As South Africa wrestles with elephant management, delays and a lack of accountability could push culling from a last resort to an all-too-possible outcome.

General Ray Lalla, former national head of Crime Intelligence during President Thabo Mbeki’s tenure, secretly recorded a meeting with officials from the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PLCU) ‘to protect the integrity of the state’, the Khampepe Commission was told.

The SAHRC inquiry into Gauteng’s water crisis exposes municipal mismanagement and systemic failures, revealing the human rights violations faced by vulnerable residents.

Data centres in South Africa are not just energy consumers; they are catalysts for economic growth, infrastructure development and job creation across cities.

Following a last-minute decision to freeze school textbook budgets just days before a statutory deadline, the Free State Department of Education has strongly defended its centralised takeover, citing chronic administrative failures and unlawful photocopying by school administrators. However, the South African Democratic Teachers Union and Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools...

Minister of Justice Mmamoloko Kubayi has said in a written answer to Parliament that the Department of Home Affairs has agreed to waive a five-year ban on Nigerian evangelist Timothy Omotoso for the National Prosecuting Authority to apply for his extradition. The NPA is awaiting the outcome of its petition to the Supreme Court of Appeal, where it has asked for leave to appeal against his...

Residents in Yeoville, Bellevue, Berea and Observatory say Egoli Gas terminated supply with little notice and no compensation.

The Western Cape Education Department has confirmed that George Gueorguiev, the Kommetjie Primary School principal at the centre of a 2025 hate speech controversy, has been transferred to a deputy principal post at Simon’s Town School.

Responsible investing has entered a more demanding phase for South African asset managers, where the work is shifting from policy statements and emissions measurement to harder questions about carbon costs, portfolio targets, proxy voting and the environmental price tag of artificial intelligence.

The timing of this El Niño event – unfolding at a rapid pace after the fading of its polar opposite La Niña, which typically drenches this region – could hardly be worse as it is looming against the backdrop of surging fuel and fertiliser prices triggered by the almost three-month long Iran conflict.

I am aware of the benefit of exercise and the inherent danger in driving and dietary overindulgences, and that my insurance company really does have my safety at heart – but I’m not always rational.