Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call in the State of the Nation Address to reduce the cost of living, Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen said on Tuesday that he had revoked a controversial ...

From WhatsApp alerts to school pickups, South Africans in Qatar recall a surreal night of missile strikes — and how quickly calm returned in a place they still consider safer than home.

It is South Africa’s political-economic structure, its ‘relations of power’, that need transformation, if the objective is to reverse our shameful poverty, unemployment and inequality. This ...

Walter Sisulu University’s Sinethemba Mpambane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Support and Development, was fatally shot multiple times in his vehicle at the Mthatha campus entrance.

Karen Webb, the Gqeberha firearms dealer accused of supplying illegal weapons later used in violent crimes, has won a bail appeal in the high court — but remains in custody pending a fresh application ...

The 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) involves 29 consultative states — including the US, China, Russia and South Africa — which gather annually to deliberate the future of the frozen, ...

The National Dialogue is crucial to confronting South Africa’s deep-seated problems and fostering a unified approach to building a better future. But it must be grounded with appropriate analysis and ...

From 2 to 3 July 2025 the Judicial Service Commission will convene to advise President Cyril Ramaphosa on who should be the next deputy chief justice of South Africa.

Although inflation is slowing, South Africans are still drowning in debt. Two-thirds of South Africa’s credit-worthy consumers who took part in a Debt Rescue survey stated that they cannot repay their ...

There is a profound danger of presenting guesstimates as fact. Misinformation is disrespectful to the materially poor and creates an illusion that makes true redress even harder to pursue.

Announcing that my flight to Doha had been diverted to Istanbul, the captain said Qatar’s airspace had been closed because of the ‘political situation between Israel and Iran’.

In a statement issued on Monday, 23 June, the weather service said that an intense cold front, which was expected to hit the Northern Cape and Western Cape on Wednesday, 25 June, would affect the ...