As youth unemployment scales new heights and foundational literacy falters, the JumpStart Foundation’s dual-intervention model turns jobless school-leavers into academic lifelines.

Air pollution claims roughly 42,000 South African lives every year — yet more than half of our government-owned monitoring stations are completely offline. Now the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has launched an ambitious new R625m proposal to overhaul this strategic grid, hand the reins over to the South African Weather Service and give a boost to environmental governance.

New Zealand return to the World Cup for the first time since 2010, but Belgium are the favourites in Group G. Joining them are Egypt, who seek a first World Cup win and Iran, who face an uncertain campaign against the backdrop of the ongoing war.

Anti-immigrant protests have already caused deaths on the Garden Route

Offshore wind has become an attractive energy source across the globe, but in South Africa there are challenges.

Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Gary van Niekerk has levelled perjury allegations against ACDP councillor Lance Grootboom, who in response dismissed them as a ‘deflection tactic’.

Student debt is creating a vicious circle where graduates are unable to secure employment without certificates and universities are unable to recover outstanding fees.

Facing threats from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to withhold funding, Johannesburg’s city manager, Dr Floyd Brink, told Parliament that rising revenue collections had stabilised the city’s finances. But its municipal entities have written off at least R45bn in fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

BEIRUT, June 9 (Reuters) – Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least eight people, the Lebanese health ministry said, and minutes later ordered the evacuation of the entire city for the first time.

An administrative blunder by EFF leader Julius Malema’s legal team has handed the PA’s Kenny Kunene an early courtroom victory after Malema’s defamation case was struck from the roll.

June 9 (Reuters) – In a first, a Navy surface drone found and rescued two crew members from an Army Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman’s coast, the U.S. military told Reuters, and President Donald Trump said the pilots were “fine.”

A witness testifying before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry under a pseudonym for security reasons says he knew organised crime accused Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala as an informant who provided tip-offs on successful operations. Matlala now faces several serious criminal charges alongside senior police officers.

Here are the Powerball and Powerball Plus Xtra for Tuesday, 9 June.

A seemingly light-hearted comment from Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen’s chief of staff about farmers’ foot-and-mouth disease concerns has triggered a serious discussion on South Africa’s vaccination strategy.

Mexico coach Javier Aguirre has selected a team that is balanced in every sense of the word. From experience blended with youth, to tactical fluidity across most positions. The team’s Achilles heel may be playing in front of an expectant home crowd.

The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim question: what happens when confiscation saves plants only long enough for them to die?

Pampallis, an educationist, historian and architect of the South African Schools Act, devoted his life to dismantling apartheid’s grip on the classroom.

Inside Zimbabwe’s Shangani Holistic, a 65,000-hectare ‘living laboratory’, scientists and farmers are exploring how cattle, wildlife and people can coexist on the same land.

Environmental law watchdogs are pushing back against government plans to introduce a more ‘flexible’ environmental impact assessment (EIA) process, warning that the proposed changes could weaken public participation, undermine proper assessment and increase the incentives for corruption.