E-hailing service Uber has partnered with Vuthu Culture, a KZN based non-profit organisation to offer free rides to donors who wish to contribute to relief efforts for flood-stricken communities.

SA’s daily Covid-19 test positivity rate rose to its highest level yet on Wednesday amid the fifth wave of infections.

The fifth global conference on the elimination of child labour takes place on Thursday.

Boris Johnson has been engulfed by scandal for months and came close to being ousted by members of his Conservative Party. On Thursday, voters across the UK are likely to give him their own kicking.

Details of Hillary Gardee's funeral were shared on Thursday by EFF and family spokesperson Sinawo Tambo.

Families of more than a dozen Americans detained abroad pressed the administration of President Joe Biden on Wednesday to act more decisively to secure the release of their loved ones and called on the government to "put patriotism over politics."

"Would it not be better if [the] minister did his performance after he and team catch the criminal?" asked veteran media personality Redi Tlhabi.

Almost 500 children police officers killed in the line of duty have not received their bursary money from the SA Police Service Education Trust since 2020

The world's only nonuplets are in "perfect health" and doing well as they celebrate their first birthday, it's been reported.

Taiwan signalled on Thursday that it had abandoned a plan to buy advanced new anti-submarine warfare helicopters from the United States, saying they were too expensive.

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They will be carrying some 250kg of cargo with them on their flight back to Earth.

A major North Korean propaganda website denounced on Thursday South Korea's incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a tougher line on weapons tests by Pyongyang, describing him as “pro-United States”, and “confrontational”.

The Asset Forfeiture Unit in KwaZulu-Natal has obtained a preservation of property order at the Pietermaritzburg high court to confiscate a Toyota Quantum believed to have been used in the theft of eight Huawei cellphone tower batteries.

There is less than 3% of water left in Nelson Mandela Bay’s storage dams and when these run dry, so will more than 100 areas across the city.

Australia will respond calmly to the Solomon Islands after it signed a security pact with China, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, dismissing a furious response by the leader of the Pacific nation to Western criticism of the deal.

Japan would face "difficulty" to immediately follow a move to cut off Russian oil imports over the invasion of Ukraine, its minister of economy, trade, and industry Koichi Hagiuda said on Thursday.

A grade six pupil was allegedly stabbed to death by a fellow pupil at Zama Primary School in Zastron on Wednesday.

According to the latest stats by the department, there are 3.14-million people over 50 who have received a single dose of the vaccine and 2.9-million who are fully vaccinated.

An off-duty Durban policeman was killed when he tried to stop a hijacking outside his daughter's school in Umbilo on Wednesday afternoon.

Vaccines are effective against new Omicron sub-variants driving a surge in Covid-19 cases in SA, the head of the World Health OrganiSation said.

The shirt worn by Diego Maradona when he scored two of the most famous goals in soccer history was sold for £7.14 million pounds ($8.93 million) on Wednesday, marking a new auction record for an item of sports memorabilia.

The health department has extended the deadline for public comment on the proposed Covid-19 regulations by three months.

Mpumalanga police on Wednesday defended themselves, saying not disclosing to the public that Hillary Gardee had been shot dead did not mean they were unaware of this.

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After several months of living with difficult to treat corneal anesthesia Ingrid Barge on Tuesday became the first SA patient to receive corneal neurotisation which will see her sight restored.

The Gardee family said on Wednesday that post mortem results revealed that Hillary Gardee had been shot at the back of her head.

A man who stabbed his girlfriend a number of times after finding him at his brother’s house last year was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for her murder.

A field ranger at the Kruger National Park (KNP) was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon.