Despite the City of Cape Town proposing lower rates and broader relief to offset rising property values, local bodies warned that some homeowners face much steeper valuation increases, raising affordability concerns.
South Africa’s land and mining crisis is not a technical problem – it’s political, structural and about power. Experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agreed that real reform requires giving communities collective, democratic control over their land.
And so in an attempt to settle the ethical discomfort I have with this position, I have decided to publicly curate an edition of writing filled with musicians, writers, journalists, ethnographers and music makers and listeners to tell us more about the sounds that animate the Johannesburg landscape
South African teenage girls and young women know alcohol leaves them ashamed, broke and hungover – but in a world where drinking signals belonging, “just say no” was never going to cut it.
Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza has noted with concern the “unfortunate developments” at the Ad Hoc Committee established to investigate allegations made by the KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
During the proceedings on Thursday, one of the witnesses, Paul O’Sullivan, walked out...
Ukrainian women in their 50s and 60s say they’ve embraced cheerleading as a way to cope with the extreme stress and anxiety of four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology is to be used in Northern Ireland domestic football for the first time in next month’s BetMcLean Cup final between Linfield and Glentoran at Windsor Park.
Premier League Night Four winner Stephen Bunting says Northern Ireland’s Josh Rock, who threw a nine-darter in front of his home crowd at the SSE Arena, has the ability to become world champion one day.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — A dispute over academic honors at the University of Liberia has escalated into a legal and institutional standoff, as the announced dux of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law has filed a four million United States dollars libel lawsuit against exiled Liberian activist Martin K. N. Kollie, while the University’s Board of Trustees has suspended the official...
The app reads your email inbox and your meeting calendar, then gives you a short audio summary. It can help you spend less time scrolling, but of course, there are privacy drawbacks to consider.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was appointed to the role last week, has offered to publicly endorse vaccination, in particular the measles vaccine, winning over some agency employees.