Municipalities must perform, and where they don’t, there must be real consequences

The platforms have grown in popularity, with some users making bets on global events.

The UK’s largest bird charity has issued new guidance advising people to stop using feeders to help wildlife thrive.

The scheme, to fast-track cases and to cut the court backlog, is being expanded in England and Wales.

The Bronx-born rapper’s global hit Planet Rock is credited with shaping hip-hop in the 1980s.

US First Lady Melania Trump is splashed across several of the papers, after she made a surprise White House address on Thursday.

Both sides have reason to end the war but share no common ground.

Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation

In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he tells a personal story on a performed kinship, ordinary horror and the meaning of belonging

Party structures across provinces are coordinating for supporters expected to gather outside the East London magistrates court, where proceedings will resume before magistrate Twanett Olivier

As the global order becomes more multipolar, opportunities for African agency are expanding. Yet these opportunities will only translate into meaningful influence if African states strengthen their coordination, develop sophisticated negotiating strategies and engage proactively in shaping the rules of global governance

Hill-Lewis remains the overwhelming favourite to replace John Steenhuisen as DA federal leader but Dyanase’s candidacy has turned the race into a debate over internal democracy

Blending jazz, folk and indigenous instrumentation, Zawadi crafts a sound that reconnects audiences to heritage while confronting the politics of the present

Bulelwa Jordan-Tati reflects on crafting meaningful spaces and shares her views on interior design trends for 2026

Twenty-one years on, the Kabelo Sello Duiker Foundation launches to return his urgent, unflinching stories to a new generation

America’s scale of its invented narratives are hard to match. Trump has normalised the idea that rhetorical bombast matters more than accuracy