Cape Town fire services say seven homes were gutted in Monday morning's blaze in the Kuils River community.

The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) last year introduced a sewage-based early warning system for the coronavirus in some parts of the country.

Karim, who's the director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, has reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic one year after the country's first case was reported.

Co-chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, said that during the initial period, the pandemic in South Africa was growing rapidly.

Cape Nature, the South African Police Service as well as landowners in the Cape Winelands District scoured the region on Wednesday hoping to find all the reptiles.

A genomics team lead by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) found people who've been infected with this variant have a certain level of protection against reinfection.

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has stressed the importance of South Africa using this scientific method to stay on top of the COVID-19 pandemic's trajectory.

Experts on Wednesday confirmed that people infected with the 501Y.V2 variant produced antibodies that gave them a certain level of protection against current and previous variants.

A genomics team, led by the Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), detected the 501Y.V2 variant last year.

As chairperson of the inter-ministerial committee on COVID-19 vaccines, Mabuza visited the Biovac Institute in Midrand on Tuesday.

A 13.3% drop in new car sales has been recorded in February compared to the same period a year ago.

The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access platform, also known as Covax last week delivered 600,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana and 504,000 to the Ivory Coast.

Medical experts have said living under sustained COVID-19 pandemic conditions, coupled with the demands from everyday life, can lead to chronic stress and eventually, burnout.

The former state security minister was charged over allegations that he offered a bribe to former parliamentary legal advisor advocate Ntuthuzelo Vanara.

It’s understood the move comes after Advocate Johan van Aswegen learned Kilian submitted fake certification documents to back his claim that he’s a legally registered private investigator.

Zane Kilian is accused of tracing the Anti-Gang Unit member's cellphone until the day he was shot outside his Bishop Lavis home in September.

He'd been accused of allegedly offering a bribe to Eskom inquiry evidence leader Ntuthuzelo Vanara in October 2017.

His department has so far spent R69.4 million funding COVID-19 research and innovation. About 21 projects are sustained through this investment.