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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the Department of Health’s director-general Sandile Buthelezi flagged the department’s contract with Digital Vibes.

Holding the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is akin to staging it in apartheid South Africa, according to the new chief executive of Kick It Out.

Learners from three schools  in Mmukubyane village in Moretele in the North West, have not been attending school for the past three days, after a 13-year-old learner was attacked and raped on her way home from school.

The families of the three Lily Mine workers who were trapped underground when the mine collapsed five year ago, are calling for the intervention of the Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy- Gwede Mantashe.

Police are looking for a 17-year-old who was allegedly kidnapped in Durban on Monday.

A Limpopo businessman, who is already accused of defrauding Eskom, appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court on Thursday, on additional charges of tax evasion valued at R5 million.

The Covid-19 pandemic has left an already strained medical oxygen supply gasping for breath, with the UN and its partners warning that $1.6 billion was needed to address the global emergency.

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker is mourning the loss of his father, who drowned in Lavras do Sul, Brazil near the border with Uruguay.

Greece and Austria want Covid-free tourists this summer, but other EU states are wary.

A recently-opened center for the LGBTQI+ community in Ghana, has been shut down after it was raided by security forces in the West African country Wednesday.

Officials said previously 10 people were killed and 47 were injured in Tuesday’s attack when jihadists fired rocket-propelled grenades.

The African Union is backing calls for drugmakers to waive some intellectual property rights on Covid-19 medicines and vaccines to speed up their rollout to poor countries, the head of its disease control body.

Liquid Telecom, majority owned by telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, raised $840 million in a bond sale to refinance debt and expand further into Africa.

Gay sex is a crime punishable with up to five years in prison in the Central African country.

Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland hailed the move as a positive message to miners and investors. Companies have been exploring self-generation amid load shedding and rising tariffs.

Another Federal Reserve reassurance it would not hike interest rates until absolutely necessary buoyed Asian markets Thursday, while traders were also taking heart from positive developments on the vaccine front.

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Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, is seeking a tough sanction from the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein against former party MP, Thembinkosi Rawula.

In a series of videos that have gone viral on social media, Lindsey Dentlinger can be seeninterviewing ignoring the fact that the White parliamentarians she was interviewing weren’t wearing masks, while reminding their Black counterparts to wear theirs before they can respond to questions posed to them.

Mathabatha outlined this and other plans to boost service delivery for the province during his State of the Province Address at the Lebowakgomo Legislative Chamber outside Polokwane.

North West Premier, Professor Job Mokgoro, says his administration will establish a provincial forensic investigation unit to probe allegations of fraud, corruption, and maladministration within government departments and municipalities.

Mamelodi Sundowns co-coach Rhulani Mokwena has, for the first time, confirmed that Pitso Mosimane wanted him at Al Ahly.

The Warriors have beaten the Knights in a T20 Challenge encounter at Kingsmead with the Eastern Cape franchise moving up to second on the log thanks to the win.

England are “hurting” after their crushing third-Test defeat to India inside two days but the tourists will come back stronger in the final game says captain Joe Root.

Former Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer says the Sharks are making the right call by not handing Siya Kolisi the captain’s armband.

What we know so far about the plan to replace in-person exams with teacher assessments

After cancelling this summer’s A-level, GCSE, BTec and vocation qualifications, the government in England has finally confirmed that teachers will award final grades.

Why has it taken so long?

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Pop superstar Lady Gaga is offering a$500 000 reward for the return of her French bulldogs Koji and Gustav that were stolen in Hollywood, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, after reports that her dog walker was shot.

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The first season of Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia ended on a dramatic cliff hanger.

Lady Gaga’s dog walker was shot and her two French bulldogs, “Koij” and “Gustav,” were stolen Wednesday night in Hollywood, a source close to the singer tells CNN.

While country legend Garth Brooks has tested negative for Covid-19, his wife Trisha Yearwood has contracted the virus.

Absence of smaller dinosaurs may be result of adolescent megatheropods crowding them out

Teenage T rexes and other carnivorous dinosaurs the size of lions or bears may have crowded out smaller species, explaining why there are so few of them preserved in the fossil record, research suggests.

Despite dominating the land for more than 150 million years, dinosaurs were not particularly diverse,...

Though it has received outsized attention for the last few years, the company has not changed very much. But a recent acquisition spree signals a new course.

The New York Times would like to hear from parents and adolescents who are dealing with mental health challenges.

During the pandemic, there was a dramatic increase in exposures to hand sanitizer reported among kids under 6, U.S. poison center data shows.

“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.

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.

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