The proposal highlights that South Africa’s universities and technical and vocational education and training colleges can become productive economic nodes distributed across all provinces

Amid the mostly depressing HIV headlines of recent times, concerned as they mainly are with the deadly impacts of donor defunding, South Africa’s imminent roll-out of a twice-yearly HIV prevention injection called lenacapavir (LEN) has been a spot of bright light.  Staff in 360 healthcare facilities spread across the country stand trained and ready to […]

While management at Stellenbosch University projected stability and excellence, students, auditors and internal oversight bodies warned of chronic debt, unsafe housing, National Student Financial Aid Scheme failures and slow transformation

Spain on Monday said it took “all measures” to prevent hantavirus spreading from evacuees on a cruise ship hit by the virus, after French and US nationals tested positive.

The Madlanga commission has heard how the Hawks intercepted nearly a tonne of cocaine shipped from Brazil to Johannesburg in July 2021, after an initial intervention by Gauteng traffic officers

Several universities are facing deepening governance crises marked by institutional capture, leadership instability and weakened accountability systems, say higher education leaders and a Universities South Africa report

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has called on Niger’s Russian-backed military government to lift its sudden suspension of nine French media outlets. This coincides with major instability in neighbouring Mali.

The memory of the Covid-19 shock shapes how governments and publics react to any new outbreak with even a hint of international spread

Africa’s growing gambling use is sapping income that would ordinarily be flowing into groceries, entertainment and mobile phone bills. The leaders of the continent’s largest companies are now warning about the harm the trend is inflicting on household budgets.

Before he opened fire on the Florida State University campus in 2025, killing two people and wounding six others, Phoenix Ikner had a conversation – with an AI chatbot.

All schools in the Western Cape will be closed on Tuesday as severe weather conditions continue to batter the province.