The ANC picked up two wards in the Msunduzi and Hantam municipalities to end the 2024 electoral year on a major high. In both wards they were the third-most-popular in late May during the general election. Fewer than seven months later it is the leading party in both wards.

What does the landscape and climate for creative writing and freedom of expression look like in five different African countries today? What are some of the issues that affect writers?

My leader, I wanted to talk to you about the South African Police Service and its “concomitant” failures, not due to incompetence (of course, some officers are incompetent; that’s life). Still, the glaring failure I am talking about is the design-induced failure. Of course, for five years or more, we had a jester for a police minister who enjoyed watching himself on TV but did nothing to...

The Vaal Triangle suffers from deindustrialisation, corruption, poverty and pollution. When visiting old comrades recently, we asked, were the sacrifices we made in the struggle against apartheid worth it?

Residents near Parliament in Cape Town are demanding action after being kept awake by overnight reconstruction noise. Tersia Erasmus, a local resident, criticised the lack of prior notice, saying: ‘They didn’t make the public aware that this was going to happen, they just started working.’

The story of a Bushmanland oasis centres on an elegant, sandy-toned cathedral – a tribute to French missionaries – while nearly everything in De Aar revolved around The Colossus, a steam locomotive. In Philipstown, beauty emerges from desolation.

Dec 18 (Reuters) – Montana’s top court ruled on Wednesday the state’s constitution guarantees a right to a stable climate and invalidates laws barring regulators from considering the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions when permitting fossil-fuel projects.

Sasfin’s experience shows how damaging ‘rogue’ bankers can be and demonstrates that the line between formal and underground financial systems is often merely hypothetical.

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Pressure is building on Amazon.com, opens new tab to come to the bargaining table with the Teamsters Union as thousands of workers threaten to strike during the retailer’s busy holiday selling season.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Wednesday that US lawmakers should reject a stopgap bill that would fund the government through March, raising the likelihood of a partial shutdown when current funding expires at midnight on Friday.

Wall Street closed sharply lower on Wednesday, with the Dow falling over 1,100 points after the US Federal Reserve delivered a rate cut as expected but signaled it will ease the pace of further cuts in the coming year.