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Israel bans entry from 7 African countries as new Covid variant emerges

Israel has announced a ban on entry of travellers from seven African countries, after a new Covid-19 variant was detected in South Africa.

WHO calls meeting over new Covid strain found in South Africa, Botswana

WHO is convening an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the potentially rapidly spreading COVID strain found in South Africa and Botswana

UK suspends flights with 6 nations as new Covid variant emerges in Africa

UK announced a temporary suspension of flights from six countries after reports emerged that a new COVID variant is spreading in South Africa.

New Covid variant in S Africa has 10 mutations; 8 more than Delta

Scientists said that the new variant has at least 10 mutations, compared to two for Delta or three for Beta.

F W De Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid ruler, dies at 85

De Klerk died at his home in Cape Town earlier on Thursday after having been diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2021

South Africa's last apartheid president F W de Klerk dies at 85

F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa's last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country's white minority rule, has died at the age of 85

Morgan plotting a win against South Africa, everything else is secondary

The England skipper insists he doesn't want to worry too much

South Africa commits to reduce carbon emissions after foreign financing

In COP26, South Africa had submitted a revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to reduce domestic carbon emissions within a range for emissions of between 420 CO2-eq and 350 CO2-eq by 2030.

South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for 'The Promise'

"The Promise" is a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.

T20 World Cup: Nortje, Rabada star in S Africa's 6-wicket win over B'desh

With this win, South Africa consolidated their place in the top two from Group 1 of the tournament

Quinton de Kock says fine with taking knee, available to play for SA

In his long statement, de Kock asserted that Black lives mattered to him due to his family background and not because of an international campaign

T20 World Cup: All-round Australia edge out South Africa by 5 wickets

Australia endured some anxious moments before edging out South Africa by five wickets after their bowlers set it up with a clinical display in an ICC T20 World Cup match here on Saturday. Needing eight runs in the final over, Marcus Stoinis (24 not out) hit Dwaine Pretorius for two vital fours and completed the job with two balls to spare. This was after Australia were reeling at 81 for five in the 16th over. Defending a modest target of 119, South Africa got the start they were looking for when Anrich Nortje (2/21) dismissed opposition skipper Aaron Finch for a duck in the innings' second over. Finch went for a drive but he could not middle it as the ball took a top edge and flew towards the third man region. Dropped from his IPL franchise Sunrisers Hyderebad in the second leg of the league recently, David Warner (14) seemed to have found his form with three boundaries but Kagiso Rabada cut short his promising start when the batter sliced one in the air for Heinrich Klaasen to ...

South Africa arrests 56 people for taking Cabinet ministers hostage

South African police said Friday they have arrested 56 people who will likely face charges of kidnapping after two government Cabinet ministers and a deputy minister were held hostage for three hours

South Africa court rejects Zuma's application to rescind his jail sentence

South Africa's top court on Friday rejected former president Jacob Zuma's application to rescind his 15-month-jail sentence for contempt of court. Zuma handed himself over in July after the Constitutional Court found him to be in contempt of court for repeatedly refusing to return to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, where several witnesses have given details of his alleged role in a number of issues relating to the looting of state departments and parastatal organisations. In a majority judgement of the Constitutional Court, Judge Sisi Khampepe dismissed 79-year-old Zuma's application of rescission with costs. Commenting on Zuma's conduct, Khampepe said that he had wilfully refused to participate in litigation and then reopened the case when it suited him. The majority emphatically reject any suggestion that litigants can be allowed to butcher of their own will judicial process which in all respects has been carried out with the utmost degree of regularity, only later

Sinovac launches clinical trial of vaccine on children, teenagers in SA

Chinese pharma company Sinovac Biotech on Friday launched the Phase III clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine on a group of children and teenagers between six months and 17 years old in South Africa

South Africa vaccinates some kids in test of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine

South Africa on Friday started vaccinating children and adolescents as part of the global Phase 3 clinical trials of China's Sinovac Biotech vaccine for children aged between 6 months and 17 years

No BRICS recognition for Taliban govt until int'l law assurances: SA

The BRICS countries have agreed not to recognise Taliban government in Afghanistan until they receive assurances that it will comply with prescripts of international law, South African minister said

TVS Motor ties up with ETG Logistics for South Africa distribution

ETGL is a division of ETG (Export Trading Group) - a global conglomerate present in 48 countries with expertise across various industries

Covid-19 pandemic: Variant alert for states amid rising mutants

The health ministry has added seven more countries to the list of nations where travellers have to take an RT-PCR test upon arrival in India.

South Africa detects new variant of interest of Covid-19 C.1.2

South Africa has identified a potential variant of interest (VOI) of Covid-19 that is assigned to the PANGO lineage C.1.2