Middle East tension has pushed up energy prices and boosted demand for South African coal, raising questions about climate commitments and exports

Gauteng experienced a notable 15% decrease in murders and a 9.9% drop in rape cases but kidnapping increased by 1.6% and sexual assault by 5.2%

Johannesburg’s World Cup legacy draws a picture of decline from 2010 pride to 2026 pressure, with financial strain clearly visible.

Poachers are also targeting South Africa’s rare plants. Recent arrests reveal a growing crime to which all of us might be complicit.

Bafana Bafana mentor Hugo Broos will go into the 2026 FIFA World Cup as one of the oldest coaches, but who holds that record?

Hugo Broos has returned to Mexico for the first time in 40 years, but this time he will lead Bafana Bafana as head coach.

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...

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

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.  

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

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

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

This vital South African sector unexpectedly bled R29 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Stats SA.

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

Opposition parties are highlighting the massive gap between the government’s policy goals and its capacity to execute them as it tackles migration management

Crocodile River tragedy search continues as police divers battle hippo-filled waters while looking for a third missing student.

Another fine day out for a great bunch of guys, as the annual Armadillos fixture delivered everything you’d expect and more.

The 34-year-old FIFA referee was denied entry into the US after being deemed inadmissable by the authorities.

Heat risk is about more than temperature. A new Oxford study of 205 cities found that poverty, limited infrastructure and lack of access to cooling are key factors driving urban heat vulnerability, with most of the highest-risk cities in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria’s increasingly close relationship with France marks a departure from six decades of foreign policy aimed at reducing French influence in West Africa. An increasingly close relationship with a power that has long sought to undermine Nigerian influence in West Africa will benefit only politically connected business elites.

South Africa has a structural unemployment problem that is not primarily caused by increased labour migration.