With about a third of Nelson Mandela Bay’s traffic lights out of order and repair costs running into millions, acting city manager Ted Pillay last week indicated that he supported a proposal to hold ...

The confirmation that Helen Zille will resign from her position in the DA and focus only on running for Joburg mayor provides the first piece of direction for next year’s local elections. The key to ...

Over the years, South Africa has gained notoriety as one of the WTO’s serial initiative blockers, often alongside India. The joke in WTO circles is that SA is India’s lapdog, incapable of thinking for ...

As South Africa gears up to make a deal with the US, we must ask how much we are willing to sacrifice to secure trade with the White House?

From learning to swim in farm dams to piloting major cruise liners and cargo ships into Gqeberha harbours, Captain Vuyani Ntsimango hopes to inspire future generations of mariners.

Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But ...

Local news is the foundation of a healthy democracy, yet it has been weakened by political hostility, collapsing business models and the rise of social media.

On this World News Day, for too many people, the future is becoming too dark to see. This moment is best described as living in a state of perpetual flux, of global uncertainty and deep, unsettling ...

To understand the world around us we need reliable and rigorous reporting, with artificial intelligence as a tool that amplifies such journalism rather than exploits and distorts it.

There is an alarming global trend of governments shutting down the internet in times of political crisis, with 294 such shutdowns in 54 countries in 2024 – including 15 in Africa.

South Africa’s quest for a Cricket World Cup trophy gets under way with a tough clash against England in India – and that’s just the beginning.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped his re-election bid on Sunday, leaving the race to become the city's next mayor likely between Democrat Zohran Mamdani and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.