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A flight attendant for the KLM airline is being tested for the hantavirus after showing mild symptoms and being admitted to hospital in Amsterdam, a Dutch health ministry spokesperson told AFP.
In less than a month, South Africa will start rolling out the most potent HIV prevention medication the world has seen. But that alone doesn’t guarantee that HIV-negative people who need this twice-a-year injection — called lenacapavir — will use it
South Africans heading to this European hotspot on 12 May must prepare for severe disruptions as unions plan a massive 24-hour shutdown.
Doctors Without Borders accused Israel of having deliberately restricted food and aid in Gaza, creating a “manufactured malnutrition crisis” with particularly devastating impacts on infants and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Member of Parliament and National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams will spend six more days in jail.
Advocate Mpho Justice Khoza from the NWU’s Faculty of Law says the success of commissions of inquiry lies less in their cost and more in the quality and impact of their findings.
A nightclub is charging US citizens about R5000 for entry, sparking a digital nomad tax debate that mirrors Cape Town’s housing crisis.
A federal judge released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”
Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking… This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past seven days.
Filmmakers Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar explore colonial legacies and the modern exploitation of South African elders in their acclaimed film, Variations on a Theme.
JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (Reuters) – Four of South Africa’s top law firms are suing the government over new Black employment and ownership targets aimed at undoing decades of racial injustice, calling them “irrational” and saying the timeline is unrealistic given the expertise required.
US President Donald Trump predicted a swift end to the war with Iran as Tehran considered a US peace proposal that sources said would formally end the conflict while leaving unresolved key US demands that Iran suspend its nuclear programme and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
CAIRO, May 6 (Reuters) – Israel struck and critically wounded the son of the Hamas militant group’s top negotiator on Wednesday in air strikes that also killed at least five people across the Gaza Strip, according to medics and Hamas sources.
WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled that the Justice Department can keep 2020 election ballots seized during an FBI search in January, a win for President Donald Trump’s administration as it pursues the president’s false claims of widespread voter fraud.
CEBU, Philippines, May 7 (Reuters) – Conflicts far beyond Southeast Asia are expected to dominate discussions of leaders of the regional ASEAN bloc meeting in the Philippines, with the Middle East crisis posing significant challenges for its fuel import-dependent economies.
May 6 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffrey Epstein and including the line: “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye.”