News South Africa

In 2024, the Road Accident Fund’s accumulated deficit is projected to breach half a trillion rand.

The Cape Winelands District Municipality has said its Fire Services and teams from CapeNature were fighting a blaze in the Banhoek area and Berg River Dam, Franschhoek.

The Estcourt Regional Court has sentenced the bookkeeper to 10 years’ imprisonment on more than 500 counts of fraud.

Alcohol-based hand sanitisers, used extensively to curb the spread of Covid-19, have a new set of standards which determine minimum alcohol content and prohibited ingredients.

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 2021 Virtual Basic Education Lekgotla. The Lekgotla is hosted by the Department of Basic Education to address key challenges facing the sector and to plan for the year in line with the National Development Plan, the Medium Term Strategic Framework of government and the State of the Nation Address.

Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister has flown into Thailand, as Myanmar’s neighbours intensified efforts to resolve the coup crisis.

Facebook said deadly violence in Myanmar had brought about the need for the ban on the military.

The domestic helper from Myanmar was reportedly tortured and starved before her death.

Kelsey Grammer, who played Frasier Crane, will return but it is not known if other cast members will too.

Zimbabwe’s 71-year-old Vice President Kembo Mohadi on Wednesday refuted accusations of sexual misconduct by an online news outlet, saying he is the victim of “political machinations”.

Do real-life couples face the same difficulties as those depicted in the Bollywood-Nollywood crossover?

How to master Xhosa tongue-twisters as South Africa’s city of Port Elizabeth changes its name.

Ghana has received the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines from Covax, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free.

Provinces or municipalities not spending their allocated grants from national government – or not complying with grant conditions – could find the fund transfers withheld or allocated elsewhere.

‘If we could remove the Covid process…it would have been a satisfactory year’: CEO Mark Dytor.

A breakneck selloff in the bond market left one of the biggest Treasury exchange-traded funds bleeding.

Former chairperson of the Public Enterprises Portfolio Committee Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba says the parliamentary study group system needs to be re-looked at.

The African National Congress (ANC) says Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize is innocent until proven guilty. This comes after reports that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) was probing a complaint about a multi-million-rand tender that was awarded to a communications company in KwaZulu-Natal.

The minister urged communities to avoid destroying infrastructure during protests as this sets the government back in its endeavours.

The DA on Wednesday said it believed the reshuffling of the Mpumalanga cabinet was a clear reflection of the political factions at play in the province.

Two-time Grand Slam winner Lleyton Hewitt was named to the International Tennis Hall of Fame class of 2021, along with the Original 9 of the women’s professional tour.

England forwards coach Matt Proudfoot has insisted all is well within the Six Nations champions’ squad after cricket great Ian Botham said they “don’t look a happy camp”.

Virat Kohli’s India are battling Joe Root’s England side in the third of four Test in Ahmedabad. Follow the action LIVE!

This year’s 104th edition of the Giro d’Italia will begin in Turin on May 8 and will take in some signature highlights of the country.

Children’s commissioner says moves to better regulate home education have been slow and ineffective

The Welsh government is failing in its legal duty to protect the rights of home-educated children a decade after a boy who was being taught by his parents slipped under the radar of education and health officials and died of scurvy, an official report has concluded.

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Play has been the invisible casualty of the pandemic. Is it time to let children reclaim the streets? Our writer looks forward to a post-Covid world of parklets, play streets and repurposed parking spaces

On the other side of a child-sized archway lies a street that has had supersized sprinkles of confetti painted across its tarmac. This leads to a surreal scene strewn with boulders, undulating...

The American actress Zendaya has revealed she is keen to become a filmmaker and has been offered lessons by director Sam Levinson.

Several hotels in Cape Town and the Western Cape have been named as must stay locations for travellers by Conde Naste.

Until Wednesday, rumors about the title of the third Spider-Man film have been a web of lies. But the truth has been revealed.

A Texas shelter badly damaged by last week’s winter storm is getting help from an unexpected donor.

Bruce Springsteen pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he imbibed alcohol at New Jersey’s Sandy Hook National Recreation Area, despite knowing it was prohibited.

SpaceX’s Starlink service will show radical improvements in performance as it reaches near-global availability in 2021.

Nvidia forecast better-than-expected financial first quarter revenue on Wednesday, with its flagship gaming chips expected to remain in tight supply for the next several months.

Convergence Partners, the investment vehicle created by businessman Andile Ngcaba, has acquired Ctrack’s operations in Africa and the Middle East from Nasdaq-listed Inseego.

Reported styling inspiration for the next generation Everest will remain a no-no despite being offered with RHD in the UK.

The variant contains a mutation thought to help the virus dodge the immune system, but vaccines should still be effective, scientists said.

Coronavirus cases at fitness centers in Chicago and Honolulu were linked to carelessness about masks and symptoms, federal health officials found.

F.D.A. studies show the shot strongly protects against severe illness and may reduce spread of the virus. But the drugmaker has fallen short of initial production goals.

A large study found that young people hospitalized with acute Covid-19 infection have symptoms and characteristics that differ from those with a Covid-linked inflammatory syndrome.

Planned UK first hopes to be looking for extraterrestrial life within five years.

Climate change could destroy “entire cities” in a matter of decades, says Sir David Attenborough.

The health of on estuary is a description of the condition of an estuary and are driven by two key drivers, water quality and quantity. Rain falling on the land eventually makes its way to a lake, river, stream, estuary, or ocean. Some rainwater flows slowly, in a thin layer called sheet flow across the […]

See the bloom of an Amazonian moonflower that captured interest from around the world.