The largest ever seabird and marine mammal tracking project says the world urgently needs to declare marine conservation areas
Children aged five to 11 get smaller doses of the Pfizer vaccine than adults. That means the government will have to buy new vials to vaccinate this age group but the health department doesn’t have the money to do so
Much is at stake for South Africa in a conflict that has geopolitical ramifications beyond Ukraine
Aggressive, as opposed to defensive, warfare is a violation of international law. It is this that was used to condemn the apartheid South African Defence Force’s incursions into Angola
The Proteas have consistently had a bevy of strong pace bowlers. The man in charge of ensuring this remains the case for many years to come is confident that all the right plans are in place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his nuclear forces were on alert sparked outcry in the West as the invading troops faced stiff resistance on Monday. The UN General Assembly will hold a rare emergency session Monday to discuss the conflict, which has claimed dozens of lives and raised fears that it will displace millions of people. […]
Between Africa and Europe, is it possible to talk of a win-win partnership, of complementarity and common interests?
Desperate, hungry and thirsty, more and more people are flocking to Baidoa from rural areas of southern Somalia, one of the regions hardest hit by the drought that is engulfing the Horn of Africa.
An introduction to the first and second of the anticipated three Zondo reports
While the Democrats and Republicans use an outdated political playbook, people need protection from the capitalist system itself
This year marks the 35th anniversary of apartheid SA’s watershed encounter in Angola — yet triumphalism at both ends of the spectrum
still clouds the battle’s outcome and meaning
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Chelsea have inflicted far too much pain on Arsenal since Roman bought The Blues in 2003, so I’m up for payback, however it comes.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, but his family has its own secrets: Moscow apartments, Swiss bank accounts — and a money trail that goes far offshore
The government has finally started to recognise the importance of SMMEs in job creation, the business bounce-back scheme being a case in point
Francis Fukuyama’s 1992 classic The End of History and the Last Man suggested an the end point to ideological evolution. Putin’s actions and the world’s inaction put paid to that idea
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country had massed some 150 000 troops on the border in recent months, on Thursday ordered military operations against Ukraine.
Ideas don’t come from machines, but from people
Amid unprecedented global change, the need to do things differently is greater than ever. Design thinking provides a way to engage with the world’s complex challenges in a creative and regenerative way
The weather remains topical across the Southern Hemisphere but has resulted in mixed fortunes
While navigating his own path to stardom, Riky Rick never forgot to pull up newer artists, a mark of his oft-cited generosity
These grifters, con artists, imposters, swindlers and snake-oil salespeople have been with us for as long as humanity existed.
Weeks of intense diplomacy and the imposition of Western sanctions on Russia failed to deter Putin, who had massed between 150 000 and 200 000 troops along the borders of Ukraine.
You can now mix and match boosters and also get them sooner. But what’s the science behind it?
The last time the fuel price was not increased because of a change in either the fuel levy or the Road Accident Fund levy was in 1990
A portion of the government’s revenue overrun, the result of the commodity boom, will be used to pay provincial employees
A long-term basic income relief measure will depend on spending cuts and improved revenue performance, the finance minister said in his guarded words on the subject
The finance minister adds R426-million to employ 90 more staff for the Investigating Directorate, but most of it must be found through ‘reprioritisation’
The finance minister says Eskom’s debt problem may require some ‘fiscal intervention’, but only if certain conditions have been met by the parastatal led by André de Ruyter
Persistently high joblessness, the budget notes, has emerged as a key weakness in economic performance
The finance minister made a smallish exception for Denel in terms of funding but warned that the government wants to push ahead with plans to consolidate SOEs that no longer served a function
The government expects to achieve a primary surplus a year earlier than expected and the economy is expected to reach pre-pandemic levels of GDP this year