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Philippine senator and boxing star Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was voted out as leader of the country's ruling party on Saturday, weeks after challenging President Rodrigo Duterte over his position on China.

In a week of winding queues for food in protest-ravaged areas of KwaZulu-Natal, doctors and nurses were forced to make important decisions: join the lines or return to work hungry to treat victims of protests and Covid-19.

A Durban toddler whose mother threw from the first floor of a burning building into the arms of a group of people waiting to catch her on the ground has flashbacks to the incident.

The reopened N3 thundered again early on Saturday as hundreds of trucks left Johannesburg loaded with food and other essential goods to replenish KwaZulu-Natal's looted stores.

A transport company has been found liable for loss of earnings after two telehandlers it was trucking from Gqeberha to Cape Town were damaged.

The deployment of troops to halt unrest in SA will cost R615m.

A further 413 Covid-19 related deaths were reported over the past 24-hour cycle.

With police and soldiers securing the critical N3 artery, truckloads of critical medical supplies and pharamaceuticals are beginning to roll from Gauteng to KwaZulu-Natal once more.

The head of Gauteng's department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta), Bongani Gxilishe, has died of Covid-19 complications.

Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was travelling by car on a major road from the capital, Abuja, the army said on Friday, in the first such fatal gun attack on a senior serving military officer.

Tokyo Olympics organisers said on Saturday a person has tested positive for COVID-19 at the athletes' village, the first case at a site where most competitors will be staying

Rescue workers searched flood-ravaged parts of western Germany for survivors on Saturday as water levels remained high and houses continued to collapse in the country's worst natural disaster in half a century.