Walking continuously for 10 to 15 minutes even if you are out of shape, or simply standing gazing at artworks in a gallery ― are both beneficial to health, two new studies show.

Forestry, fisheries and environment minister Barbara Creecy said on Friday that 9,789MW of renewable energy applications are in the department’s hands.

The Gift of the Givers has engaged the captors of paramedic Gerco van Deventer, who has been held hostage in Mali since November 3 2017, said director Dr Imtiaz Sooliman on the return of their negotiator this week to South Africa.

Two of 12 cheetahs to be flown from South Africa to India in an ambitious transnational relocation project were darted early on Friday at Rooiberg veterinary facility in Limpopo.

New Covid-19 cases and deaths in Africa have risen slightly over the past four weeks but Africa CDC acting director Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma reports cholera has claimed more than 2,000 lives.over this period.

“It’s been three years and I’m free,” says Sean Davison, the right-to-die activist whose three-year house arrest ended on Monday morning with him signing documents at the Cape Town high court.

The risk of dying from Covid-19 is 20 times higher among people who are not vaccinated than those who had the double dose Pfizer vaccine, a new study by Discovery Health shows.

Covid-19 vaccinations do not increase the risk of first-trimester miscarriages in pregnant women new research shows.

New disease variants, as shown by Covid-19's Delta, can change the course of pandemics, and identifying these changes is vital.

SA’s third wave of Covid-19 infections is dragging on longer than expected and behaving differently from the first and second waves, health minister Joe Phaahla said on Friday.