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A parliamentary clash over missing SIU reports has escalated into the opening of a criminal case, putting scrutiny on how little consequence follows corruption findings in South Africa.
Over the years working with communities across Zambia’s expansive Kafue Flats, I have seen first-hand how deeply people’s lives and culture are tied to this vast wetland. Families depend on its waters for fish, grazing land for livestock and fertile soils for farming that sustain livelihoods and economies. While it is home to the endangered Wattled […]
Deputy environment minister insists culling will only be used with approval, but MPs and animal welfare groups say governance failures and delays in humane interventions are escalating risks in South Africa’s elephant reserves
African governments generate vast quantities of citizen data, from health records to tax filings, land registries and school enrolments. Much of it leaves the continent to be processed, modelled and monetised on foreign infrastructure. The insight comes back at a premium, while the economic value remains elsewhere — and AI is accelerating this. However, this […]
Africa must embrace nuclear energy to power economic growth and meet Agenda 2063 goals
Sbahle calls in Afro-Soul royalty for ‘Some More’ Love is loud, dramatic and beautifully vulnerable on Sbahle’s new single Some More, a soulful collaboration featuring Afro-soul queens Nhlanhla Mafu and Naima Kay. At the centre of it all is Sbahle’s romantic lyric about the Drakensberg mountains standing between two lovers as she calls for them […]
A quiet conversation at the Kingsmead Book Fair became a reflection on shrinking attention spans, digital culture and the fragile future of reading
Parliament’s ad hoc committee tasked with investigating accusations that a drug cartel has infiltrated South Africa’s criminal justice system and politics has found that witness testimony put before it points to an institutional law enforcement crisis.
Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni and his co-accused appeared in the Delmas Magistrates’ Court on Thursday after their extortion case was moved from Kwaggafontein due to safety concerns. The case is proceeding despite Sibanyoni’s attempt to interdict his warrant of arrest.
Stunting in children remains an invisible crisis in SA, but a new pilot is offering a holistic approach that supports both mother and child.
‘I have become disillusioned with the manner in which governance in this administration has deteriorated under your leadership,’ says anti-apartheid stalwart Khusta Jack to Bay mayor Babalwa Lobishe.
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.
MK Party’s Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi is out on bail after allegedly defrauding parliamentary researchers of more than R233 000.
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.