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Minister in the presidency Jackson Mthembu has died of Covid-19 related complications.

Private hospital group Netcare has opened temporary facilities in three provinces to manage increasing numbers of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the deployment of 2,122 soldiers will preserve life, health and property.

SA pharmaceutical company Biovac Institute has been contracted by the government to import, store and distribute ...

The singer came under fire for questioning why the Covid-19 vaccine was being produced so quickly.

Amid the scramble to secure a healthy supply of Covid-19 vaccines, the SA government has been accused of not acting ...

South Africans might be desperate to stop Covid-19 in its tracks, but this does not mean scientific rigour will be ...

Independents have a place, but at times such as this and for solidarity’s sake they should align with public ...

Gauteng-based athletes have endured months of struggle, seemingly without help from the provincial government. They say ...

She will never share a mother and daughter bond. She will never get see her child smile, cry, or hear the words ...

SA recorded 12,710 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, after two consecutive days of fewer than 10,000 new ...

South Africans want to drink our favourite tipples. We also want beds available in hospitals. We can’t have it both ways

The department says there is no data available yet to review the findings.

David Mabuza is simply not the right man for the job, says DA shadow minister of health Siviwe Gwarube.

Private and independent schools were well within their rights to resume their academic year, even while public schools ...

The Nasrec field hospital will be used to ease the pressure in Gauteng as the province continues to see an increase in ...

Is the new Covid-19 variant, 501Y.V2, more deadly? Will existing vaccines work against it? We asked an expert from the ...

With most schools in SA set to reopen in mid-February, independent schools such as Curro have announced plans to move ...

The department says there is no data available yet to review the findings.

"We must just produce our own vaccine that we can trust..." DJ Sox said.

David Mabuza is simply not the right man for the job, says DA shadow minister of health Siviwe Gwarube.

St Jeff College in Braamfontein is one of two schools who defied the Gauteng education department directive

Schemes under pressure to vaccinate as many people as possible while ensuring there is enough money to buy doses

SA recorded its highest ever daily Covid-19 death total, with the health department saying this was due to "data ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed his deputy, David Mabuza, to lead the inter-ministerial committee that will ...

The department of basic education delayed reopening schools by two weeks to reduce the spread of Covid-19.

TikTok users have mocked the conspiracy theories surrounding the Covid-19 vaccines.

Globally there are over 20 variants of the virus, with experts expecting a third surge in SA in June

Last responders battle to cope with both the extra workload and the emotional strain of the huge rise in Covid deaths

Primary schools can allow all pupils to return to school daily from February 15, provided that health and safety ...

The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government is pleading with residents to not "over rely on homemade recommended solutions" ...

Veteran media personality and former government spokesman Denzil Taylor has shared his joy at being discharged from ...

The government is tight-lipped about liability discussions with drug companies, saying NDAs are in place

Covid-19 has claimed the life of the Catholic Church's archbishop coadjutor of the archdiocese of Durban, Abel Gabuza.

People are losing their loved ones everywhere you look.

To “give without any expectation, without recognition”. That is how deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo aims to preserve ...

70% of SA's 30,000 ATMs are situated in remote locations and on premises that are not owned by banks, so compelling ...

AfriForum and Solidarity say co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has until ...

The Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems) and the Board of Healthcare Funders have urgently gone to court on ...

Condolences are streaming in for KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Bheki Ntuli, who died at a Durban hospital on Saturday ...

"I feel like I need to ask you guys to call on the Lord because no scientist is going to create a miracle at this ...

SA's mining companies will support the government in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines as the nation battles a surge in ...

I try not to be too harsh in my judgments of the government and its response to Covid-19.

Steep taxes and a higher legal drinking age are among the measures the government is considering as it seeks to curb ...

How do you make a decision when two arguments are equally compelling?

Education experts have expressed serious concern over whether 15% of pupils who did not pitch up at government schools ...

More than 3,000 Covid-19 deaths were recorded between Monday and Saturday this week, with daily deaths stats smashing ...

Throughout her pregnancy, Rozaan November was excited to meet the twins she was carrying.

Top private schools are insisting  pupils produce negative Covid-19 test results before they return to class next month.

The health department has stopped a national private laboratory service conducting unaccredited Covid-19 screening ...

South Africans will have to continue applying Covid-19 preventive measures even after the targeted 67% of the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday allayed the fears of many South Africans, saying the Treasury would have the money ...

SA recorded 14,880 new Covid-19 related cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday ...

A campaign launched by emerging civil society group the C19 People’s Coalition is calling for the support of South ...

The state capture inquiry on Friday adjourned earlier than planned after a staff member working closely with ...

Teacher unions are outraged by the department of basic education’s decision to get school management teams (SMTs) and ...

Parents and pupils have voiced their concerns about the basic education department’s decision to delay the reopening of ...

The NCCC wants this postponed to February 15, with the education minister set to address the issue on Friday

Parliament's portfolio committee on health has expressed concern at the insufficient oxygen supply for Covid-19 ...

They have also called on government to introduce online learning until there’s a clear downward Covid trend

South Africa has recorded its three most deadly Covid-19 days on consecutive days this week, as the number of confirmed ...

In SA, TB testing halved between March and August, with studies putting global death figures at ‘2015 levels’

SA's recovery rate has surpassed one million, but concerns about the 5G conspiracy theory persist.

'The NCCC was deeply concerned about the pressure on health-care facilities'

Bhisho's ambitious plan to roll out Covid-19 vaccines includes using half of all schools in the province as vaccination ...

It wants to give 3.7 million people the vaccine, with 200,000 health-care workers — both in the public and private ...

Andile Gova, an expatriate nurse at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the US who received his first dose of the Moderna ...

Tributes are being shared after the death of agricultural policy influencer Prof Mohammad Karaan on Wednesday.

The most popular municipal Muslim cemetery in Cape Town has run out of space due to Covid-19.

The ANC Youth League's Gauteng Crisis Committee is calling for the "immediate arrest" of their compatriots who had ...

Government does not prioritise children and teachers. If it did, thousands of training hours would not be ashes

This time, AKA took the streets with sarcasm!

As the country intensifies its fight against Covid-19, a survey conducted by UJ has revealed that the majority of ...

A Cape Town mother who spent her festive season heartbroken and in despair after she thought her premature baby boy had ...

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced on Tuesday that the department will offer limited services to the ...

DA MP Phumzile Van Damme and ANC stalwart Derek Hanekom have not only endorsed the Covid-19 vaccine, which is expected ...

Cuban health experts based at  KwaZulu-Natal's Covid-19 facilities have been instrumental in the fight against the ...

The Eastern Cape government has expressed concern that it may encounter problems with vaccination distribution to ...

SA’s alcohol industry, reeling under a renewed liquor sales and distribution ban since the end of December, on Tuesday ...

Many South Africans are anti-immunisation, leading a top virologist to try to ally fears and debunk myths

The first week of 2021 produced an all-time record number of deaths in SA, the Medical Research Council said on ...

SA recorded 806 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, its highest ever single-day deaths so far.

Health advocacy organisation African Alliance has filed a formal complaint with the Judicial Services Commission ...

A private hospital in Durban is under police investigation after allegations the outlawed drug Ivermectin was dispensed ...

The DA's call comes after Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement that SA would remain on level 3 lockdown.

Prof Salim Abdool Karim, chair of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee, on Tuesday conceded that they were wrong ...

Shabir Madhi says without a vaccine rollout, all they will do is delay infections that might occur in the near future

'We believe it is going to get worse,' says home affairs minister as department inundated with applications for death ...

What started as volunteering work for chefs who were jobless during the hard lockdown has turned into something ...

Lindiwe Ndlovu died in her sleep on Monday.

More than 200 deaths were recorded in both Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, as SA passed the 34,000 mark in terms of Covid-19 ...

At least 7000 South Africans have been arrested and charged for not wearing protective masks in public between December ...

Survey finds they also lack faith in a government rollout, fear the drugs are too new and are anxious about side-effects

The country will remain on lockdown level 3, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday night.

The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine will be at a scale never experienced in the country before — even greater than that ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced closure of the country’s 20 land ports to the public - with people only allowed ...

Glenda Gray, president of the Medical Research Council, urged South Africans this week to curb the spread of the new ...

The joy of Christmas was missing this year for Amanda Ngubethole, who spent the holiday grieving for three relatives ...

From asymptomatic to Zoom, here's the A to Z of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected more than 75 million people ...

Tougher restrictions could be imposed nationwide when the National Coronavirus Command Council meets this week to ...

SA recorded 11,552 new Covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours.

SA’s new coronavirus variant has rapidly displaced others but little is known about it yet — including whether it makes ...

A year that to all intents and purposes began only on March 27 when SA went into hard lockdown brought lashings of ...

2020 will go down in history as the year in which a deadly pandemic went hitchhiking around the globe.

It is said of common sense that it is not as common as it should be, and how true this seems today as South Africans ...

SA is likely to hit one million confirmed Covid-19 cases this weekend, after more than 14,000 new cases were recorded ...

Barely able to catch a break before the country plunged into its second wave of Covid-19 infections, health-care ...

Former Durban deputy mayor Nomzuvo Shabalala died on Saturday of a Covid-19 related illness, parliament confirmed.

Health experts have warned that SA will experience high levels of Covid-19 infections if people continue to ignore ...

Health-care workers are under severe strain trying to cope with the explosion of Covid-19 infections and deaths in the ...

"With the way SA is handling the second wave, 2021 will just be episode 2 of 2020."

"We have to adapt to new ways of celebrating and bonding with families and friends."

The total number of excess deaths from natural causes of people older than one is now at 59,463.

The Limpopo government has blamed the behaviour of its youth during the festive season as the province experiences a ...

The Gauteng government has called for Covid-19 compliance and “responsible behaviour” following several reports of ...

Insurance Claims Africa has welcomed the decision by Hollard and Guardrisk to pay claims from businesses forced to ...

Amy Louw, who works as an admin clerk in Cape Town, has spoken about her battle to overcome the coronavirus during a ...

SA recorded 339 deaths related to Covid-19 in the past 24-hours, taking the national death toll from the pandemic to ...

The personal-care industry and liquor outlets have been slated for failing to create an environment in which to fight ...

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find ...

The closure is intended to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The DA has lost its court bid to overrule the government's decision to close Garden Route beaches for the December ...

The Western Cape has 761 active infections among health workers, with 68 in hospital and five mortalities in the past ...

The national health department and the Solidarity Fund confirmed on Tuesday that a down payment of R283m had been made ...

When businesswoman Marina Wessolowski arrived in Cape Town on December 12 she was looking forward to spending Christmas ...

Travellers are sleeping in their parked vehicles while waiting to cross the Beitbridge border post in Limpopo, where ...

Taxi owners have called on the government to help them protect passengers from Covid-19, as tens of thousands of people ...

SA’s death toll climbed to just shy of 25,000 Covid-19 related deaths, as the total number of confirmed infections ...

Public sector doctors have started to apply strict criteria that may mean some patients won’t be admitted to ICU.

While many adhered to the regulations, some made news headlines for violating them and getting fined in the process.

"It floods my mind in an agonising way. The memories are at times too much to bear."

AKA's coronavirus rant had fans schooling the star left, right and centre!

Kouga municipality mayor Horatio Hendricks has warned residents and visitors, until the outcome of a court challenge, ...

The Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation has committed R402m and raised R1.2bn for education and small business development ...

Hundreds of South Africans hopped on planes and flew thousands of kilometres in the face of the Covid-19 storm to spend ...

SA is in its second wave of Covid-19, and health experts and the health ministry have also warned about a new variant ...

There may be no choice but to tighten lockdown regulations unless people adhere to social distancing and health ...

Nzimande says SA cannot go through another health denialism disaster as it did with Aids in the early 1990s.

Though international borders were closed for months during the most restrictive stages of the Covid-19 lockdown, many ...

'This new coronavirus variant is going to be ruthless,' said one user.

Covid-19 lockdown has hit the NSRI’s schools programme, with less than half the planned number of children getting ...

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Sunday evening reported 152 more Covid-19 related deaths - with the Eastern Cape ...

There are 100,156 active cases of Covid-19 in SA, according to the latest update by the health ministry.

Highest number of daily infections and deaths and a new record for active infections.Those are Saturday's grim Covid-19 ...

The department of health issued a lengthy list of questions and answers on Saturday after announcing that the virus ...

Hospitals across the Western Cape were under "severe pressure" on Sunday due to a sharp increase in patients with ...

A church gathering attended by more than 2,000 people has contributed to the increased rate of Covid-19 infections in ...

A new variant of Covid-19 has been identified in SA and is circulating widely - but it is not clear yet whether it is ...

Hunger for the word of God, grief and having easy access to fellowship are some of the reasons churches have seen a ...

SA had officially recorded its 900,000th Covid-19 case, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.