Paul Ash Senior reporter

Paul Ash is a senior reporter at the Sunday Times, covering transport, environment and wildlife, farming, tourism and defence. He was a 14-year veteran of the paper's travel section before moving to the newsroom in 2020 to focus on writing, reporting and telling stories in sound.

Paul Ash Senior reporter
Even on a sunny day, signs of a dark history with Russia were all over Kyiv

Paul Ash looks back on a trip to the Ukrainian capital, where he learnt that memories of war, communism, Stalin, famine and Nazi brutality lingered

Paul Ash Senior reporter
R40 a litre petrol price fears not based on reality: economists

About 90% of cargo in SA travels by road, said Walters. “The economy is dependent on road transportation.”

Paul Ash Senior reporter
‘We’re a generous family’: Watsons slam Zondo findings as deliberate slur

Report was meant to have reputational damage for the Watsons and the ANC, they say

Paul Ash Senior reporter
Blind flight: brief history of Covid treatments, hopes and snake-oil cures

COVID AFTER TWO YEARS: In March 2020 doctors, scientists and con artists embarked on a quest for remedies

Paul Ash Senior reporter
‘Like five stages of grief’: medics hold out for Charlotte Maxeke’s reopening

Dr Suhayl Essa and hundreds like him have stumbled from one hospital to another at health department’s whim

Paul Ash Senior reporter
Bushveld town in thrall as Tom Cruise choppers in

Move over Big Five, here comes the top gun from Hollywood.

Paul Ash Senior reporter
'There was brightness then violence, blackness and water': Navy's worst tragedy ...

The SAS President Kruger was rammed by the navy replenishment vessel SAS Tafelberg 145km southwest of Cape Point on February 18 1982.

Paul Ash Senior reporter
St Helena ready to welcome first scheduled flights in almost two years

One of the world's remotest islands will have its connection to the outside restored when regional airline Airlink restarts flights in March as ...

Paul Ash Senior reporter
Human Rights Commission promises action on stinking Wemmer Pan

A child's sewage-soaked teddy bear lies amid plastic bottles and rotting waste, while an onshore breeze carries the stench of human excrement and ...

Paul Ash Senior reporter
Eskom refuses to nuke plan to revamp Koeberg despite growing opposition

Power entity spurns renewable sources opting to go ahead with refurbishments that will deprive the grid of 920MW

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