Miss South Africa 2018 and Miss Universe runner-up Dr Tamaryn Green wants better working conditions for patients and doctors. As a TB and Covid-19 survivor herself, she talks to Denvor de Wee about her competitiveness, her love of nature and her imminent wedding
About 200 000 mostly dwarf succulents confiscated from poachers have to be cared for while police continue their investigations
South African student pilots training in Cuba complain of slave-like conditions
Indian residents deny ‘massacre’ label; black survivors claim violence and orchestration
As Tharisa plc’s share price rockets the residents of the informal settlement say its SA subsidiary is yet to pay them dividends
Those haggling over the keys to Durban city hall can’t smell the shit in the harbour
The board suspended Matthews after a meeting that considered “an alleged sensitive matter of security breach and other contractual obligations associated with” his employment contract
Heineken set to brew up local market
On Thursday the president honoured South Africans and eminent foreign nationals with the highest award the country offers
Deals with the Inkatha Freedom Party deliver small towns, but metros remain beyond the ruling party’s reach
The decision to hike the repo rate by 25 basis points comes in the wake of red-hot inflation in advanced economies and fears policymakers will start to dial back on accommodative measures
Scores of countries at the UN climate talks accepted the COP26 pact reluctantly, condemning a last-minute meeting that led to a slightly different wording
A new World Health Organisation initiative is helping nations make their own vaccines, reducing their dependency on imports.
Amid rampant mismanagement and the effects of climate change, we will have to learn to do more with less
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