[spotlight] If South Africa is serious about ending TB, protecting people living with HIV, and safeguarding the next generation from nicotine addiction, Parliament must finally pass the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, a...

[Daily Maverick] Two significant events unfolded in the past week - an apparent U-turn by the NPA of its admission to political interference in post-TRC prosecutions, and former president Thabo Mbeki's pushback after being subpoenaed to appear before...

[Parliament of South Africa] The Select Committee on Social Services has expressed its dissatisfaction in a meeting today with the Free State Department of Health's briefing on progress in implementing commitments arising from the committee's oversig...

[CAF] Freshly crowned African champions Mamelodi Sundowns showed off their TotalEnergies CAF Champions League trophy to thousands of adoring fans in a day-long trophy parade in the nation's capital of Pretoria.

[Scrolla] Soldiers will be deployed on 30 June to stop citizens from demanding IDs from foreigners during planned anti-immigration marches across South Africa. Three days after the defence minister confirmed the deployment publicly, the army put ou...

Rising fuel prices have put growing pressure on household budgets, and as a result many South Africans are changing the way they buy vehicles. Despite this, buyers still want cars that can handle everything from urban traffic to rough rural roads, an...

Conservationists and law enforcement agencies in South Africa are launching a new Gillnet Reporting App to combat the rising problem of illegal gillnetting in rivers and estuaries, driven by the availability of cheap nets. The app aims to identify ho...

Across South Africa, audiences are changing where they get their news and whom they trust. A new class of independent, or “indie”, information providers is exerting significant influence over the public conversation, leveraging blogs, social medi...

As South Africa transitions into an era of coalition governance, moving away from one-party domination, the Dutch model of consensus-based coalition government, with its emphasis on consultation and a neutral public service, offers crucial insights a...

As Men's Health Month (https://www.gov.za/news/events/health-awareness-events/mens-health-month) draws attention to men's wellbeing, an uncomfortable question remains: why do so many men wait until something is wrong before taking their health seriou...

A massive fire ripped through a warehouse in Johannesburg’s Amalgam industrial area in the early hours of Saturday morning, destroying the facility and causing extensive structural damage.

Partly cloudy, cool to cold conditions are forecast for most parts of the country, with drizzle in parts of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, according to the South African Weather Service.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched an urgent application for a stay of his impeachment inquiry.

South African dive instructor and marine teacher Silindile Mbuyazi has been named the 2026 Wayfinder Award recipient and is set to receive the award at the National Geographic Explorers Festival on 18 June in Washington, DC.

Desirée, the 45kg, 4.3-metre-long, southern African python, had to be airlifted to the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital last month.

A massive fire ripped through a warehouse in Johannesburg’s Amalgam industrial area in the early hours of Saturday morning, destroying the facility and causing extensive structural damage.

Partly cloudy, cool to cold conditions are forecast for most parts of the country, with drizzle in parts of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, according to the South African Weather Service.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched an urgent application for a stay of his impeachment inquiry.

South African dive instructor and marine teacher Silindile Mbuyazi has been named the 2026 Wayfinder Award recipient and is set to receive the award at the National Geographic Explorers Festival on 18 June in Washington, DC.

Desirée, the 45kg, 4.3-metre-long, southern African python, had to be airlifted to the Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital last month.

US President Donald Trump’s administration started detailing its plans on Monday for which services it will pause if the federal government shuts down this week, with the health department slated to furlough 41% of its workforce.

Crime intelligence boss Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo is set to continue his testimony before the Madlanga commission of inquiry on Tuesday at the Brigitte Mabandla Justice College in Pretoria.

In a court bid to stop the payout of her late father's R44.7m pension, it was revealed that former deputy president David Mabuza's 24-year-old daughter's monthly living expenses amount to almost R40,000.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says harsher measures are needed to ensure corrupt officials can never return to government service.

US President Donald Trump secured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing on Monday for a US-sponsored peace proposal to end nearly two years of war in Gaza, but questions loomed over whether Hamas would accept the plan.