Many of these children die without any palliative support and experience unnecessary discomfort and pain, unless an overburdened NGO steps in.
The bitterly polarised controversy over the status of transgender people has spawned attacks on freedom of thought and speech at British and South African universities
Lawyers have questioned why there was no objection period for the R181-million contract to guard four facilities.
The residents live less than 500 metres from the landfill and have, for several years, complained to the city’s various entities.
Angelo Agrizzi told the M&G he was offered R50-million in 2018 to keep quiet about state capture.
Themba Maseko, the former chief government spokesman said it would be a very long wait for legislative reform, as urged by the Zondo report, to see the light of day if state capture culprits still in the state did not face the music
Concerns abound about the parliament fire, with insiders saying the timing was suspicious and the truth may never come out, while intelligence and security clusters are worried.
Lindiwe Sisulu’s broadside isn’t the only attack on SA’s supreme law.
Zandile Mafe appeared at the Cape Town magistrate court on Thursday morning before being taken in for observation.
Outa says it is back to the drawing board for the government.
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe says the minister of tourism and a member of the party’s national executive committee was expressing her personal views when she attacked the integrity of the judiciary and the Constitution.
We live in the Earth, not on the Earth, but continuing with an extractive mindset will be the end of us all
The department of forestry, fisheries and the environment has finalised its criminal investigation into the petrochemical company’s alleged industrial pollution of the Vaal River.
Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
The whistleblower fears that Zondo’s recommendation that the firm’s contracts with public entities be scrutinised will be stonewalled – and implicates Telkom.
Learners from grade R to 12 return on Wednesday to school for a new academic year.
The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an unfathomable past into a flawed present, writes Elisha Kunene.
Family hopes for answers now that a probe has been completed into a friendly fire incident that killed a South African soldier in the DRC
Bats are potential carriers of zoonotic viruses and the destruction of their environment spells danger for humans.
Why do religious leaders feel no compunction to harm their followers, when they could ‘pray for the destruction of a satanic vaccine’ instead?
The report recommends that the government establishes a public procurement anti-corruption agency to ‘formulate measures for the making of reports by whistleblowers and for their protection and incentivisation’
The party’s founders focused it’s mission on the problem of the day – land – which remains a central issue. Yet, since 1994, the ANC has been hesitant and timid in resolving the land question.
As the party celebrates its 110th anniversary, President Cyril Ramaphosa says members must restore the ANC’s integrity to win the confidence and respect of South Africans.
But the police minister expresses confidence in country’s security and says people must ‘just relax’ even though President Cyril Ramaphosa had to be moved to safety twice during ANC’s 110th anniversary celebrations
ANC NEC member and Ramaphosa ally Ronald Lamola says that the NEC needs to have a generational mix in its next top six and hinted at possible deputy presidency.
There is a conspicuous lack of teaching resources to address the historical construction of race in the South African context.
The question that must also arise is why we can’t identify and celebrate the women who supported the former presidents of the organisation
We must overhaul a justice system that does not work for Africa and Africans. Immediate land reform is crucial now
Only the educated elite could have established the African National Congress, but the party needs to correct its course
Even a country with citizens as fractious and fractured as South Africa is showing signs of unity to save the sea off the Wild Coast.
Dolly Rathebe’s musical legacy is inseparable from the cultural life of Sophiatown.
Incompetence, corruption and cronyism are part of many liberation organisations for complex reasons, but such organisational culture tends to persist into government.