VIENNA, May 12 (Reuters) – The Eurovision Song Contest gets off to a tense start in Vienna on Tuesday with the first semi-final featuring Israel, whose attendance prompted five countries to boycott over the Gaza war, though an initial street protest was barely noticeable.

The Treasury’s criticism of the Auditor-General exposes a deeper contradiction at the heart of South Africa’s accountability system: the very institution complaining about compliance burdens designed many of the rules now under attack. While there are legitimate flaws in the state’s performance management framework, the AG’s latest findings suggest the bigger danger is not excessive...

The term, impeachment, is being bandied about these days in various countries because of the behaviour of some very senior officials, but what, exactly, is an impeachment? What does it mean, and where did it come from? Let’s take a quick deep dive into this question (to enable readers to speak with knowledgeable authority to friends).

Nelson Mandela Bay could be placed under provincial administration if it fails to resolve a leadership crisis over suspended city manager Noxolo Nqwazi, Cogta MEC Zolile Williams has warned.

From Sea Monster’s global King’s Trust International entrepreneurship game to FinMaster’s pizza-box-to-retail board game journey, South African developers are showing that financial literacy may stick better when it feels less like homework and more like play.

Starmer and Ramaphosa rose to power as corrective figures, promising stability after years of chaos and institutional decay. Now both risk becoming symbols of drift themselves, as public frustration, weak growth and populist challengers expose the widening gap between political caution and effective leadership.

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By all accounts, Hasina Subedar is who you call when you need to roll out, well, anything new in public health. Known for her grit, grace and humour, the non-conformist middle child from Pietermaritzburg started out as a nurse 30 years ago. She is now responsible for getting the game-changer medication for HIV prevention into 360 clinics around the country.

An unemployment rate of more than 30% is the ‘new normal’ for South Africa, an insidious indicator that has defined this decade and Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency. And it could yet scale and surpass the record of 35.3% reached in Q4 2021.

Tebogo ‘ProVerb’ Thekisho captured an audience with the charm of an uncle you wish you had. The laidback storyteller is one of South Africa’s most recognisable voices, having spent decades in the entertainment industry. While many were introduced to him as the host of IdolsSA or through his clean conscious hip-hop, he has never been confined to one lane. His career spans business, writing...

Whenever there is a dispute involving a big corporate you can tell how serious it is by the level of the person involved. And when the CEO has to step into the ring you know that things have escalated, that whatever is going on has come to pose some kind of risk to the business.

While flooding across several provinces has been declared a national disaster, farmers in the Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape are struggling to come to terms with their devastating losses.

The hacking group that targeted the Canvas educational tool and the parent company that owns the software struck a deal to secure stolen student and school ‌data, the company said in a statement late on Monday.