The Electoral Commission of SA announced R355m in public funding for 20 political parties and said it was not contemplating using e-voting in next year’s municipal elections.

The three accused in the Joshlin Smith case have spurned taking the stand or calling witnesses in their defence, meaning much of the State’s evidence against them will go unchallenged.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union led a march in Pretoria on Wednesday, demanding urgent action to end budget cuts it says are crippling public education.

Potential gold investors might have missed the big rise, but the bus is not too far down the road. If you run fast enough, you might still catch it.

The final decision around the creation of no-fishing zones around key African penguin colonies, including St Croix and Bird islands, was a culmination of more than two decades of collaborative ...

One key driver of the March CPI print was education costs. South African students a few years ago were protesting under the slogan ‘Fees Must Fall’, and while they have hardly fallen, their annual ...

The McKinsey case forces us to ask uncomfortable questions about the behaviour of multinationals operating in governance-compromised jurisdictions. It is easy for firms to speak the language of ethics ...

A cannabis sin tax could conceivably remove or reduce the perceived need to raise VAT by 0.5 percentage points.

Recent Peace and Security Council elections revived debates about whether membership should favour inclusion and fairness or regional capacity and influence.

A herb named after evaporating snowflakes — for the cotton-like tufts around its seeds — had first been eaten by the sheep, then was added to butter to baste it during a slow day’s cooking.

In a surprising twist that sent stocks soaring and the dollar bouncing back, President Trump reassured investors he wouldn't fire Fed Chair Powell, while teasing potential tariff relief from China.

During the first few months of 2025, while the Trump administration was waging all-out war on the natural world, a movement was gaining momentum around a novel form of environmentalism. In New Zealand ...