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Discovery has modelled the potential of the third wave which shows that expected deaths could climb to 92 500 if there are super spreader events before people are vaccinated.

Hooker Jamie George returns to the England starting XV as Eddie Jones selects an experienced team for Saturday’s Six Nations game against unbeaten Wales in Cardiff.

Several people have been arrested in Mamelodi east of Pretoria in a police operation called ‘O Kae Molao’.

On Thursday morning, owners of independent driving schools in Alexandra marched to the licensing department, angry over the online booking system.

US President Joe Biden has revoked a proclamation from his predecessor that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States.

Joe Biden plans to speak to the Saudi king as the report into the journalist’s murder goes public.

After months of claiming prayer had fended off Covid-19, Tanzanian President John Magafuli has urged citizens to follow precautions.

Video evidence showed as many as 14 bodies, some not wearing military clothes, and including a woman and a child, the group said.

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?

Checkers Hyper has launched a newly revamped supermarket in the Cape Town suburb of Brackenfell, which has now become one of the group’s flagship branches.

About 4000 cases of re-infection with Covid-19 have been found in South Africa, Barry Schoub, the chair of the country’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, said.

The fund invested in 225 companies in the oil and gas sector last year, down from 311 in 2019.

“It’s on the verge of exposing more billions stolen by the ruling party and its leaders,” the UDM leader claimed.

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.

Kaizer Chiefs coach Gavin Hunt has named an 18-man squad for Amakhosi’s next CAF Champions League clash against Moroccan side Wydad Athletic.

Hooker Jamie George returns to the England starting XV as Eddie Jones selects an experienced team for Saturday’s Six Nations game against unbeaten Wales in Cardiff.

Kaizer Chiefs will fly out of Johannesburg on a special chartered flight on Friday morning for Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou.

Kaizer Chiefs will not cheat their way through to the knockout of the CAF Champions League, according to head coach Gavin Hunt.

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South African actress Dr Gcina Mhlophe is sharing the magic of storytelling in a webinar to celebrate International Mother Language Day.

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.

The 11-month-old audio social network is compelling. It also has some very grown-up problems.

An idea that seemed like a real plus when streaming was newer has fallen into cliché.

“We want to really focus on a portfolio that’s more precise and consumer-oriented”.

“If I accept the vaccine,” one cancer patient says, “it will be with a strong feeling of guilt that at best I will be prolonging my life for a few months or years.”

Narrative medicine programs teach doctors and other caregivers “sensitive interviewing skills” and the art of “radical listening” to improve patient care.

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.

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 […]

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