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Prince Charles supported the couple after they stepped down as senior royals, Clarence House says.

Harley the Labrador picks up discarded bottles on his morning walk to be binned by his owner.

As Gauteng grapples with the third wave of Covid-19, hospitals are so overwhelmed that medical personnel are now effectively choosing who to try and save.

The Gugulethu Development Forum (GDF) has called for immediate intervention by the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, to look into killings in the area.

Sadtu said that the current arrangement excluded educators working in rural areas.

On Wednesday, the official vaccine rollout for the education sector kicked off, with 50 teaching staff being vaccinated at the Pinelands Emergency Services site.

It’s understood that the shootings occurred at a traditional ceremony.

Recent years have seen a dramatic re-engagement with Africa, especially the Nile Basin countries.

Experts say a third wave is inevitable but its impact can be limited with timely decisions.

Buckingham Palace has admitted the royal household is not diverse enough, as it releases its annual financial report.

Environment minister Ricardo Salles denies taking part in a timber-trafficking scheme in the Amazon.

Ramaphosa off to Maputo for heads of state and government conference.

Dozens of people were wounded or killed in an airstrike on a market in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region, witnesses told AFP Wednesday.

A bloc of southern African nations on Wednesday approved the deployment of troops to Mozambique.

A document leaked earlier this year recommended sending around 3,000 soldiers to insurgent-hit Cabo Delgado.

Africa’s largest wireless carrier MTN Group Ltd and Chinese technology company ZTE Corp were accused in a US lawsuit of indirectly supporting an Iranian terrorist campaign that resulted in Americans being injured and killed in Iraq.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to meet with the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) on Thursday (24 June) to discuss the government’s response to the third Covid-19 wave of infections and the possibility of introducing new restrictions.

A pair of South African brothers have vanished, along with Bitcoin worth $3.6 billion from their cryptocurrency investment platform.

The opening in the US gambling capital comes as the tourism industry has been hit by the pandemic.

The Cape Peninsula University of Technology Journalism Department says they will be researching why many young people show a lack of interest in voting.

The ANC national leadership is expected to announce tough measures against all its deployees in the North West, who are allegedly continuing to defy the party’s Interim Provincial Committee’s instructions.

The ANC Secretary-General wants the High Court in Johannesburg to nullify his suspension and the party’s step-aside resolution.

In paying tribute to the late Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo, some political parties have hailed him as an iconic composer who has left a void in the country’s music fraternity.

Kaizer Chiefs are closing in on a deal to sign former Orlando Pirates utility player that they have been linked with for weeks now.

Watch seven of the best goals scored in the Euro 2020 group stage, including strikes from Patrick Schick, Kevin de Bruyne, Cristiano Ronaldo, Andreas Christensen and Luka Modric.

BBC Sport rounds up the best archive action from 24 June in European Championship history.

Surfing has a laid-back reputation, but many LGBTQ+ surfers have felt unable to be themselves in the sport. Now one man is leading the attempt to change that.

The big problem isn’t Russia or China, it’s creeping mediocrity.

Survey sheds light on level of anger at higher education institutes’ response to pandemic

Nearly half of all students thought their degree offered poor value for money this year, according to a survey that sheds light on the scale of student anger with their universities’ response to the pandemic.

Twice as many students thought their courses offered poor value (44%) than in 2019-20, despite...

Students at Coronado High School, near San Diego, threw the tortillas at players from the predominantly Latino Orange Glen High School on Saturday.

No 10 said to be leaning in favour of vaccinating older children to allow for minimal disruption over winter

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Ministers could take another fortnight before decisions are made on whether to vaccinate teenagers, as education unions called for a swift outcome to ensure some older children could get jabs before September.

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‘I just want my life back. It’s been 13 years and it’s enough,’ Spears said in the 20-minute address via videolink as diehard fans chanted their support outside the courtroom.

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Britney Spears told a Los Angeles judge overseeing her controversial conservatorship on Wednesday that she wanted her life back and for the 13-year long arrangement to end.

If you became impatient with “The Blacklist” and stopped watching it, after the eighth-season finale — which wrote out the character of Elizabeth Keen, played by Megan Boone, with yet another irritating twist — give yourself permission to quit all over again.

The Marvel/Disney+ strategy of slowly building stories is becoming a bit of a bore with the third episode of “Loki,” a protracted escape scenario that gave fans lots of time to luxuriate in the title character — and his new variant — while doing precious little to advance the overarching plot.

The popular TV game show “Jeopardy!” is apologizing for using what it called “outdated and inaccurate” information for a clue about a medical condition that affects millions of Americans.

British-born US technology entrepreneur John McAfee died on Wednesday by suicide in a Barcelona prison after the Spanish high court authorised his extradition to the US on tax evasion charges, his lawyer said.

South Africa’s MTN Group and Chinese technology company ZTE have been accused in a US lawsuit of indirectly supporting an Iranian terrorist campaign that resulted in Americans being injured and killed in Iraq.

McAfee’s lawyer, Javier Villalba, says the anti-virus software pioneer died by hanging as his nine months in prison brought him to despair.

South Africa’s leading Tech retailer, Incredible Connection continues to lead the way with innovation.

More than 1,200 cases have been reported, mostly mild and more often in young men and boys. The benefits of vaccination still far outweigh the risks, experts said.

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

By rooting through files stored on Google Cloud, a researcher says he recovered 13 early coronavirus sequences that had disappeared from a database last year.

Moving super-spreading instruments, like the trumpet, closer to air vents could limit the aerosol buildup on stage, according to a new study.

Shenzhou-12 docked with the new Tiangong space station as part of China’s longest crewed mission to date.

China successfully launches the Shenzhou-12 capsule, containing crew for the country’s new space station.

A new study suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender.

Thai has dedicated his life to educating the Vietnamese public about pangolin conservation.