There was a strong chance that all four wards being contested in the latest round of by-elections could have changed hands, but in the end only one did.

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Beneath the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital overpass in Soweto, a cluster of homeless people quietly nurse the weight of regret. Once swept up in a haze of criminal actions, they now cling to the ...

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

South Africa’s vital wetlands are degrading faster than investment in their rehabilitation. As a result, they are facing catastrophic decline. This follows a global trend of wetland decline, a key ...

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box.

At a market cap of just above two trillion dollars, Bitcoin is probably never going to upset the global asset value pecking order, but this latest surge makes it more valuable than Amazon – with Apple ...

The money is not nearly enough to put two to four million people per year in South Africa on the lenacapavir jab, and even if it were, the country’s health system won’t be able to roll out the ...

Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.

Across South Africa, a growing movement of student-led environmental action is reshaping schools and communities. Supported by the TUI Care Foundation and Masifunde, young ‘Eco Champions’ are tackling ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, mostly ...