WE ARE HIRING: Senior Reporter X 2- POLITICS
/ 24 November 2025

WE ARE HIRING: Senior Reporter X 2- POLITICS

The Mail & Guardian is seeking a savvy, sharp-eyed Political Journalist to drive coverage of South Africa’s most pressing political developments. You will report with rigour, clarity and independence in an era that demands fearless journalism

Two superbugs causing over half of infections that kill newborns in Soweto and outsmarting treatment
/ 10 November 2025

Two superbugs causing over half of infections that kill newborns in Soweto and outsmarting treatment

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand’s vaccines and infectious diseases analytics unit analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg.  With the people in the area living in from informal settlements to structured houses, the cases […]

The falling down place
/ 29 September 2025

The falling down place

While the scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban, the collective and individual trauma, often left unspoken, continues to linger