[The Herald] AS cases of Covid-19 continue to surge in neighbouring South Africa, Zimbabwe has gone on high alert to guard against potential spread of the virus.

[The Herald] HEAD of the national event coaches for the middle and long-distance runners, Benson Chauke, has rallied behind the Zimbabwean athletes that will compete in the Durban Marathon as they seek qualification times for the World Championships.

[This Day] Renowned South African fine artist, motorbike adventurer, and philanthropist Reggie Khumalo has urged Africans to shun xenophobia and other inhumane activity practice that has threatened the unity, peace, and kindness shared among the blac...

[New Frame] The xenophobic and violent Operation Dudula is part of a global trend of rising right-wing vigilantism that is finding favour in an era of crisis.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Water and Sanitation has called on the public to utilise water with caution as the winter season sets in with a minimal amount of rainfall.

[The Conversation Africa] The past 20 years have seen a significant decline in maternal mortality rates from 342 deaths to 211 per 100,000 globally . But every day, more than 800 women around the world die from complications of pregnancy and childbir...

[The Conversation Africa] Food serves as one of the critical needs a person requires for daily survival. In South Africa it's recognised as a fundamental human right under the country's constitution.

[New Frame] Kicking the president out of the federation's main rally shows how tired workers are of the government protecting the private sector while claiming to be on the side of the working class.

[Govt of SA] The country's water levels slightly decline as the winter season sets in

[VOA] Cape Town -- While South Africa's African National Congress-led government has refused to condemn Russia's war on Ukraine -- preferring to take a neutral stance and calling for mediation -- the Democratic Alliance Party's John Steenhuisen isn't...

[Govt of SA] Keynote address delivered by the Minister of Transport, Mr Fikile Mbalula on the occasion of the Presidential Climate Commission's Multi Stakeholder conference held at Vodworld Vodacom Conference Centre

[Govt of SA] Limpopo dam levels have slightly declined this week.

[Govt of SA] The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) welcomes the announcement by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that it has (on the 29 March 2022) adopted the resolution proclaiming 12 May as the annual In...

[Govt of SA] Premier Alan Winde: Current census count disaster could mean 1615 fewer doctors or 5981 fewer nurses, and 9 300 fewer teachers

[Govt of SA] Premier Winde and Minister Bredell: Western Cape Government signs MoU with Denmark to improve wastewater treatment as new research on Berg River signals alarm for conservation efforts.

[Govt of SA] The Police in KwaZulu-Natal have mobilised all resources to apprehend suspects who shot and killed an off-duty police officer outside a school in Umbilo, Durban.

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, Friday, 6 May 2022, officiate the launch of Anglo American's nuGen(TM)️ Zero Emission Haulage Solution.

[Daily Maverick] On 18 May, the world will mark HIV Vaccine Awareness Day -- the Aurum Institute, in partnership with the International Aids Vaccine Initiative, will unveil new research on HIV vaccines.

[New Frame] Bodies are still missing after heavy rainfall in KwaZulu-Natal caused massive flooding. Now distraught families are left to pick through the wreckage of their lives.

[DW] Cyril Ramaphosa was widely seen as the saving grace of South Africa's ruling ANC party when he became president in 2018. But his credibility with the working class and the poor is falling.

[The Conversation Africa] Humans' relationship with nature is broken. We're transforming the Earth so dramatically that almost one million plant and animals species face extinction. Losing species unravels the tapestry of nature, changing how ecosyst...

[The Conversation Africa] Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, one of the saner voices in the ruling African National Congress (ANC), has recently given voice to heresy. He has said that the time of the ANC in power is coming to an end. ...

[VOA] Cape Town -- South African health officials are urging COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Aspen to keep its plant in the Eastern Cape province open. This follows a Reuters article quoting Aspen's senior director saying they may have to shut down as ...

[New Frame] People who are now elderly and suffered terrible losses at the hands of South Africa's white minority regime are determinedly waiting to be heard.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- As communities in South Africa's coastal province KwaZulu-Natal continue to search for their missing loved ones after devastating floods that killed more than 400 people, the overwhelming impact of the climate crisis is again...

[New Frame] Two workplace incidents show that although domestic workers are legally covered by the compensation act, a lack of follow-through makes it almost impossible to claim.

[The Conversation Africa] When South African writer Antjie Krog was just 17, she wrote a poem for her school magazine which was shocking enough to upset Kroonstad High's parents. The furore caught the attention of the Sunday newspapers, who descended...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed an order by the Special Tribunal ordering a former assistant State Attorney, two other individuals and Ntandokazi Trading to pay back over R4.4 million, with interest fraudulently clai...

[SAnews.gov.za] Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, has announced a three-month extension for public comments on health regulations relating to the management of COVID-19.

[GroundUp] Workers stop work to demand better equipment