Driving east through Cogmanskloof on Route 62, the first town you find is Montagu, spread out like a shiny welcome mat into the Klein Karoo.

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JAKARTA, June 10 (Reuters) – Deadly floods and landslides in Indonesia’s Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, a new report released on Wednesday showed.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The Trump administration defended its sanctions on Cuba on Wednesday after the United Nations’ human rights chief warned US actions were causing “widespread harm to the population and endangering lives.”

OTTAWA, June 10 (Reuters) – The Canadian government introduced a digital safety bill on Wednesday that would ban social media for children under 16 with exemptions for platforms that meet certain safety standards, months after Australia enacted the world’s first social media ban for young people.

DAKAR, June 10 (Reuters) – Congo’s Ebola outbreak has spread to a new health zone in the northeastern province of Ituri, authorities said on Wednesday, as fresh infections underline sustained transmission more than three weeks after the epidemic was declared.

As members of Cape Town’s municipal planning tribunal can now effectively serve for life (as revealed in Part 1 of this series), Daily Maverick interrogates the tribunal’s lack of official employment records, the basis of its apparent property ‘development-above-all-else’ policy, and why it is withholding a critical legal opinion for which ordinary Capetonians have paid.

When Crime Intelligence head Major-General Feroz Khan launched an ex parte application seeking a ‘super injunction’ to place court proceedings in camera, he did not count on the Madlanga Commission’s swift legal pushback.

This series on the gardens has had, within 48 hours, nearly 80,000 readers, and provoked an unprecedented number of written comments. It’s an indication of both deep love and concern for Kirstenbosch and the way ahead.In researching these stories, we received many suggestions about what a range of people – specialists to tourists – think should be done to make Kirstenbosch better. We...

Amnesty International has accused Israel of pursuing a state-led campaign of annexation and ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, warning that the forced displacement of Palestinian communities has intensified sharply since 2023. The organisation’s latest report argues that international inaction is enabling violations of international law and calls for urgent measures to halt further...

The DA’s Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, Khathu Rasilingwane, has pledged to root out corruption, improve service delivery and restore accountability as the party intensifies its campaign to secure outright control of the metro in November’s local government elections.

SAPS says it’s too early to link the mass shooting in Cleveland, Johannesburg, to illegal mining, but community leaders and political parties say syndicates refining illicit gold in the area are a primary driver of local bloodshed.

In a pivotal court case, the UCT Children’s Institute challenges Home Affairs over delays in late birth registrations, asserting that undocumented children face severe rights violations.

Commissioners and evidence leaders at the Madlanga Commission challenged Witness I’s claim that he went to the scene of a R286m cocaine bust because it related to a previous investigation. They questioned whether he was there to legitimise an attempt by law enforcement officials to steal the drugs.

Two Mexican sports journalists who were arrested in Gauteng, allegedly because they flew a drone over a Jewish college, have pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and returned home. They say they were considered terrorists and kept behind bars for a week.