Public schools will close for four weeks, but those in Grade 12 will take a one-week break and Grade 7 pupils will remain home for two weeks.A new unit will prosecute Covid-19-related corruption.Here's what else you need to know about President Cyril Ramaphosa's address to the nation on Thursday.President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday evening…
Medical personnel check temperatures of patients visiting Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe imposed one of the strictest nationwide lockdowns in Africa on Wednesday. The country's number of active coronavirus cases has surpassed the number of recoveries. Activists and commentators, however, believe the strict lockdown rules come in light of a planned nationwide protest on 31 July.The…
Anti-apartheid ANC struggle stalwarts Raymond Mhlaba, Oscar Mpetha, Andrew Mlangeni, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Elias Motsoaledi and Wilton Mkwayi after their release from prison in 1989 in Soweto. Raymond Preston/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty The last surviving Rivonia Trialist Andrew Mlangeni has died after being admitted to hospital on Tuesday. Mlangeni, alongside seven co-accused, was sentenced to life…
President Cyril Ramaphosa with deputy president David Mabuza. Both minister Gwede Mantashe and minister Thulas Nxesi have been hospitalised due to Covid-19.In terms of the Constitution, the president may temporarily assign their functions to any Cabinet member.The acting minister has the same powers as the minister and can, therefore, make decisions on their behalf in…
Get used to Lukhanyo Am and Steven Kitshoff being involved in more local derbies next year. (Gallo Images) Confusion has reigned over the past few days over New Zealand apparently dumping South Africa and Argentina from Super Rugby, but that's not actually the case.Instead, 2021 - because of its expected border closures due to Covid-19…
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Some issues, like immigration or student loans, are too divisive to unite Trinity Moravian Church. “We’ve got quite a spread of political beliefs,” said the Rev. John Jackman, who leads this 114-year-old red-brick church near Winston-Salem’s old textile mills. Conservative Republicans sit with liberal Democrats. Supporters of President Donald Trump mix with
17 min read IT’S APPROACHING 11 A.M. on a humid day in May. Ben Simmons has been out fishing in the waters southeast of Miami since 6:15, his boat pushing away from the marina with a waning crescent still hung in the sky. The 29-year-old has spent most of the morning up on the bow
For companies, choosing not to look is not a defense. It is willful blindness, and juries understand it instantly. Published: June 29, 2026, 12:06 am When I started suing food companies more than thirty years ago, after E. coli O157:H7 in undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers killed four children and sickened hundreds, proving where