SA biopharmaceutical firm Biovac opened a state-of-the-art product development laboratory in Cape Town on Thursday, backed by the Gates Foundation.

The miner’s share price surged on Thursday as it reported a positive operational performance for the three months ended in September.

Former Bosasa chief operating officer Angelo Agrizzi has pleaded guilty to corruption and money laundering, but has escaped jail time.

African and international efforts to stop the war have been slow. Now swift action, including possibly invoking the responsibility to protect (R2P), is vital.

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Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1,586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto. Results show that more than half of the deaths in newborns and about a third in infants were caused by just two types of bacteria.

If Joburg residents have been confused by the city’s ever-changing weather, they are not alone. Daily Maverick spoke to the South African Weather Services to understand what happened to late spring in the City of Gold.

The establishment of such a panel ‘would be a permanent legacy’ of South Africa’s G20 presidency, says the G20 Inequality Committee.

Former bodyguards of Deputy President Paul Mashatile have failed to have their assault case, in which they are accused of beating SA National Defence Force trainees, thrown out of the Randburg Magistrate’s Court.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she filed a complaint against a man who groped her and tried to kiss her as she walked between meetings in the capital city, a day after a video of the incident went viral.

South Africa’s government said on Thursday it had received distress calls from 17 citizens who had joined mercenary forces in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and was working to bring them home.

Taiwan said it welcomed a senior Fijian diplomat this week who met with Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim – a highly unusual trip, given the Pacific island state only has formal relations with Beijing, and one that drew an angry response from China’s government.

France’s Louvre Museum began a security audit a decade ago but the recommended upgrades will not be completed until 2032, the state auditor said in a report on Thursday compiled before a spectacular heist there last month.

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The ANC retained both wards it was defending in the latest round of by-elections. The party was dominant in Fetakgomo Tubatse in Limpopo and held on in Govan Mbeki in Mpumalanga after a strong challenge from the DA in a township ward.

Seventeen South African men are trapped in war-torn Donbas, in Ukraine, the Presidency has said.

#JacarandaInYourPocket season from mid-October to mid-November is a month-long love letter to Johannesburg, captured through the lenses of hundreds of photographers.

Veteran anti-apartheid activist and UK politician Lord Peter Hain combines lived experience with sharp political insight in his book about democracy, corruption and justice.

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