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Eleven occupants of a minibus taxi were killed in a head-on crash with a truck on Wednesday afternoon on the N2 between Mount Ayliff and Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape.

More than 300 South Africans have returned on a repatriation flight from Miami, Florida, South African Airways has said.

The 10111 emergency call centre in Maitland, Cape Town, was shut down after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus.

Confirmed Covid-19 cases at the East London Correctional Centre have increased by six, with another three inmates as well as three additional officials testing positive for the virus.

Cabinet says it needs more time to finalize a solid economic recovery plan for South Africa as the extended lockdown threatens to plunge an already ailing the economy deeper into recession.

The British government on Wednesday dismissed a TV presenter's claim that there could be a link between 5G technology and coronavirus as "complete nonsense".

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Professor Salim Abdool Karim, an adviser to government on Covid-19, sat down with News24 for an in-depth interview on the country's response to the coronavirus.

A day of stone throwing and looting in some parts of Cape Town could explain how some people are battling to find food during the lockdown, a Cape Town councillor on the Cape Flats has said.

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One year on from the general election, we've seen progress towards the realisation of clean government, with some backsliding and powerful resistance to reform and reconstruction. We've also come to understand the devastating scale of the damage inflicted upon key public institutions, writes Mavuso Msimang.

As the extent of the economic devastation wreaked by the coronavirus pandemic begins to emerge, economists have warned that the effects will likely set the economy back by more than six years – a worse impact than was seen in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Seven people have died of the coronavirus in less than a week, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said, bringing the number of fatalities across the country to 34.

Billionaire businessman Douw Steyn, through the Douw Steyn Family Trust and companies he founded, has pledged R320 million to assist coronavirus relief efforts.

"Our lives, when we go back after this lockdown, are simply not going to be the same," Professor Salim Abdool Karim says.

President Donald Trump's fiercest spin doctor, Kellyanne Conway, got into a factual spin of her own when she erroneously suggested that Covid-19 is the 19th version of the disease.

Evidence from South Africa’s tobacco control efforts indicate that exposure to junk foods through marketing can be reduced with legislation. Fast forward to 2020, smoking rates and exposure to tobacco through advertising and sponsorships have decreased significantly. Why compare tobacco and food? Yandisa Ngqangashe explains.

Gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has resumed some of its operations in South Africa, with roughly 8% of the workforce back at work, the company announced on Wednesday.

The Gauteng provincial government has put forward R80 million toward a feeding scheme to fight hunger during the lockdown - and the province will receive an extra R43 million from the national government for relief efforts.

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority warns against doing business with forex trading platforms that promise an income during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The main target of the Gauteng provincial feeding scheme during the national lockdown is children who rely on school nutrition programme.

Six members of a Port St Johns family are confirmed to have tested positive for the coronavirus, the OR Tambo District Municipality in the Eastern Cape said.

The World Health Organization says it was reviewing what impact the US decision to halt funding would have, and said it was looking to others to help fill financial "gaps".

Civil society organisation Freedom Under Law has entered the dispute over the repayment, to the SA Social Security Agency, of hundreds of millions of rand in profits made by Cash Paymaster Services, the company formerly contracted by Sassa to pay social grants.