Pope Leo XIV on Friday named a former undocumented migrant as bishop of West Virginia, weeks after a high-profile verbal confrontation with US President Donald Trump.

Forget the old image of humans marching out from the savannah. A coastal origin story from the southern Cape places women, children, shellfish and the sea at the heart of human innovation and migration.

It fringes the Cape Town shoreline and stretches north for more than 1,000km into Namibia. A biodiversity engine, nursery, shelter and breeding ground for manifold forms of life, this is a significant national asset that we need to protect.

The South African Post Office (SAPO) is inching its way out of business rescue with a familiar promise: reinvention. But beneath the language of ‘strategic pivots’ and ‘digital platforms’, a more uncomfortable truth lingers – the plan is heavy on direction and light on execution.

In Colombia, a critical mass of countries came together at a conference to map a fossil fuel phaseout, with an energy thought leader reporting that the Iran war has ‘broken’ fossil fuel markets, pushing countries towards more secure renewable energy alternatives.

Look under the hood and things can get pretty murky. Kees Beyers told me how Woolworths, in particular, had treated him and his chocolate company, after he sought partnerships with other retailers.

China’s new zero-tariff policy now encompasses 53 African countries, including South Africa, and will be in place until April 2028.

The state’s proposed overhaul of South Africa’s (SA’s) capital controls finally brings the crypto sector into the regulatory fold. But between missing thresholds, peer-to-peer transaction bans, and widespread panic over state confiscation, the draft is a messy mix of overreach and libertarian pearl-clutching.

The commission’s regulatory review project asks which rules are still necessary, and which are holding the economy back, and to identify changes that lower regulatory compliance costs, reduce delays and open markets to more participants.

The Constitutional Court’s ruling that the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) cannot issue binding directives weakens one of South Africa’s most accessible human rights institutions, shifting the burden of enforcement onto those least able to carry it. In doing so, it underscores a deeper reality: that access to justice in SA remains uneven, often shaped less by rights than by...

Slovo Park, a township south of Johannesburg between Eldorado Park and Lenasia, tells the same story of failure and neglect experienced by so many other communities further away from the economic hub and public eye of Johannesburg