable" from "negative", citing a faster-than-expected economic recovery.

"I never wanted a baby. I was focused on helping my mom because she was having it tough," a woman from Mpumalanga told TimesLIVE.

SA's lockdown restrictions will stay at level 1 even as the country heads into the holidays season, the health department said on Thursday.

The SA National Defence Force will be deployed to monitor toll roads and toll gates as the security establishment gears up for the festive season, defence minister Thandi Modise said on Thursday.

Criminals are targeting the liquor industry, with SA Breweries reporting attempted robberies at its storage facilities.

The national coronavirus command council has retained the lockdown at adjusted level 1, health authorities said on Thursday.

The police and the Hawks are appealing to the public to help them locate Swereen Govender, who allegedly persuaded people to invest in her personal protective equipment business, scamming investors out of R10m.

Hugo Barra, a one-time executive at social media leader Facebook and web-search giant Google, was named CEO of Detect, a Covid-19 testing start-up.

Malaysia on Thursday announced new Covid-19 restrictions, including banning mass gatherings and requiring booster doses for high-risk groups, as it reported its second case of the Omicron coronavirus variant.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers are seeking to call three attorneys who represent accusers in her sex-trafficking trial.

The story of these medical students is an upper, one to lift the spirits this festive season. But it also contains some pointed lessons for a country so often at war with itself.

Japan on Thursday officially approved Moderna Inc's Covid-19 vaccine for its booster programme, while Novavax filed for first approval of its shot in the country.

Oil prices rise as US fuel demand jumps despite virus surge.

Indonesia has identified its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the country’s health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Thursday.

Former TRC commissioner Yasmin Sooka says the blame should be directed at the state, not the commission.

The national coronavirus command council has retained the lockdown at adjusted level 1 in the battle against the Omicron variant, health authorities said on Thursday.

Two cops based at Winterton police station in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands were among four people arrested for stock theft on Monday.

Former president Nelson Mandela's family donated the borehole that supplied water to Lwalweni village in Qunu, but this created a complication that led to the water being cut off earlier this year.

SA recorded 26,976 new Covid-19 cases and 54 deaths in the past 24 hours.

The departments of public enterprises and forestry, fisheries and the environment assured the public on Wednesday that there was no risk of imminent power outages.

'Having carefully studied the judgment, DCS is convinced that another court may arrive at a different conclusion,' said correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo.

Four people were killed and 28 others injured when a bus and a truck crashed in Jacobs, south of Durban, on Wednesday afternoon.

A man accused of assaulting a 32-year-old Pretoria woman who criticised police on social media for releasing him on a warning has been granted bail in a previous case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.

The South African and international defence networking systems companies slapped with a multimillion-rand fine for price fixing on an air force contract may not necessarily have been involved in collusion or corruption, say defence analysts.

Suspected crime boss Mark Lifman has suffered another legal defeat in his bid to work abroad while awaiting trial.

The SA government's decision not to extend the Zimbabwean exemption permit (ZEP) remains in place.

A regional court prosecutor from Pietermaritzburg died in a hail of bullets outside the Umlazi magistrate's court, south of Durban, on Wednesday.