Beneath the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital overpass in Soweto, a cluster of homeless people quietly nurse the weight of regret. Once swept up in a haze of criminal actions, they now cling to the ...

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked fellow Republicans critical of his administration's handling of the case of dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A series of recent events, including President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reaction to claims against the now on-leave Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, may start to raise questions about his political authority.

Across South Africa, a growing movement of student-led environmental action is reshaping schools and communities. Supported by the TUI Care Foundation and Masifunde, young ‘Eco Champions’ are tackling ...

The money is not nearly enough to put two to four million people per year in South Africa on the lenacapavir jab, and even if it were, the country’s health system won’t be able to roll out the ...

At a market cap of just above two trillion dollars, Bitcoin is probably never going to upset the global asset value pecking order, but this latest surge makes it more valuable than Amazon – with Apple ...

A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny black box.

The problem persists because religious organisations appear to be reluctant to take appropriate measures to prevent and respond to clergy sexual abuse. This is particularly serious in South Africa.

Like calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.

With almost 100,000 reported outages in nine months, we found tales of generators and grief, diesel or darkness as Joburg residents spoke to us about paying the price of a broken grid. From R40,000 ...

Maverick collected voices from Johannesburg’s hardest-hit communities where chronic power failures aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re an existential threat to businesses, livelihoods, and public ...