As pressure mounts over the real source of all those dollars, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s business and political supporters want him to stay in office, fearing what could happen if he’s forced out.
A suburb once known as a refuge for Randlords is becoming increasingly vulnerable as absentee ownership, lack of service delivery and weak municipal enforcement take their toll.
The Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, is pushing hard to extract uranium from the arid Kalahari region by pumping sulphuric acid into a transboundary aquifer shared by Namibia, South Africa and Botswana.
SAA’s new acting CEO is facing strong headwinds to turn the business around from the cliff face it was about to crash into – but he is confident that he can do it, without a bailout.
The ongoing leadership vacuum in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro raises concerns as Parliament investigates irregular job hiring and the absence of an acting city manager.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern” after more than 300 suspected cases and 88 deaths were reported.
Following court battles and power cuts, the Gauteng Department of Education is reviewing its decentralised funding model, arguing that school governing bodies lack the financial expertise to manage soaring municipal bills.
Nelson Mandela Bay officials ignored two warnings about an expiring fuel contract, resulting in a crisis as the city faced severe flooding and emergency response delays.
With its upcoming Conference of the Left, the South African Communist Party must confront its history and embrace a more radical, anti-capitalist stance to effectively challenge the status quo.
The SAWS has issued a strong weather warning of damaging coastal winds expected between Table Bay and Cape Agulhas into Tuesday, leading to dangerous conditions at sea. In other provinces, it will be cloudy, cool to warm with thundershowers and isolated showers across parts of most other provinces.
More than 140 years after it was shipped from Scotland and assembled in Gqeberha, the Pearson Conservatory is finding new life through community care, public use and ongoing efforts to protect one of Nelson Mandela Bay’s historic landmarks.
From the Garden Route’s droughts to Limpopo’s deltas, the climate crisis is hitting Africa with ‘polycrisis’ complexity that traditional modelling fails to capture. Wits University’s Professor Laura Pereira and a global team of scientists are calling for Integrated Transformative Scenarios, a new research agenda designed to break the monopoly of Western economic assumptions and give...