[allAfrica] Cape Town -- A six-year study conducted by the Baby GERMS-SA team, led by experts from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, has found that newborn mortality rates r...

[National Institute for Communicable Diseases] Newborn mortality rates remain high, despite global efforts to reduce deaths in children aged younger than 5 years. According to UNICEF, in 2019, newborn babies accounted for almost half of all deaths in...

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[GroundUp] About 60 Mfuleni families moved into the hall after floods in June

[GroundUp] #UniteBehind seek to join Siyangena-PRASA case in the Supreme Court of Appeal after rail agency moves to reach settlement in corrupt contract

[The Conversation Africa] Linguistic landscape is the study of languages used in signs. As most of the field's pioneering studies were based on cities, research comes to be associated with cityscapes.

[The Conversation Africa] The world's food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability.

[CAF] South Africa qualified for the semi-finals of the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday after defeating Tunisia 1-0 in Rabat.

[VOA] Cape Town -- South African police say a championship belt given by American professional boxer Sugar Ray Leonard to the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, has been stolen. Police say the belt was taken July 1 in a...

[CAF] South African Jermaine Seoposenwe has been named as the Woman of the Match after her sole goal secured a FIFA Women's World Cup slot for Banyana Banyana.

[GroundUp] "It's like solving a massive puzzle" says head archivist

[GroundUp] Equal Education members demand Eastern Cape education MEC intervene

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[CAF] Dreams do come true. South Africa is going back to the FIFA Women's World Cup and at the heart of that feat is head coach Desiree Ellis.

[CAF] Tunisia are writing history by reaching the quarterfinals of the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations as the Carthage Eagles prepare to take on South Africa in the last quarterfinal tonight at 21h00 local time.

[The Conversation Africa] Many of us are familiar with the typical results of burning fuels such as coal, natural gas and oil. The reaction produces heat which we harness to warm our homes, heat water and cook food, power vehicles and generate electr...

[Daily Maverick] Kusile was meant to be finished in 2014 with a budget of R81bn, but so far only four of the six planned units have achieved commercial operation, with R152bn already spent.

[VOA] Cape Town, South Africa -- Authorities in South Africa have arrested the owner of a bar and two employees in connection with the deaths of 21 teenagers, who lost their lives at a tavern last month under mysterious circumstances. Vicky Stark rep...

[GroundUp] Dunoon housing project to give homes to 1,500 families

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's senior women's football side is now just one victory away from sealing a second consecutive appearance at the Fifa Women's World Cup.

[Daily Maverick] While some of the families of the youngsters who died in the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy on 26 June welcomed the arrest of the tavern manager and two employees for contravening the Liquor Act, they say they are still in agony over the fa...

[Daily Maverick] Amy Tuchten is a legal researcher at the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, an organ of the African Union based in Maseru, Lesotho. She holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town and a master's de...

[Daily Maverick] A slew of data this week backs the case that South Africa's economy contracted in the second quarter (Q2) and is probably sliding into recession. Spoiler alert: Stage 6 load shedding ain't helping.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's power utility, Eskom, has not been able to provide a steady electricity supply for several years now. At the start of the 2022 winter the utility warned the public to expect up to 100 days with rolling power o...

[GroundUp] "This water crisis has put our lives on hold"

[Daily Maverick] Glenda Daniels, an associate professor of media studies at Wits University, sits on the executive of Sacomm, the Press Council and Sanef. These views are her own.

[spotlight] Variants of the original version of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) first made headlines in December 2020. It was a sign that SARS-CoV-2 is more volatile than initially expected.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's judicial probe into state capture and corruption, the Zondo Commission, has concluded that the State Security Agency was integral to the capture of the state by corrupt elements. These included former presiden...

[ISS] Social media owners and law enforcement need to curb the abuse of cyberspace to incite violence.