In South Africa’s struggling anti-corruption landscape, leadership and operational independence are among the factors enabling the unit’s success.

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson splashed down safely in the Pacific early on Tuesday after her fifth trip to the International Space Station, joined by crewmates from India, Poland ...

Over the long term, crypto could offer a potential upside that can offset some of the slow bleed from inflation and under­performing cash.

After 25 years at South Africa’s biggest retail bank, Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie is stepping down. But don’t expect a quiet goodbye or a conventional retirement.

Last year, in a packed arena in Berlin, 26-year-old Sekelo Shude stood before an international audience of scientists, researchers and innovators pitching an idea born in the informal settlements of ...

China’s economy grew at a slightly faster pace than expected in the second quarter, showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs, though analysts warn of intensifying headwinds that will ramp up ...

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The new 154,000ha Maputo heritage park forms an extension to South Africa’s 240,000ha iSimangaliso Wetland Park, enlarging the total area of this transboundary world heritage site to almost 400,000ha.

After four presidents (stop trying to make the Kgalema Motlanthe ‘era’ happen) and no fewer than six different plans to grow the economy, South Africa is still in bad shape… Let’s look back at the ...

As she prepares for another bail hearing, Karen Webb, the firearms dealer at the centre of a growing arms scandal, now faces a second murder charge — this time linked to the 2024 killing of a man in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday, and threatened sanctions on buyers of Russian exports unless Russia agrees a peace deal, a major policy shift brought on by ...

Sudanese activists said on Monday that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed almost 300 people in attacks in North Kordofan state that began on Saturday.