One case of the infection has been confirmed in a laboratory, and there are five additional suspected cases, the organization said on Sunday.

With trust in government and democratic institutions at historic lows and nearly half of voters feeling unrepresented, South Africa approaches its most challenging local election in decades with many showing a desire for alternatives to established parties.

Six months before the 2026 local government elections, the DA seems to have stolen a march on opposing parties in the Johannesburg race as its mayoral hopeful, Helen Zille, sets the agenda with a series of campaigning tricks.

Tokyo and Pretoria are strengthening ties against the background of an unstable world.

Thieves recently broke into the Lyttelton Military Base in Pretoria and stole R4 rifles and a grenade launcher. It’s not the first time the base has been burgled – a previous case was an inside job – and there have been several other crimes targeting the army.

A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many...

This May, UNESCO World Press Freedom Day and RightsCon were supposed to come together in Zambia against a backdrop of deep anxiety about the future of journalism and about whether anything resembling a shared digital public space can survive the next decade. Puzzlingly – or perhaps tellingly – the 5,000-people conference about human rights and freedom of expression was cancelled at the last...

South Africa relinquished their 100m and 400m men’s titles at the World Athletics Relays on 2 and 3 May, but the winner was Africa after host nation Botswana delivered a great spectacle in Gaborone.