The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.
The magistrate found enough evidence that the baby died as a result of injuries inflicted by the police.
Justice does not always serve fairness and the Momentum debacle raises the issue of good faith
‘He had beauty in him and perhaps more than just a little darkness’
Life had to start for Refilwe Leso in the throes of tragedy
Most of us would rather not know what happens to our bodies after death. But that breakdown gives birth to new life in unexpected ways.
Watch out for the potholes in the road ahead and never, ever spell-shame on Twitter.
Retrenchments, the threat of a media tribunal, a new Bill and mergers bode ill for newsrooms.
There is certain utility in having a living will but it remains legally inert, writes Neil Kirby.
A Soweto teenager put himself through school by preparing graves. Now he’s an undertaker, but still gets emotional at the sight of a child’s coffin.
Filmmaker Tarryn Crossman’s second documentary film, Timelines, is a story about death in the digital age.
How to get through life? These novels of ideas and odes to “ordinary people” give some hints.
The actor, who played the logical human-alien Mr Spock in the cult Star Trek TV series and subsequent movies, has died after battling a lung disease.
This morning the country woke up to the news of the death of local soul singer Lungisa "Lulu" Dikana.
We would all choose a quick death if we could, but for some of us that won’t happen. We should talk more about it.
Cousin Hebert dreamt of creating a children’s play park in the back yard of his mansion.
Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams passed away on Monday. We pay tribute to his life with five of his best movies.
Tributes have poured in at the news of legendary comic actor Robin Williams’s death by apparent suicide at his home in California on Monday.
South African artist Zanele Muholi’s two shows come from different directions at the central issue: the (im)possibility of the task of mourning.
After mourning the death of the revolution, the ?collective has found new purpose, and a new myth.
We take a look at the developments since Madiba’s death was announced – from Jacob Zuma’s visit in Houghton to the plans for the funeral.
Hundreds of people went to pay their respects at Nelson Mandela’s Houghton home with candles and songs soon after the news of his death.
Children as young as eight face toxic gas, mercury poisoning and death in Tanzania’s illegal mines.
Instead of outsourcing all talk of death to medics, priests and undertakers some people have embraced the more personalised idea of "death cafes".
Human Rights Watch has conducted an investigation into the dozens of bodies found in a river in the city of Aleppo, Syria, earlier this year.
VIDEO: Nelson Mandela has been in hospital for six days with a lung infection. South Africans voice their hopes and concerns on Madiba’s health.
PODCAST: We speak to M&G reporter Faranaaz Parker about government’s apparent inability to track the rising number of circumcision deaths in SA.
In a far-flung district, a night-time ban on shebeens has wiped out violence in a village.
Hemingway did it. Churchill did it. So let’s do it. Let’s all stand up while we work.
Suicides among teenagers are on the rise, but parents can be taught to spot the warning signs.
Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove gives us a rare glimpse into a Shona ceremony that transformed his deceased father into one of the living-dead.
In her quest for rational thought after her father’s death, Joonji Mdyogolo finds solace in an unlikely source.