For years, the waters of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic were a data blind spot. A local programme helped change that.

From the changing demand for flight tickets to kale chips, the impact of higher fuel prices on our discretionary income is evident everywhere. And those prices look set to rise even further.

Ahead of the EFF’s election campaign, Julius Malema clarified his parliamentary praise for former Idac head Andrea Johnson and denied shielding Crime Intelligence’s Feroz Khan from ad hoc committee probes.

For 180 years, South Africa’s oldest newspaper, The Herald, has chronicled the people, politics and events that have shaped the Eastern Cape. Now, along with sister publication Daily Dispatch, the historic titles face an uncertain future after their new owners failed to pay staff salaries.

An anonymous threat and conflicting testimony marked another dramatic day in former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption trial, giving the defence fresh ammunition to challenge the State’s case.

Former Idac boss Andrea Johnson resigned due to her disastrous testimony at the Madlanga Commission, but she’ll have to provide more evidence after one of her employees made damning allegations against her on Thursday.

Embarrassed by the scandal surrounding his premier crime-fighting unit, the National Prosecuting Authority head, Andy Mothibi, says, ‘Give me six months’ to fix it.

Outside the usual complaints about incompetence and cadre deployment, Business Leadership South Africa and the SA Institution of Civil Engineering are making commitments and coming up with solid ideas to steer failing local governments away from the abyss.

Baby Eli Theron was born three months early, weighing as much as a loaf of bread. Eight blood transfusions later, he’s a healthy, happy one-year-old — thanks to donors in Nelson Mandela Bay.

South Africans are easy to please — all we want is some semblance of progress, efficiency and good governance. The speed at which Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana moved to get a new Public Investment Corporation board in place ticks two boxes; now for the third.

A new privately funded aerodrome costing between R400m and R500m is being developed on Cape Town’s northern edge, with its first phase expected to open in September 2026.