If anyone is capable of turning around the National Prosecuting Agency, it might just be advocate Hermione Cronje — which is why her appointment may be too much to hope for.

Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have launched their third annual festive season campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape. This year’s focus is on supporting three holiday programmes. These initiatives are crucial for keeping children safe and fed during the school break, especially since the regular school nutrition programme is suspended for the year.

Advocate Xolisile Khanyile, advocate Hermione Cronje and advocate Menzi Simelane were in the hot seat on Thursday, vying for the post of National Director of Public Prosecutions. Here are the best and worst moments.

Six things you need to know about the ANC’s National General Council.

Tulbagh residents, who live in the heart of the Winelands in the Western Cape, complain that their tap water runs brown and smells like human excrement, causing children to fall ill. The municipality, however, insists the water is clean.

Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, minister in the Presidency, on Wednesday, 10 November, announced the Cabinet’s approval of the National Strategy to Accelerate Action for Children.

After a year in office, Mayor Babalwa Lobishe achieved a fraction of her set targets to improve service delivery in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro. This has poked holes in her leadership of the municipality, which is now receiving support from national government under Section 154 of the Constitution. Lobishe announced a list of 85 key deliverables under the ‘All Hands on Deck’ programme that she...

Little has been done to reduce alcohol-related harm since 2017, even though the Covid-19 pandemic made plain the risks associated with weak regulation of alcohol sales and consumption.

South Africa is finally waking up to the rail revolution at an industrial scale, and doing road-to-rail swaps on the Great Escarpment makes so much sense it even lured investment bankers to the Midlands.

The National Treasury announced the payment of R546m to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality as its equitable share for December, despite previously threatening to withhold it due to the municipality’s significant R30bn crisis involving unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. Chair of the NMB Municipal Public Accounts Committee Luxolo Namette is planning monthly meetings...

Artillery rounds echoed in the distance as Thai rubber tapper Boonkerd Yoodeerum settled into a folding bed, sheltering with his family under a bridge near the Cambodia border where fighting has erupted once more.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado appeared in Oslo, climbing barriers outside her hotel to hug well-wishers after the Venezuelan opposition figure failed to reach the Norwegian capital in time to receive her award at a ceremony held hours earlier.

The deserts of Iraq are no joke, especially when your job is to disarm bombs in conflict zones. In his new book, Nelson Mandela Bay’s RJ Malan sheds light on the life of bomb disposal units.

For the middle class, for the first time in a while, things are really beginning to look up. Trouble is, very little of the good news at the top level of the economy is getting through to the vast majority of our people.

Greedy local financial service giants and offshore betting pirates are helping drive our vast and fast-growing online gambling crisis, while the industry is also shaping up to be a major money laundering risk.