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Johannesburg’s electricity crisis is increasingly threatening years of work to regenerate the inner city.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has made an important ruling on racist language used in private, finding that even conversations between white people can amount to hate speech.

A letter from Jane of the soon-to-be-captured Waterfall baboon troop in Simon’s Town.

An anti-immigrant march in Durban descended into violence, with shops looted, vehicles torched and several people injured, including a man reportedly shot.

A dangerous element landing with the population now is that the Constitution and the judiciary that upholds our republic’s founding document are a luxury.

The destruction of a family’s home exposes Mayfair’s mounting challenges with urban density and electrical infrastructure.

Africa’s reliance on industrial agriculture reflects colonialism, inequality, and the erasure of indigenous knowledge, while intensive farming has driven soil degradation, environmental harm, poor nutrition and economic exploitation.

When an organisation speaks on behalf of a community, whose reality does it describe?

Kagiso Rabada has been ruled out of the Proteas’ first Test tussle with Australia in Durban on Friday, 9 October, as he continues his recovery from a hamstring injury.

World Homeless Day is on 10 October, but there is little response to homelessness from the government, while grassroots organisations typically have to pick up the slack in a fit of crisis management.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung oversaw test-firing of a hypersonic glide vehicle, a missile flying at low altitudes, the Korean presidential office said in a statement on Thursday.

British police on Thursday said they had charged a member of the Royal Navy with offences under the National Security Act for allegedly obtaining protected information and preparing to disclose it to benefit a foreign power.

Britain and Israel announced on Thursday that the nearly 200-year-old British diplomatic mission in Jerusalem would stay open at a smaller scale and with a new name, in a compromise after Israel ordered the consulate shut in a sanctions dispute.

A 15-year-old former pupil killed one person and injured two others at a Polish school on Thursday, police said, just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself in an attack at another school.

Lunga Simelane is an award-winning political journalist, but who is she behind her sharp, investigative work?

Turn a ‘braai snoek’ into a rustic pâté with a boozy mango relish on the side.

The corporatised structure used to run the City of Johannesburg must be dismantled.

As you pass an old enamel sign on your journey somewhere in rural South Africa, do you ever wonder where the brand came from – and what happened to it?

KYIV, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones in one of its most "vile strikes" on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, killing at least 28 people, including children, and damaging industrial facilities and ener…

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Barn owls, bumblebees, puffins and hedgehogs will feature on new Bank of England banknotes over the coming years, replacing World War Two leader Winston Churchill and other historic figures, the Bank of England said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe’s wealthy Wicknell Chivayo recently died in a helicopter crash.

Premier Group maintains its compliance in the face of a Competition Commission objection that could cost it billions.

A former driver and protector of suspended deputy police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya claims he secretly recorded his movements and has information on alleged criminal activities, ties with Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, cases involving people who allegedly disa…

Illegal firearms are being funnelled into the hands of criminals from multiple sources, including the SAPS, private security companies, government institutions, those smuggled from neighbouring countries and citizens who have had their weapons stolen.

Way back in 1901, Western scientists celebrated the sensational ‘discovery’ of a very strange, unicorn-like creature in the dark and humid depths of an African rainforest.

Despite demand, the potential of the renewable energy sectors in these countries is being held back by unstable demand, limited localisation enforcement, deficits in decent job creation and persistent gender biases, according to new reports.

A Belgian far-right politician referred to by a former colleague as “an unadulterated Hitler fanatic” had an exhibition about South Africa blocked by Brussels in September, it has emerged.

With a variety of polls coming to very different conclusions ahead of the local elections, there is no clear, predictable outcome in many important metros.

The latest Coalition Barometer warns that fragmented results after the 2026 local government elections could produce more hung councils, unstable coalitions and complicated power-sharing deals.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking ... a selection of recent images from our planet.

Sixty baboons are destined for Cape Town’s new enclosures, with a promise of less danger and less stress.

Hospitality agency Leisure Connexion is demanding repayment of more than R48m from a third-party supplier, extending beyond tickets that went undelivered for the Springboks-All Blacks second Test.

Red Bull’s Box Cart Race in Sandton caused severe Monday-morning traffic chaos after organisers failed to clear the site, frustrating commuters and damaging the brand’s reputation.

South Africa’s mining sector, it must be said, is showing promising signs of a turnaround.

Oct 7 (Reuters) - Former world number one Jon Rahm will leave LIV Golf after rejecting the proposed terms of the breakaway circuit's planned next iteration, according to multiple media reports on Wednesday.

An independent review is investigating whether the Old Diocesan Committee exceeded its role at Bishops Diocesan College, amid concerns over school governance, staffing, the Pride flag and the school’s Rhodes Scholarship.

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - The US Department of Homeland Security has proposed that international students pay at least $70,000 in training fees if they want to work in the country, according to a government notice posted online on Wednesday, part of t…

The JSC’s judicial appointments process faces scrutiny over inconsistent procedures and delays, raising concerns about the quality and independence of the judiciary.

Once trained to hunt lions, a group of Samburu warriors now track them to protect them.

‘Food Work’, a new IPES-Food report exposes the extent and forces driving the exploitation of workers in food systems across the globe.

Dr John Paul Makumbi and Dr Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi have been named joint winners of the 2026 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant.

At the Baxter Theatre, Cape Ballet Africa brings together four stellar choreographers and four fabulous dance pieces in one fantastic programme.

With the local elections nearing, the party partly in power should take a bold step by issuing a tough basic income grant policy for better equality.

South Africa has laws, strategies and institutions to combat gender-based violence and femicide.

Hitting R30 a litre at the pumps will ripple through every supply chain.

Faced with a technology that seems to be running out of control, what this UN General Assembly showed so clearly is a clear understanding that the world cannot wait for powerful countries to act.

Imagine you have been taking a medicine for years.

Houthis attacked the international airport in the southern Yemeni town of Aden with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones early on Wednesday, Yemen's Transport Ministry said, as fighting intensified across several fronts between the Iran-aligned g…