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Drug abuse trends upward during the festive season

The two farmers accused of murdering fruit seller Chatwell Rogers have been released on R5 000 bail each.

South Africa has identified 6 381 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24-hours, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections to 3 038 075. This increase represents a 26.4% positivity rate. 

Two officers turned midwives when they helped a woman deliver her baby at the Springs police station.

Former Mpumalanga Agriculture MEC Mandla Msibi’s double murder trial has been postponed until next year.

The UK has placed travel restrictions on arrivals from Nigeria and several other African countries – are they fair?

Germany’s parliament will elect Olaf Scholz on Wednesday as the country’s next chancellor, bringing the curtain down on Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign, ushering in a new political era with the centre-left in charge.

Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had her sentence reduced from four years to two years after a partial pardon by the head of the military-appointed government, the country’s state television reported on Monday.

Three more members of a group of 17 hostages kidnapped in Haiti in October were released Sunday night, according to a statement from the US-based Christian Aid Ministries.

A Zimbabwe court on Monday dropped a case against investigative journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin’ono, charged with inciting public violence last year for supporting banned demonstrations on Twitter.

Professor Willem Hanekom says that the Omicron variant “is spreading extraordinarily fast in South Africa”.

Nigeria on Monday criticised Britain’s decision to add the country to a travel “red list” due to coronavirus concerns as unjust and not driven by science.

Shortages of funds, medical staff and equipment, and vaccine hesitancy were already hobbling inoculation campaigns in some parts of Africa. Experts warn that the anticipated surge, comprising millions of jabs in the coming weeks, could further expose those weaknesses.

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The ANC has hailed the former struggle veteran and party stalwart as a committed patriot

The Barberton Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga has granted R3000 bail to the former ANC councillor accused of murder. Lifa Nkosi was arrested last month, following the murder of an off-duty police officer and a friend in Barberton.

Former International Relations Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim has died at the age of 84.

The assault case of EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has been postponed to April 7 next year in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court, north of Johannesburg.

As the first Ashes Test looms between old rivals Australia and England on Wednesday, these are three things to look out for.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted on Monday he would rotate his team for their final Champions League group match against AC Milan otherwise his medical department would “smash” him.

The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture has also offered its condolences to the families who lost their loved ones in the horrible Aberdeen bus accident on Sunday.

Fee-paying Colston’s school to follow Colston primary and Colston’s girls’ school in ditching slave trader’s name

A fee-paying school in Bristol named after the slave trader Edward Colston is to change its name after a consultation attracted thousands of responses from the school and wider community.

Colston’s school was set up by the Bristol-born merchant in 1710 as Colston’s hospital and...

Demand for the Report Abuse in Education helpline means it will stay open, says NSPCC children’s charity

More than 850 calls, many alleging sexual abuse and harassment in schools, have been made to a national helpline set up after the Everyone’s Invited website revealed widespread sexism, misogyny and abuse in education.

A total of 150 were so serious that they have been referred to police and...

Bestselling author of crime series novels ‘Vera’ and ‘Shetland’ is back with ‘The Heron’s Cry’ – the second book in her ‘Two Rivers’ series.

Will actress, Kgomotso Christopher, who plays the role of Dineo Price on M-Net’s ‘Legacy’ return to her ‘Scandal!’ role, Yvonne Langa?

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) joins five other South African universities to adopt the mandatory vaccination policy on campus.

Charlie Cox is here to stay.

It’s a wrap for two of the stars of Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules.”

“Superman” star Henry Cavill has revealed that not all heroes wear capes — some just have fluffy paws.

While promoting his new Spider-Man film, Tom Holland confirmed he has another big role coming.

WIRED readers can get their first bag from Atlas Coffee Club—and an additional sampler—for just the cost of shipping.

Engineer and entrepreneur who founded Oxford Instruments and made the UK’s first MRI body scanner

In 1959 Martin Wood asked his boss at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, if he could to start a company making specialist magnets for research. At that time the concept of a spinout was unheard of in that university, but the easy-going Hungarian physicist Nicholas Kurti offered every...

The impotence pill could have effects in the brain that may help fight dementia, say US researchers.

High numbers of staff in self-isolation prompted the closure of Todholm Primary in Paisley.

Average blood pressure readings increased as the coronavirus spread, new research suggests. The finding portends medical repercussions far beyond Covid-19.

Lawyers for Sarah and Jack Hawkins say it is the highest damages award in a stillbirth case.

Tally the Turtle is recovering in a UK zoo awaiting a flight back to the warm waters of Mexico.

Nirmal Purja’s record-breaking climb of the world’s highest peaks is the subject of a documentary.

The spacecraft is set to crash into an object called Dimorphos in September 2022.

For the first time, 3D-printed ‘meat’ is being served as a whole ‘cut’ – the BBC’s Emily Maitlis tried it.