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Mysterious Ark of the Covenant under threat from Ethiopian conflict

Religious treasures located in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are under threat of destruction as conflict escalates in the country’s civil war.

Shoemaker invents giant Covid shoes

After a Romanian shoemaker noticed that people weren’t taking social distancing seriously enough, he designed a pair of shoes that would force them to.

Devoted dog spends six days outside hospital for sick owner

Boncuk, a small white dog, returned every day for six days to wait outside a hospital in Turkey where her owner was being treated.

Ayra’s debut tops charts 24 hours after release

The 18-year-old singer Ayra Starr’s self-titled debut album knocked afrobeat giant Wizkid off Apple Music’s top spot, just a day after its release on Thursday.

South Africa to pay 2.5x EU for vaccine, but US joining Covax spells good news

South Africa is set to pay almost two and a half times what most European countries have paid for the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine. It's a big blow, but there could be other better news on vaccine pricing following the change in the US presidency.

LOVED AND LOST:

Raised in poverty by his grandmother in the dusty location of Kromkrans in Mpumalanga, Jackson Mthembu knew the lash of apartheid from his earliest years.

RUNAWAY TRUCK CRUSHES MOTHER AND HER BABY

A mother with a baby on her back lost their lives when a runaway truck crashed into a municipal waste removal truck in Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape on Thursday.

Makhalanjalo repaints a masterpiece

It is not uncommon for a musician or producer to draw from outmoded or traditional songs and to modernise them, whether by sampling them or remaking them completely.

Bad sex: woman dies while sleeping with her brother-in-law

It ended tragically for a 56-year-old woman, who died while having sex with her 50-year-old brother-in-law in Durban on Thursday.

A brief history of those who went out with a bang

Dying in the act happens more often than you might think.

Residents flee the stench of RDPs for their old mkhukhus

Residents of Simangweni Street in Joe Slovo Township, Port Elizabeth are abandoning their RDP houses.

Tebogo’s booty brings in the bounty – but don’t touch!

Tebogo Thobejane is like a walking ATM. The beautiful socialite and actress walks into a club, spends three hours mingling with guests, and walks out with a cool R20,000 in her back pocket.