Today’s struggles are different in form but not in substance. Students rightly challenge inequality and injustice, but student leadership in this era must extend beyond protest. It must embrace proposition, negotiation and solution-building.

South African motorists face a sharp rise in petrol and diesel prices, driven by soaring global oil costs, despite a temporary cut in the fuel levy to ease the pain.

The doping violation hearing for Springbok prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye won’t be finalised until the end of April at least.

Jozi has an extraordinary mix of African, European and Asian influences, thanks to thousands of years of continental migration, a torrid colonial past, a fierce history of resistance, global trade and a democratic commitment to multiculturalism. Here’s a quick pick of some of the inner city’s most iconic heritage and cultural experiences.

South African rugby fans will have welcomed the news that the Bulls and Stormers will travel to Europe this week with strong squads – and essentially a fighting chance of winning their respective Champions Cup playoffs.

Eleven men have been found guilty on a raft of charges – including murder – in connection with a 2022 cash-in-transit heist in Rosettenville, in which eight people were killed.

As foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks continue to rise, the Department of Agriculture’s strategy is on containment, rather than eradicating.

Weeks after pledging to end child stunting by 2030, President Cyril Ramaphosa has kick-started a task team to drive this urgent national mission. But what concrete steps could the government actually take to end stunting? Spotlight sat down for an in-depth interview with one of the country’s leading experts on the issue.

Beijing expressed “gratitude” on Tuesday for coordination that enabled three Chinese ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway which Iran has all but closed during the war in the Middle East.

A Malaysian court on Tuesday ordered jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to pay $1.3 billion to a former unit of scandal-tainted state fund 1MDB, state media reported.

People accused of spying or cooperating with “hostile states” could face the death penalty and confiscation of all assets under a recently enhanced law, an Iranian judiciary spokesperson said, a month into the war with the United States and Israel.