The classification of gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster in November 2025 placed the National Executive at the centre of the response. Yet the discovery of multiple women’s ...

A petition calling for the immediate creation and permanent funding of a specialised serial crime task team has been launched as South Africa reels from the deaths of nine women in Ekurhuleni. The ...

Municipal debt poses a major threat to Eskom’s financial sustainability, with the utility warning that continued non-payment is putting further pressure on its finances.

Ella Beatty stars as Lizzie Borden in the fourth instalment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Monster anthology series, ...

Mpox cases are rising in South Africa, with health authorities now reporting 22 laboratory-confirmed infections across three provinces. The latest increase has understandably raised questions about ...

With regard to Masilonyana, Scopa concluded that the municipality is “characterised by severe administrative dysfunction, poor record-keeping, and financial instability”. The committee noted that the ...

Rabbis from the Chabad of Norwood condemned a member of their congregation for his anti-Islam and racist rant outside their synagogue this week. They also reached out to the victim of the hate speech, ...

President Donald Trump laid out a vision on Tuesday of a militaristic US unbound by international rules in a UN speech contrasting starkly with pleas at the world body for cooperation and restraint.

A freak storm that residents say lasted barely a minute ripped roofs from homes in Maanskynkop street in Tafelsig in the early hours of Tuesday, leaving families terrified as relentless lightning ...

From pool cleaners to medical scanners, these five South African inventions solved practical problems and went on to make ...

Heritage is not only about preserving traditions and history, but also about protecting the knowledge, ecosystems and natural resources that future generations will inherit. In eThekwini, combining ...

For nearly a year, a teenage girl carried a devastating secret that eventually came to light in the most traumatic way imaginable. She was 15 when her stepfather, Raafiq Dove, raped her. It was only ...