The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world’s largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical research landscape in South Africa. A crucial question now is whether the ...

Yet here we are, as writers from the West bereft of original imagination once again steal from Africa. And I fear, they have done so, so successfully, that when the world finds itself blown away by ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday foreign governments would have to pay "a lot of money" to lift sweeping tariffs that he characterized as "medicine," prompting further carnage in global ...

US President Donald Trump has slashed tens of millions in emergency funds, says a senior former diplomat who wrote state policy for the white continent. As China and Russia announce plans to build new ...

We have always known that from an economic and legal perspective, these tariffs are crazy. We didn’t know they would be stupid, too.

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson wants the Independent Development Trust’s new board to order lifestyle audits into the entity’s senior management. The ongoing investigation ...

Our collective fate is in the hands of feckless politicians. If we want any chance, we need adults to enter the room and get down to the business of fixing our country.

President Cyril Ramaphosa committed R319-billion of the Just Energy Transition funds to developing South Africa’s hydrogen economy, but Namibia has just leapfrogged its bigger neighbour.

Investors were nervously awaiting the open of U.S. trading after Wall Street's selloff last week following the Trump administration's tariffs announcement, anticipating another week of turbulence as ...

It would be rational for South Africa to wait and see how other nations react to Trump’s tariff shock before coming up with any kind of response that can’t later be dialled back.

As from Saturday, 5 April 2025, property buyers are required to provide personal information such as gender, race and nationality so the Deeds Office can track demographics of land ownership.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs and American nationalism have thrown the world upside down, his antics inviting Kris Kristofferson’s lyric: ‘A walking contradiction. Partly truth and partly fiction.’ ...