Last-minute airfares on South Africa’s airlines usually cost double – with some charging roughly what you’ll pay for a return trip to London (with a little more planning).
OUTsurance expects to deploy another €60 million (R1.2 billion) to its Irish venture over the next six years as it continues to evolve into a fully fledged multi-national property and casualty insurer.
It will be a matter of months before all the damaged subsea cable internet infrastructure connecting South Africa to the rest of the world are fully repaired, supposing there are no further issues or complications.
An ANC-DA coalition government in Johannesburg is likely the only way to stop the city’s decay. It’s time Cyril Ramaphosa and John Steenhuisen go fly fishing, writes Adriaan Basson.
More than 12 years since their arrest, two former police officers will be sentenced for fraud and corruption in the Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday.
The family of an 11-year-old girl who was murdered in Meloding, Free State, say they doubt they will heal after she was axed to death, allegedly by a family friend.
The head of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in South Africa discusses the organisation’s drive for greater professionalism, accountability and ethics in the broader property sector. He also weighs in on the ‘tragic’ fortunes of Tongaat Hulett.
Challenges in rolling out billions of rand worth of bulk infrastructure, under-resourced municipalities, and a lack of coordination within the three spheres of government are at the heart of South Africa’s crippling water crisis.
The ANC and former president Jacob Zuma’s new political home, the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, will be squaring off in the Electoral Court sitting in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a meeting between the ANC and the IFP in an attempt to de-escalate heightened political tensions between the parties in a province considered to be the battleground for the upcoming elections.
Newcastle are open to selling Bruno Guimaraes, Manchester United and Liverpool are among Brahim Diaz’s admirers, Everton set a huge fee for Jarrad Branthwaite, plus more.
My friend and colleague of 50 years, Robin Okey, who has died aged 81, was emeritus professor of history at the University of Warwick. He was a remarkable person in so many ways.
In 1966, Robin was one of the first appointments to the history department at the newly founded University of Warwick, holding the positions of lecturer, senior lecturer and professor of history until he retired in...
Earlier today I set these puzzles by Lewis Carroll, who as well as writing books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was also a prolific puzzle setter.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year but is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products. The final rule marks a major expansion of EPA regulation under a landmark 2016 law that overhauled...
UN chief António Guterres says risk of nuclear war has escalated and that ‘humanity cannot survive a sequel to Oppenheimer’
The US and Japan are sponsoring a UN security council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the US ambassador has announced.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a UN security council meeting that “any placement of nuclear weapons...
The findings from the National Institutes of Health are at odds with previous research that looked into the mysterious health incidents experienced by U.S. diplomats and spies.
South Africa’s cash-strapped government can’t afford to fund the development of infrastructure that can withstand the impact of global warming and has to look beyond the national budget to come up with the money it needs.
The world’s biggest vaccine maker will start rolling out a cheap new malaria inoculation in Africa from May, bolstering the fight against one of the most deadly infectious diseases globally.
South Africa’s draft Integrated Resource Plan is severely misaligned to the country’s pathways for decarbonisation, exacerbates poverty while making electricity inaccessible and unaffordable, and causes health, climate and socio-economic harm, write Sibusiso Mazomba, Gabriel Klaasen and Masego Mokgwetsi.