Renowned South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi has won the 2026 Hasselblad Award, the prestigious international photography prize presented annually in Gothenburg, Sweden.
US ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, was called in for a formal diplomatic demarche following comments the government described as “undiplomatic”
Police in Mpumalanga are investigating a suspected domestic violence incident after a man allegedly shot and killed his wife and 3-year-old son, attempted to kill four others and then turned the gun on himself.
One of five family members who died in a horrific accident between a hatchback and a Zimbabwe-bound bus near East London had been preparing for a family member’s funeral when she lost her life.
ANC deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane has not ruled out the possibility of getting into talks with Cope leaders to try and bring them back into the fold.
South Africa issued a diplomatic protest to the new US ambassador to Pretoria over his recent criticism of the government, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries.
Joburg mayor humorously urged UDF leader Bantu Holomisa to stop his party’s councillor from filing motions of no confidence against him. Morero also honoured Lekota’s decades-long contribution to South Africa’s struggle against apartheid
As Cape Town sweltered in Wednesday’s heat, the temperature in one of the classrooms in Siyabulela Primary School topped 40°C. But grade 7 pupil Cebu Mnqwazi and his friends could escape to the school’s “pocket forest”, where the temperature was just 29°C.
A UN watchdog warned on Wednesday that racist hate speech by US President Donald Trump and other political leaders, coupled with intensified immigration crackdowns, was fuelling grave rights violations.
Late payments from the South African government are worsening, placing severe cash-flow pressure on small businesses and threatening their sustainability, jobs, and broader economic stability.
While Washington sent a culture warrior to lecture Pretoria, the SA president was in Brazil pitching South Africa as a gateway to Africa. The divorce is getting expensive.
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For 1,400 days, a wildlife film crew lived and worked in Zambia’s Nsefu sector, documenting the lives of lions, leopards, hyenas and wild dogs in one of the most socially complex predator landscapes in Africa. What emerged was not just a study of survival, but a layered portrait of family, conflict, resilience and the strange […]