Ramokgopa’s rise; how Eskom’s 2025/26 electricity tariffs will affect residential customers; the curious history of cannabis as a health product.

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

If you’re in a calorie deficit – either from dieting or while taking a weight loss drug – these exercises help direct your body to burn more fat instead and hang on to muscle. There’s also a ...

The recent attack on universities by the US is reminiscent of the McCarthy era and its chilling impact on academic freedom. Globally, these developments and the coercive tactics used against Columbia ...

Soon, costly infrastructure may not be the only route to mobile access in South Africa’s (SA’s) most disconnected rural areas. A trial mobile call triumph this week successfully used satellite tech to ...

In a traffic snarl-up of note, at least 20 vehicles, including high-end 4x4s, had their wheels slashed and rims damaged, after a contractor on the M4 Settlers Highway to Gqeberha left deep cutouts in ...

Being part of a political economy notorious for its world-beating inequality and in a country where Africans are 80% of the population, guarantees that most Africans will be poor. This is Part 2 in a ...

Fortunato and Veralda Mazzone are sharing their holiday diary while in Vietnam. It’s been an eye-opening time; a time for reflection.

I found myself at The Plettenberg, the late Liz McGrath’s beloved hotel in the famous Garden Route town, for the first time in more than 10 years. Being there took me back, and I decided to drop her a ...

Reading is profoundly personal, a solitary indulgence I deeply cherish. Most of my reading unfolds quietly in bed, a private literary adventure rarely shared despite being a lifelong, voracious reader ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered that "improper, divisive or anti-American ideology" be removed from the Smithsonian Institution, the vast museum and research complex that is a premier ...