It is from the beneficiaries of the ANC’s ‘cadre deployment’ that you will mostly hear the fawning praises sung
South Africa has doubled the interval for the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. We take a look at what other countries have done and the evidence for the move
In the second of a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says the constitution is clear: land seized under colonial states must be returned. But there is only policy confusion and elite possession
More than 11-million people were forced to flee their countries in 2020
‘The generation of 1976 did not fight to end the injustices of their time only for there to be the dawn of a climate apartheid’
The moral dilemma of privilege has led to nihilism as well as unprecedented social justice action
Despite the insurgency, which has killed many people, caused the displacement of millions, confines women to traditional roles and forbids the education of girls, women are fending for their families and starting lucrative businesses. Meet the make-up artists of Maiduguri
Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.
The study investigated how sodium intake affects human cells by giving participants 6g of salt in tablet form each day for 14 days, while they continued with their normal diets.
David Diop won the prestigious annual International Booker prize for translated fiction for his second novel, ‘At Night All Blood is Black’
The businessman, who died suddenly this week, leaves a long legacy of highly successful ventures
Labelling them in the same way as youth in the US leads to false perceptions and misunderstanding
Good election outcomes for the party will mean Julius Malema’s dangerous racism will again receive airtime
It is important not to look away from visceral pictorial evidence of the suffering of disempowered people
The liberation legend died on Thursday at a military hospital in Lusaka, aged 97
Twenty-six years after the Beijing Declaration, which set the target for reaching gender balance in political decision-making, women are still underrepresented across all levels of power
Thursday was the first time acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appeared before the committee, but she did not have many answers for MPs
The former Transnet and Eskom chief financial officer agreed that it was highly irregular that the consultancy firm enjoyed this unfair advantage
The Mail & Guardian launched ‘Ask Yourself’, a podcast by M&G Listen on Youth Day.
The health department has issued new guidance on how South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination sites should handle ‘walk-ins’.
Governments’ interruption of social media is censorship is a way to control the flow of information online and amounts to censorship
When one of the country’s biggest public cancer treatment centres fell victim to fire and left more than a thousand patients waiting for treatment, an uncomfortable truth rose from the ashes.
When we rebel and part ways with the barbarism of the apartheid and the democratic state, we will keep the memory of this historic event alive for current and future generations
The Maluti-a-Phofung local municipality owes the power utility more than R5-billion
The president will give an update on developments in South Africa’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Six ways to invest in health systems and be better prepared for the next pandemic as Africa responds to Covid-19
ANC staffers picketed outside Luthuli House on Tuesday after months of problems with salary payments
A man who took on cellphone data regulators over out-of-bundle rates is featured in this edition of a series on human rights defenders in the SADC region
The youth of South Africa need to heed these role models to rise up to the challenges that face them
Johnson & Johnson plans to replace our two-million unusable vaccines by July. The vaccines are unsuitable for use and must be destroyed, while the country’s vaccination programme is behind schedule
A new report by the International Crisis Group examines the ongoing insurgency in northern Mozambique and looks at what needs to be done to stop it. The group’s Horn of Africa researcher, Meron Elias, answers key questions about the conflict