Neonicotinoid, manufactured by Syngenta and Beyer, is banned in the European Union because it kills pollinators and causes other environmental harms
The country’s football barons delivered an extraordinary press conference on Wednesday afternoon
The names of the four justices were released by President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office 36 days after Mogoeng Mogoeng retired from the position.
Last week, South Africa’s biggest cell phone operator announced two major acquisitions amid speculation its rivals may be teaming up
The new St John’s Preparatory School building offers a space that encourages collaboration, complex problem-solving and creativity
Global inflation has surprised on the upside, which may factor into whether the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee decides to raise the interest rate on Thursday
Land entity gets an unqualified audit but parliament remains unimpressed
The court held that sections of the law providing for absolute taxpayer secrecy posed an unconstitutional limitation on the right to information and gave parliament two years to correct this
Eskom appeals to the public to help the utility to avoid more power outages by reducing electricity usage
A newly married man accidently dropped his wedding ring into the ballot box while voting on 1 November
In this second feature on land restitution in Stutterheim, a farmer allocated land by the government loses it to a member of a prominent ANC family
A shortage of burial plots and viable land for new cemeteries has been worsened by the pandemic’s death toll, forcing people to buy rural land on which to bury their loved ones.
Gupta associates received ‘lucrative’ payments for attending one meeting that allegedly influenced Transnet’s awarding of contracts worth billions of rand
Lalela Mswane and the Miss SA organisers have not responded to the announcement by the sports, arts and culture department that the government has withdrawn its support for the pageant
The department of water and sanitation and Rand Water have addressed questions about the inauspicious timing of this week’s shutdown
SIU spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago told the M&G on Friday that the unit was not ‘in a position to comment’, but has subsequently denied being alerted to the alleged payment to Diko
The SIU has sent a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office informing it of alleged corruption by his former spokesperson
In 2001, my mother immigrated to South Africa from the DRC and applied for asylum. I was two years old. Now I must apply for asylum even though I know no other country
Though voter turn out was at an all time low, all residents must now hold their councillors to account. Find out who is representing your ward
The current system has failed to serve the poor and entrenched conservatism while suppressing debate
Learners writing their final exams are motivated by the delicious fare served at an oasis in Delft, Cape Town
Eskom has had 11 chief executives and countless board changes in 10 years, and its condition remains just as critical. Will another reshuffle make a difference?
Small players’ voices were heard in many provinces where they will form part of coalition governments
Monitoring has focused on health risks, but palynologists are now using it to study climatic changes in various landscapes
‘I protected Pityana’s job’
Ramaphosa has an opportunity to do better than his predecessors by not further perpetuating the gender divide in our judiciary
Many young people in Mpumalanga – most of them descendants of Mozambicans who fled the civil war – are in limbo because they don’t have identity documents and birth certificates
Better service delivery and morality are among the things needed to save the ANC from sinking further
It is not clear yet whether the Taliban government will clamp down on the illicit trade
Trees are most vulnerable to human-caused climate change because they can’t migrate fast enough to survive
Beauty pageants are political. Calling these women role models, talking about their natural hair, their ambition, their voice is all political. Representing a country on a global stage is also political
The last days of COP26 have been marred by backtracking and what human and environmental rights watchdogs are calling ‘weak texts’