News South Africa

England all-rounder Ben Stokes will be out for up to 12 weeks after it was determined he would need surgery on a fractured finger.

Business for South Africa says the country’s business sector has been mobilised to assist government with resources, to strengthen and speed up phase two of the vaccination rollout programme.

The Botswana government has banned poultry and poultry product imports from South Africa after an avian flu outbreak in Gauteng.

The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

Jeff Bezos is on the defensive about how Amazon treats its employees following the failed union vote at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse.

A number of people were shot in an incident on Thursday in the US city of Indianapolis by a gunman who is believed to have then killed himself, police said.

A police spokesperson said “emotions are very high” following the late night shooting.

TB Joshua is one of Africa’s most influential evangelists, with top politicians among his followers.

In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?

Malawi’s once-ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Thursday called for President Lazarus Chakwera’s election to be annulled after the country’s electoral commissioners were removed from office.

Fewer than 20 companies worldwide have been able to achieve becoming aligned with the EU’s Good Manufacturing Practice standards.

After industry hiatus.

Following the implementation of a new policy linking them to national ID numbers.

Organisations have raised concerns over the proposed Employment Equity Amendment Bill which will allow Labour minister Thulas Nxesi to set numerical BEE targets for different business sectors.

Have slowed the arrival of vaccines in a country that’s yet to start a broad rollout of inoculations.

DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille has disputed Tony Leon’s claim about Mmusi Maimane being an “experiment gone wrong”, saying Maimane was the right fit for the DA and she saw him as an “alternative” to EFF leader Julius Malema.

Magashule’s group and ANC outsiders have made moves to get the president and others to also stand aside

African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to lead a by-election campaign in Hammersdale in the west of the eThekwini municipality later on Thursday.

City of Tshwane Mayor Randall William says the city will continue with efforts to restore its financial health. The City is currently operating on a deficit of over R4 billion.

England all-rounder Ben Stokes will be out for up to 12 weeks after it was determined he would need surgery on a fractured finger.

Zinnbauer watched on as Bucs suffered their heaviest defeat in the 54 competitive matches he has been in charge of since his arrival.

Seven-time All-Star NBA LaMarcus Aldridge has retired from basketball abruptly after he suffered an irregular heartbeat during the Brooklyn Nets’ loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, April 10.

Proteas coach Mark Boucher has made it clear that former paceman Duanne Olivier will have to do the hard yards before he is considered for national team selection.

RIP Nelli Tembe: Her funeral service is currently streaming live from the Durban ICC following a week of mourning after AKA’s fiancée untimely death. Watch here now.

Prince William and Prince Harry will walk apart while the Queen will sit alone at Prince Philip’s funeral.

On Sunday 25 April, ‘Jerusalema’ hitmaker Master KG and the Ndlovu Youth Choir will be performing live on Robben Island for Africa Rising and the Live Love non-profit organisation

President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to create more jobs in the digital economy, but his government cannot get the basics right.

Making the switch to streaming used to be a way to pay only for what you watched. Those days are long gone.

This week, we mark a major milestone by inviting our podcast’s past co-hosts to share their memories of working on the show. It’s equal parts lulz and tears.

Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout history.

Elaine Meyer and Barry Prizant had given up on having more than one child. Then, in their 60s, they got a letter from the hospital where they’d long ago had IVF treatment.

Politicians complain that only three NHS scripts have been issued since the law changed in 2018.

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said he hoped for a decision “quite soon” on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as local governments shifted to more complicated two-dose vaccines for marginal populations.

The group will assess the prescription of puberty blockers for under-16s, NHS England says.

There are warnings that, with ground drying out, more landslips and rockfalls could happen.

Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.