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Poachers who leave no carcasses: A crime often overlooked
Poachers are also targeting South Africa’s rare plants. Recent arrests reveal a growing crime to which all of us might be complicit.

FIFA World Cup: Who are the oldest and youngest coaches at the finals?
Bafana Bafana mentor Hugo Broos will go into the 2026 FIFA World Cup as one of the oldest coaches, but who holds that record?

FIFA World Cup: Hugo Broos, 11 June, Estadio Azteca – facts
Hugo Broos has returned to Mexico for the first time in 40 years, but this time he will lead Bafana Bafana as head coach.

Africa’s conservation models struggle to shake colonial yoke
Two of the continent’s premier game reserves – Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve and South Africa’s Kruger National Park – stand on the frontlines of species loss, working tirelessly to protect wildlife under the shadow of rising extinction threats. Yet they also reveal how different leadership approaches to park management can shape conservation success, advance inclusivity, and...

Kenya’s Ebola case and the politics of contagion
The Kenyan court’s decision should be read well beyond Kenya. Across Africa, governments will need to negotiate such arrangements with greater care, more transparency and a firmer sense of constitutional discipline and national interest

Are Africans welcome at the World Cup?
African music megastars Tyla and Rema are scheduled to perform at the World Cup’s opening ceremony in Los Angeles. But while African music and soccer are welcome at the tournament, many African fans and journalists, it would seem, are not.

News24 | ‘No grievance can justify violence’: Churches condemn attacks on foreign nationals
As anti-immigrant tensions continue to simmer across South Africa, the South African Council of Churches has warned that no grievance, however legitimate, can justify violence and intimidation against foreign nationals.

President Ramaphosa’s migration speech gets the diagnosis right: The real test is whether South Africa has the system to deliver
Migration outcomes are largely determined by the quality of the systems into which migrants enter. When any one of the systems underperforms, the pressures become amplified. When several fail simultaneously, migration become politically explosive

The anxious money wait: Why African soccer fans dread payment disputes before major tournaments like the Fifa World Cup
For millions of fans, a familiar cloud of anxiety looms — not over tactics or form but over something far more basic: whether players will be paid what they are owed by their football federations

Which foreigners are unwelcome in South Africa?
The lack of clarity about which foreigners must go has translated into the victimisation of some who are not targets, including South Africans who look like those who are unwelcome

News24 | Palestinians caught between ‘atrocities’ of Israel, settlers, Hamas, UN report finds
Palestinian civilians are caught between “mass atrocities” of Israeli forces, settlers and Hamas’ brutal rule, a UN-mandated inquiry said.

The sector suppressing South Africa’s fragile economic recovery
This vital South African sector unexpectedly bled R29 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Stats SA.

Toyota Cup launched, Kaizer Chiefs’ opponents confirmed
This year’s Toyota Cup will feature two former Kaizer Chiefs attackers in Knowledge Musona and Khama Billiat.

News24 | 74 Zimbabweans flee xenophobia in Mossel Bay in bus laid on by home country
After five days of police protection at the Mossel Bay Municipality Hall in the Western Cape, Primrose Sibanda finally made it to Zimbabwe unscathed amid xenophobic attacks.

The president has spoken but whether he can deliver hangs in the balance
Opposition parties are highlighting the massive gap between the government’s policy goals and its capacity to execute them as it tackles migration management