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The official opposition is adamant parliament does not have to wait for state capture commission chairperson chief ...
Last week the state capture commission led by chief justice Raymond Zondo delivered part 4 of its report.
"We shouldn’t second guess them, they are better placed than all of us to tell no lies and claim no easy victories," ...
Despite former mayor of Johannesburg Geoff Makhubo being deceased, those who possibly conspired with him in the ...
Former minister of public enterprises Lynne Brown, along with former president Jacob Zuma, were key figures in enabling ...
Chief justice Raymond Zondo, in a scathing report on the capture of Eskom by the Guptas, has recommended their ...
The commission into state capture, headed by chief justice Raymond Zondo, has recommended that President Cyril ...
The presidency will formally receive the fourth part of the state capture commission report on Friday morning.
ANC national chairperson and mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe says he has no regrets about ...
Former president Jacob Zuma, mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe, former minister Nomvula Mokonyane ...
The late former Bosasa COO Gavin Watson thought that with former president Jacob Zuma by his side, he was invincible. ...
The next volume of the state capture inquiry report will be released publicly at "around 7pm", the presidency said on ...
News, facts, figures, interviews, views and analysis of the impact of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape floods
Vandalism of critical water infrastructure is draining Cape Town’s coffers.
Higher education minister Blade Nzimande has revealed that five courses offered by the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) ...
"We need to be ambassadors of anti-racism to the world. Our generation needs to be different in every way," said the ...
Two of SA's top private schools scrapped their annual derby day on Saturday after allegations of a racist slur during a ...
The crime of apartheid (declared in 1966 by the UN) has largely gone unpunished since SA's transition in 1996. Most ...
The father of the Stellenbosch University student targeted in a racist incident says the proposed commission of inquiry ...
An Eastern Cape sheriff has been slapped with an eight-year jail sentence for stealing close to R1m from a trust ...
The occupants of a fully laden taxi burned to death in a pile-up involving nine vehicles on the N3 in KwaZulu-Natal on ...
More than one in five adults in the US could suffer from long Covid and vaccines offer limited protection against it, ...
The regulations which prohibited the sale, dispensing and distribution of liquor during 2020 were necessary for ...
In this weekly segment of bite-sized chunks of useful information, consumer journalist Wendy Knowler summarises news ...
Parents may unwittingly undermine the protection a child car seat offers in the winter months.
A record number of complaints about bank conduct was received by the ombudsman for banking services (OBS) last year, ...
Massive chicken price hikes have seen many South Africans ditch their favourite protein source for cheaper processed ...
It’s right and fair to pay debts to your credit providers, but when a debt has been written off by the company and ...
Visa facilitation centres have not yet ramped up their operations sufficiently to accommodate the increase in bookings ...
A supermarket bakery filled hot dog rolls with artificial cream, topped them with colourful sprinkles and called them ...
Consumer journalist Wendy Knowler’s ‘Watch-outs of the week’.
At least 31 people died in Nigeria on Saturday during a stampede at a church in the southern Rivers state, a police ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has summoned Rwanda's ambassador and suspended RwandAir flights to Congo in ...
Since the first human case of monkeypox in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disease has been ...
The human affinity for blood sport is both ancient and long standing. But there is an even more distressing angle to ...
Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past week between the army and M23 rebel group has forced ...
The African Development Bank is looking to source around 500,000 tonnes of fertiliser for west Africa by the end of ...
A group of Southern African countries where two thirds of the world’s African Elephants live rowed back from a threat ...
Zambia’s new business-friendly president faces a dilemma: risk a political backlash by returning mining shafts seized ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa is on Friday expected to undertake a working visit to Equatorial Guinea to attend the African ...
The acting director of Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday that he hoped vaccine hoarding, as seen by ...
Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth more than $11.5m last ...
Mudiwa Gavaza speaks to Frans Hiemstra, GM for Sub-Saharan Africa at Uber
Russian forces have stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk after claiming to have captured ...
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Some prominent infectious disease experts are pushing for faster action from global health authorities to contain a ...
The Iranian army has given some details - but not the exact location - of an underground base for its military drones, ...
China's foreign minister signed a deal with Samoa on Saturday to strengthen diplomatic relations, while Australia's new ...
Bubs Australia Ltd plans to ship at least 1.25 million cans of its baby formula to the United States to help ease a ...
US President Joe Biden has vowed to do everything in his power to fight record-setting petrol and diesel prices, but ...
Tornado watches have been posted in the US from Maryland to North Carolina.
Japan aims to "drastically strengthen" its military capabilities, according to an economic policy draft seen by ...
The administration of US President Joe Biden is planning to cancel $10,000 in student debt per borrower.
Russia is on the cusp of a unique kind of debt crisis which investors say would be a first time a major emerging market ...
Malaria remains a menace across Africa. The continent carries by far the world’s largest disease burden: 94% of cases ...
Twitter Inc investors blocked the re-election of an ally of Elon Musk to the board at an annual meeting on Wednesday
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The discovery of a prehistoric crocodile fossil in Peru from around 7 million years ago has given paleontologists more ...
Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an ...
Twitter Inc published its account on Tuesday of its deal negotiations with Elon Musk
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44-billion cash deal for Twitter Inc was "temporarily on hold" while he waits for ...
Chilean scientists successfully recovered one of the world's most complete ichthyosaur fossils with intact embryos from ...
Apple's iPod, a groundbreaking device that upended the music and electronics industries more than two decades ago, is ...
Paramedics in England are being trained to use 3D-printed jet suits to reach stranded casualties.
An unmanned Chinese cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Tuesday in the sixth ...
European Union citizens would like the 27-nation bloc to become fairer, show greater solidarity, lead the fight against ...