The tragic injury of 10-year-old Azariah Pietersen highlights urgent calls for safer roads in Gqeberha, as residents demand action against reckless driving.
Amid severe water shortages, Kei Mouth locals have banded together to rejuvenate old water reservoirs while pushing for better management from the municipality to secure their future.
Organised business in Nelson Mandela Bay has called on small enterprises and large industry to become more water resilient as the city faces a water crisis… while the municipality wants to residents to refuse a water refill at restaurants, change their lawnmower setting and take away their children’s water pistols.
Residential hijackings are on the increase in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, with the City confirming that 17 properties are under investigation. So just how do you hijack a property? And what can be done once the property has been taken over?
Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the owners of Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, where a fire in the early hours of Jan. 1 killed dozens.
Israel said on Sunday it was terminating the humanitarian operations of the international charity Doctors Without Borders in Gaza after the organisation failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway faces backlash over her past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, revealed in newly unsealed documents, including emails and a four-day stay at his Florida home in 2013.
Defining the middle class in South Africa is widely debated, but data from various authorities gives us a good idea of how much it takes to be included.
At 58%, most of the households in the ANC-led Mpofana Local Municipality don’t have access to electricity, and the town is at risk of a “possible grid collapse”.
Michael Carrick says he is delighted for Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko after he scored a last-minute winner against Fulham in front of the Stretford End.
Government has ‘learned lesson’ of botched welfare overhauls but MPs say they will not back cost-saving measures
Ministers have “learned the lesson” of botched welfare changes and are on a sustained lobbying blitz of Labour MPs over an overhaul of special educational needs, Labour MPs told the Guardian, as they said they would not back measures aimed at saving money.
Labour’s changes to the student loan system have turned frustration into full-blown fury, which its opponents are likely to reap at the ballot box
Student loans: ‘My debt rose £20,000 to £77,000 even though I’m paying’
“It is not right that people who don’t go to university are having to bear all the cost for others to do so,” Rachel Reeves remarked this week, amid the increasingly angry...
Vineyard Wind (powering Massachusetts) is one of five offshore wind projects “that the Trump administration tried to hold up in December,” reports The Hill. This week it became the fourth of those wind projects allowed by a judge to resume construction, the article notes, while even the fifth project “is still awaiting court proceedings.”Federal Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, issued a...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan “have created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots,” according to a recent announcement. The announcement calls them “microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings, operate for months and cost just a penny each.” Barely visible to the naked eye, each...
We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis
We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available,...
“A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station,” reports ScienceAlert, “and the changes these ‘bugs’ experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections…”Scientists aboard the space station incubated different combinations of bacteria and phages for 25 days, while the research team led by biochemist Vatsan...
A decades-long study suggested that close relationships with family members during teenage years could lead to a rich network of friendships in adulthood.