Municipal elections will decide whether cities are engines of growth or hotspots of failed governance and unemployment.

In South Africa, a calculator can easily be confused for an instrument of revolution, so best to limit its use.

Gauteng Organised Crime Unit member Sergeant Fannie Nkosi’s arrest on Friday could release the grip the alleged Big Five criminal cartels have on law enforcement and private security.

In this episode, Redi Tlhabi sits down with political economist and Signal Risk director Ronak Gopaldas for a sharp, wide-ranging conversation on the escalating tensions between the United States, Israel and Iran. Together, they unpack what the conflict reveals about shifting global power, contested moral authority, and the often-overlooked consequences for Africa.

He was so tiny that his father’s wedding ring could fit around his upper arm.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will make his fourth trip to China in as many years this month, as had been widely expected, as Madrid seeks to build on its commercial ties with the world’s second-largest economy.

South Africa’s rand soared, government bond yields tumbled and stocks jumped the most in six years as investors piled back into emerging-market assets that were worst-hit by the Middle East conflict.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit North Korea over April 9-10, his ministry said on Wednesday, signalling efforts by the East Asian neighbours to revitalise ties that chilled after the COVID‑19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Pope Leo on Wednesday praised the two-week ceasefire in the Iran war, hours after calling U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat against the population of Iran “unacceptable”.

The MK Party’s most recent secretary-general, Bongani Mncwango, has joined the IFP.