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Alexander Volkanovski retains his featherweight title in a thrilling five-round fight with Brian Ortega in Las Vegas at UFC 266.

Wrapped in rainbow flags, dozens of South Africans celebrated Pride in Soweto, and the end of an especially harsh coronavirus third wave for the community.

Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.

The EFF, which contested elections for the first time in 2014, quickly became the third most popular in the country with an 11% showing in 2016.

Since the outbreak on South African shores, 87,001 people have died from COVID.

A Gqeberha woman was rescued after she was swept out to sea, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said in a statement.

The Health Ministry says just under 30 000 people were given a vaccination in the latest 24 hour reporting period.

Dozens of people are injured after several carriages of the Amtrak train came off the tracks.

Ethiopian and Eritrean food is well known globally, but this is your chance to discover Somali cooking.

Reality Check takes a look at the facts and figures behind the world’s nuclear weapons

Untreated effluent from textile factories in in Lesotho, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Madagascar pours into rivers, contaminating the water

Sudan is in talks with protesters to lift a port blockade that has halted the shipment of South Sudanese oil and threatens the two nations’ economies.

Several thousand Libyans packed a Tripoli square late on Friday for a state-funded mass wedding celebration that also drew supporters of transitional Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and protesters against the eastern-based parliament.

The bombing took place within a kilometre of Villa Somalia, the presidential palace.

While Buffett put Omaha on the map for investors, Scott was in many ways the city’s leading patron. He parlayed the money he made in the construction, telecommunications and energy industries into civic amenities, including the zoo and the local campus of the University of Nebraska, which was named after him.

A delegation of seven South Africa officials will meet with UK scientists on Monday (27 September) to discuss South Africa’s continued inclusion on the UK’s Covid red list for travel, the Sunday Times reports.

The UK government is poised to temporarily ease visa rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers, reports said Saturday, as it grapples with a growing shortage that has now hit fuel supplies.

New data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion shows that South African consumers are desperate to become credit active.

The DA launched its 37-page manifesto on a virtual platform under the banner “The DA gets things done”.

President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a moving tribute on Saturday to the late deputy minister in the presidency Hlengiwe Mkhize, saying she was a “fine public servant who served her country with diligence”.

The late Deputy Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize has been hailed for her servanthood and not using her positions within Government for personal gain.

The DA is launching its manifesto ahead of the November 1 Local Government Elections on Saturday. The event will be held virtually on the DA’s social media platforms with the keynote address being delivered by DA Leader John Steenhuisen as well as addresses by Mayoral Candidates and the DA’s Head of Policy, Gwen Ngwenya.

Oleksandr Usyk ended Anthony Joshua’s reign as world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points decision in London on Saturday.

Watch the best bits from Jon Rahm and Sergio Garcia’s incredible day after the European pair won both their matches at Whistling Straits.

After day two of the 43rd Ryder Cup, the US team is in an enviable position.

Watch highlights as Everton beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Women’s Super League for their first win of the season.

Adam Oakes, a 19-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University, died in February after being told to drink a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, family members say.

The rulings were the second and third the last two weeks to suspend Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order after parents sued, charging that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Some districts have established robust virus testing programs, but many others are struggling.

New intake of undergraduates could feel like frauds, says study, because they didn’t sit A-level exams

New students are more likely to suffer “impostor syndrome” because they have won their place at university on the back of teacher-assessed A-level grades and not exams, a new study has warned.

Undergraduates arriving on campuses this week may “feel like a fraud” as they have not had the...

Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man’s struggle to be accepted by his family and country, saying it was blasphemous and an affront to the constitution.

An autopsy has confirmed actor Michael K. Williams, who played the shotgun-toting drug dealer Omar Little in the HBO crime drama “The Wire,” died of an overdose of drugs, the New York City medical examiner’s office said on Friday.

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“You’re one of many millions who landed us with this rubbish. You don’t just get to walk away,” he told those ‘disillusioned’ with the ANC

Kenya has banned a documentary about a gay Kenyan man’s struggle to be accepted by his family and country, saying it was blasphemous and an affront to the constitution.

The biotechnology is comparable to traditional breeding methods and vital to create livestock resistant to disease, droughts and heatwaves, says group

Leading UK researchers, vets and farmers have urged ministers to free livestock science of unnecessary legal curbs as the country prepares, post-Brexit, to ease gene-editing rules. Such a move would allow the creation of new breeds of animals...

Blockchain and decentralized technologies offer a compelling potential solution for many of the governance issues affecting the world today, according to the founder of the Cardano blockchain.

Wits University vaccinologist professor Shabir Madhi has warned that electioneering could trigger a fourth wave.

Some districts have established robust virus testing programs, but many others are struggling.

Masks work best when everyone in the room has one on, but you’ll still benefit from masking up even when those around you aren’t.

Charles Ogilvie-Forbes is a volunteer in a clinical trial at King’s College Hospital, London.

The prizes are given annually, and many winners often go on to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Scientists describe a familiar armoured dinosaur but there’s something very unusual about it.

It is time for humanity to grow up on climate change, Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations in New York.

All schools and colleges in Cornwall will be given litter pickers made from old hospital masks.

John Cossham wants more people to take up composting to encourage a circular economy.