Donald Trump’s increasingly bizarre energies putting his stamp on the public spaces of the national capital, along with an increasingly erratic approach to foreign and domestic policies, are generating dangerous drift and confusion in governance.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Civil Society Coalition staged a protest for better governance, insisting on competent leadership and urgent action to address the city’s crumbling infrastructure and service delivery issues.

MK party chief whip Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, who was charged with fraud on Thursday, has a previous conviction for the same offence. She’s accused of taking money from her employees’ salaries to support Jacob Zuma, money that the State alleges Zuma never received.

Water levels in nearly one-third of the boreholes investigated in a recent global study are dropping steadily, mainly due to unsustainable pumping rates to irrigate crops or to supply the human population and industrial growth.

How women are treated during childbirth tells us a great deal about the state of our healthcare system.

Children and teens stuck in the backlog for late registration of birth applications at the Department of Home Affairs often experience life in limbo, struggling to access the same opportunities and services as their peers with documentation.

Politics, a lack of leadership and bad government management are all obstacles that businesses need to navigate to thrive in South Africa’s economy, says Business Leadership South Africa’s Busisiwe Mavuso.

A clueless mayor. A huge unpaid power bill. A vanishing chunk of budget. Doling out R10-billion for wages we can’t afford. Hiring hundreds of fresh executives instead of fixing crumbling infrastructure. This is what a living, breathing, crying tragedy looks like.

South Africa’s two major private hospital groups, Netcare and Life Healthcare, have delivered improved half-year earnings despite a stubbornly muted recovery in hospital volumes, underscoring how the sector is leaning on cost control, tariffs, technology, specialist services and capital discipline to keep profits moving.

It is not true that Namibia has leapfrogged SA in green hydrogen, but our former colony is currently further along in developing green hydrogen assets, drafting legislation, and securing green ammonia offtake agreements while Mzansi is still in the talk shop.

The hike in the repo rate to 7% by the South African Reserve Bank reflects rising inflationary pressures from the war in Iran, setting the stage for financial strain on households.

Residents in Johannesburg face immediate water outages as bursts and planned maintenance coincide, leading to school closures and urgent calls for accountability from local authorities.

Madagascar’s top court on Thursday dismissed an opposition lawmaker’s attempt to oust the country’s military ruler, ruling that the challenge fell outside the constitution.