One of the most important and most interesting questions of our time is whether President Cyril Ramaphosa has the political power to do what he says he wants to do. For several years, he has been ...

For more than 20 years, the law has required that the minister of health issues regulations to govern the advertising of medicines in South Africa, but as yet no such regulations are in place. In his ...

Cape Town came terrifyingly close to running dry, but 10 years on, is the city ready for the next climate-driven drought?

Plastic pollution was a big-ticket item at a recent meeting of African environment ministers in Nairobi. The experience of communal farmers in the Eastern Cape, who are tackling single-use nappies ...

Some names need no introduction, and this August they’ll be on one stage – ready to be heard, challenged and engaged with.

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) nearby and sparked evacuation orders as far away as Hawaii and ...

After a lengthy court process, Tiffany Meek, charged with murdering her 11-year-old son Jayden-Lee Meek, was denied bail after she was found to have misled the court.

Having shaped the treaty, Africa must capitalise on recent global momentum to benefit from a new era in ocean governance.

I didn’t think I’d be able to fit these four large lamb shanks into my tagine, but with a bit of careful rearranging, there they were, out of sight behind the conical lid.

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The City of Johannesburg says it is assailed by illegal outdoor advertisers and is worried that the perpetrators are not just rogue operators, but that there is a network of companies using forged ...

With 1 August set as the date on which sky-high tariffs will be imposed on South African exports to the US, anxiety levels are high in the Eastern Cape – especially in the automotive industry, one of ...