South Africa

South Africa has on Monday taken delivery of its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines, a move paving the way to the first phase of inoculation in Africa’s worst-hit country. Public broadcaster SABC showed President Cyril Ramaphosa at…

A 29-year-old man, Naseem Ahmed, has been arrested on Thursday evening, January 21 in South Africa for allegedly killing his 20-year-old girlfriend and their child. The decomposing bodies of the young mother, Chantelle Ash and their…

Five men have been arrested for being in connection with the gang-rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Eastern Cape police commissioner Lt-Gen Liziwe Ntshinga revealed that a multidisciplinary team had…

German company BioNTech has on Friday said a not-yet peer reviewed study shows that its vaccine works against a key mutation in coronavirus variants uncovered in Britain and South Africa which experts have said is more contagious than…

Germany on Tuesday extended a ban on arrivals from Britain and South Africa until January 6 after a new more infectious coronavirus strain appeared in the two countries. The ban was put in place after a new more infectious coronavirus…

A 12-year-old girl identified as Keitumetsi Banda nicknamed Itu was brutally raped and murdered in New Eerterust, Hammanskraal, South Africa. Keitumetsi's body was found dumped near a dam with her throat slit and intestines were spilling…

South African artiste, Master KG’s dream of reaching 100 million streams on YouTube with his hit song, Jerusalema has become a reality, just months after he set the goal. Jerusalema, which features Nomcebo Zikode, since its release…

University of Witwatersrand in South Africa has started the second COVID-19 vaccine trial in the country. The Executive Director of the South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit…

South Africa’s Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the fourth minister to contract the virus in Africa’s hardest-hit country. Cabinet spokeswoman Phumla Williams in a statement announced that…

World Health Organization has said that there are 19 potential COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, disclosed this in a series of tweets on Thursday night. It added that South…

Award-winning South African rapper, Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, better known as AKA has tested positive for COVID-19. The artiste’s management announced this in a statement released via social media on Friday, which reads in part; In an…

A two-year-old girl has allegedly been raped while in a coronavirus isolation ward at a hospital in South Africa. The alleged incident happened at the Dr. George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Pretoria, DailyMail reports. The…

Federal Government has evacuated a new batch of 145 stranded Nigerians in diaspora, it emerged on Friday. The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) announced this via its Twitter handle. According to NiDCOM, the returnees…

South Africa, country with the highest coronavirus cases in Africa, has announced plans to roll out the continent’s first coronavirus vaccine trial this week. The vaccine, developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute in the United Kingdom,…

A prominent South African politician have defied the popular belief that a man cannot take his wealth to Heaven, by getting buried in his beloved Mercedes limousine, in honour of his last wish. Tshekede Bufton Pitso, a former leader of…