Since 2020, the Eastern Cape Department of Education has retained about R5 billion from the budgets of its poorest schools, ostensibly for “centralised procurement”. Some of that money could have funded proven teacher support, classroom libraries, and access to abundant free digital resources – multiple times over. Rod Amner and Laney van Wyk report
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma praised the PAP Civil Society Forum for strengthening public participation in Africa’s legislative processes at the annual dialogue.
Tiny biocontrol insects, released by the Centre for Biological Control, are preventing flowering and suppressing growth — a long-term solution to South Africa’s most problematic aquatic invasive plant
The increase was largely driven by exports, which surged 40.5% to $18.6 billion, reflecting rising global demand
Palestine today is not merely a geographic site of struggle; it is a mirror reflecting humanity’s oldest contest — between power and truth, silence and expression, spectacle and conscience, says the writer
Kumi Naidoo, a leading voice for climate justice advocating for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty and fair finance, has been calling for governments to act on the ‘moral failure’ of continued fossil fuel expansion
The opposition officials and hundreds of youths from across the country were arrested in the wake of last month’s general elections
Online gambling generated over R59 billion in annual revenue, prompting calls for tighter rules to protect vulnerable groups
The South African Weather Service says some parts of the country exceeded long-term monthly averages by as much as 500% to 1000%
Indigenous groups and NGOs caution that the facility risks becoming another top-down market mechanism that benefits investors more than the forests themselves