[spotlight] Dr Yakub Essack's phone is on silent - a luxury for the Gauteng GP. Ever since the third wave of Coronavirus smashed into Gauteng this winter, the phone has been a permanently bleeping fixture in his hand.

[The Conversation Africa] In September each year, South Africa's Gauteng province turns purple. The cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are well covered with trees - and jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), with their purple blooms in late spring, are...

[GroundUp] Residents of Ethembeni in Khayelitsha say they urgently need ten to 15 chemical toilets

[New Frame] On Sunday 4 July 2021, two New Frame journalists, Magnificent Mndebele and Cebelihle Mbuyisa, who were on assignment in eSwatini were detained, assaulted and tortured by security forces.

[RFI] South Africa's police minister, Monday, said he was awaiting court instructions on whether to arrest ex-president Jacob Zuma, who has been given a 15-month jail term for contempt.

[Daily Maverick] You need most of the fingers on both hands to count the laws broken as a result of former president Jacob Zuma's grandstanding at Nkandla. But police could be wise not to act just yet -- as long as when they do, they target those mos...

[The Conversation Africa] Good communication and understanding of the roles of other disciplines in a health care team has been found to result in fewer medical errors, reduced medical costs and a better patient care experience.

[Nation] South African group, Hush SA are the new winners of Old Mutual Amazing Voices singing competition.

[SAnews.gov.za] Acting Health Minister Mamoloko Kubayi has described the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority's (SAHPRA) use approval of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in the country as a turning point and much-needed relief for South Afr...

[Nation] In 2018, Tlalane Ntuli started Yalu, a Johannesburg-based credit life insurer, out of frustration.

[DA] The DA welcomes the decision - taken in principle - to extend the TERS scheme for workers affected by the Level 4 lockdown regulations. But the Minister of Employment and Labour, Mr Thulas Nxesi, must shed light on the nuts and bolts of the exte...

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa says there is a need to ensure that the returns from mining are used to promote more employment-friendly activities and that they empower mineworkers and mining communities.

[SAFA] The win can be attributed to the promotion into first team of several development players and the results have been impress of late and are slowly climbing up the log after a bad start to the season.

[Daily Maverick] Jacob Zuma reiterated late on Sunday night that he was not scared of going to jail for his beliefs, saying he was prepared to be a prisoner of his conscience, as he had done when he was incarcerated on Robben Island during apartheid.

[COSATU] Industrial health care clinics in the South African clothing manufacturing industry have been certified as COVID-19 vaccine roll-out campaign sites.

[Nation] Former South African president Jacob Zuma says that there is no longer a need for him to be sent to jail.

[Daily Maverick] The next few days will bring finality to the question of whether former President Jacob Zuma will go to jail peacefully. Key to this is the question of whether he will call, allow or enable violence to be used to keep him out of jail...

[Daily Maverick] Jacob Zuma's affidavit shows he is largely the author of his own misfortune because he has accepted bad advice and behaved with the deviance of a delinquent teenager. His generally unapologetic stance is hardly going to endear him to...

[Daily Maverick] ANC leaders will hold a one-day special national executive committee meeting on Monday to talk about their weekend. Former president and convicted court-order-dodger Jacob Zuma, the man who caused the original weekend meeting to be p...

[Daily Maverick] I am not a prophet of doom, but signs are that those who hold the firm view that the judiciary is politically biased against Jacob Zuma seem prepared to throw out of the window any respect for the judiciary left in their fibre. And t...

[Daily Maverick] Those agitating and mobilising outside Nkandla would have us believe that their show of force is an act of defiance. We know better, and we see their desperate fear for what it is - an intentional affront to our rule of law and the v...

[Daily Maverick] As the sluggish Covid-19 vaccination roll-out opens for more South Africans, including the over-50s and members of the police service, the regulatory authority has approved a new vaccine while the high transmissibility of the Delta v...

[Daily Maverick] There are five reasons the decision by global mining giant Rio Tinto to declare force majeure on customer contracts at Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) is a major event in SA's business life, and much more significant than a short-term co...

[Daily Maverick] The third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has ripped through families in Gauteng, the province at the pandemic epicentre, hitting many who escaped the first two waves. Three families describe how they are coping.

[DA] The scenes currently unfolding outside Jacob Zuma's homestead at Nkandla, which have broken almost every lockdown level 4 regulation gazetted, are fast morphing into a dangerous and volatile Covid-19 super spreader event threatening the lives of...

[Daily Maverick] As armed Zulu regiments marched alongside Jacob Zuma at his homestead in Nkandla on Saturday afternoon, legal minds elsewhere were somewhat flummoxed following the former president's challenge to a ruling from the highest court in th...

[allAfrica] As of July 2 confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,547,605 while over 34,845,605 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[COSATU] The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins millions of people in South Africa and around the world to mourn the untimely death of boxing legend Lehlohonolo Ledwaba. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, colleagues, and frien...

[Daily Maverick] After a stressful build-up, the 2021 British & Irish Lions tour is on the go at last. The most compelling storyline might be whether it makes it to the end, on 7 August.

[Daily Maverick] There is evidently much more work that needs to be done by the Proteas as they build-up to the T20 World Cup. However, their tight series win over the West Indies has some positive takeaways.