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June 19, 2021
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Stay at home: Western Cape government asks residents to avoid braais and gatherings as cases surge
- 'E-tolls are not part of the way forward': Gauteng transport MEC firm on stance to scrap e-tolls
- Police make more arrests in case involving R400m worth of drugs found in boat on N1 freeway
- 'First time I held a scalpel and cut into a body sealed the deal': young Dr takes human anatomy by storm
- Covid-19 cases in Gauteng schools continue to rise
- Nigeria could launch pilot digital currency by year-end - central bank
- Kruger National Park rhino poacher gets 23-year sentence
- Malusi Gigaba alleges there's a plot against him, with Norma Mngoma used as part of the conspiracy
- POLL - SA's economy seen growing 4.1% in 2021
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‘This was a hit’: Panyaza Lesufi after Joburg principal dies in hail of bullets
- Fishermen, oyster farmers fear power-generating ship will kill business
- Mzwanele Manyi appointed as Jacob Zuma’s spokesperson
- Political leaders are contributing to the increase in Covid-19 infections, says acting health minister
- New bone and tissue bank a boon for transplants in SA
- Man arrested for 'stabbing noisy dog with metre-long homemade sword'
- Elderly lament slow vaccination pace
- Police sergeant arrested for 'raping teen' who was walking to a shop
- Broke Lekwa gets promise of salvation via Treasury intervention
- Joburg primary school principal shot dead
- SANDF medics deployed as Covid-19 surges in Gauteng
- Late Kenneth Kaunda praised for role in SA's Struggle
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Ambush, robbery at work leaves mental scars for security guard's
- ‘Bara turned my uncle away for chemo, he died’
- Security guard’s dream is to build a house for his kids
- Ex-employees take Greyhound to court over ‘unfair dismissal’
- Victim’s family pleased with verdict against security guard
- Gauteng hospitals scramble to prepare for influx of Covid-19 patients
- 'All provinces are in trouble,' health department tells parliament
- Health department asks for patience over SIU's Digital Vibes probe
- Deny, deny and deny some more: Gigaba says estranged wife is a 'pathological liar'
- 7,500 new Covid-19 cases in Gauteng alone as SA records 11,700 infections in 24 hours
- Police union slams Cele as it asks Ramaphosa to intervene in 'feud' with national commissioner
- RECORDED | Former minister Malusi Gigaba back at state capture inquiry
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Western Cape police get 58 new bakkies
- Fear, fake news, registration process affecting vaccination of elderly: Kubayi-Ngubane
- Electrocuted couple's 'meter bridged, earth disconnected': City Power
- Rhino poaching kingpin gunned down in Hazyview
- Defence department to open 'sexual misconduct centre' to deal with abuse
- Zambia's founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, dies aged 97 - son
- Covid-19 third wave causing 'panic and misery' at Gauteng schools: Lesufi
- Covid-19 cases surge in Africa, fewer than 0.8% fully vaccinated, say officials
- PAC faction drags Speaker into party’s leadership battle
- Walmer, Summerstrand, Kariega are Nelson Mandela Bay’s Covid-19 hotspots
- Gauteng health department allocated R56bn to provide 'quality health care'
- Nurses 'overwhelmed, at risk of burnout' as cases soar above 13,000
- Clarity on Aarto rollout still lacking, says AA
- WHO want women of child-bearing age banned from drinking alcohol
- 'It is unacceptable': judge rebukes municipality over landfill fiasco
- Ivory Coast's former president Gbagbo flies home after decade in exile
- Entrepreneur, 73, aims to share R30m Lotto win with educational projects
- Closure of Charlotte Maxeke placed a heavy burden on Gauteng health system – MEC
- Rise in child Covid-19 infections 'a reflection of what is happening in communities'
- DA lambastes Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane for spending R150,000 on cook-off with Somizi
- State capture inquiry moves to extend its lifespan, again
- New footage of Lindani Myeni’s death opens old wounds
- Western Cape officially enters third wave with 9,300 active Covid-19 cases
- City was warned electricity problem could be fatal, says father of electrocuted couple
- Manhunt for 'heartless villains' in Youth Day killing spree
- Komani municipal meltdown reaches tipping point
- Truck petrol bombed during violent protest on N3 near Harrismith
- Siberian tiger kills employee and another tiger at Gqeberha predator park
- Botswana unearths 'world's third largest diamond'
- Schools must remain open - unions
- Gas explosion suspected to have killed 20 illegal miners
- Illegal power connections keep the lights on in Ditsobotla
- Soweto spaza shops looted, foreign nationals evicted
- Curro pupils fuming after being made to write exam on Youth Day
- UN finds no evidence of Islamic State control over Congo militia
- Former Eskom chair Jabu Mabuza has died
- SA records more than 13,200 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours
- Putin and Biden end summit after less than four hours of talks
- Eight men accused of killing duo on farm denied bail
- Gauteng teenager rescued from human and sex trafficking syndicate
- ‘You have the numbers to make real change’, DA leader John Steenhuisen tells SA’s youth
- EFF won’t comply with level 3 laws even if it means jail time, says Malema in fiery Youth Day address
- Country’s youth still face many socioeconomic challenges despite freedom, says Ramaphosa
- Soweto Youth Golf Day cancelled at the 11th hour due to violence in the township
- Off-duty KZN K9 police officer killed in tavern shooting
- 'People's cathedral' played courageous part on road to a just and free society
- Amnesty International calls for government to fix SA’s ‘unequal’ education system