A scheduled 8-hour power outage is set to affect 19 areas in Johannesburg.

The lobola negotiations of an American who found love in South Africa have gone viral, showcasing the groom honoring tradition by paying his respects to the bride-to-be’s family.

The uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) Party has officially suspended three members from the KZN legislature.

The National Students Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has urged students to apply for funding.

Residents of the Phumlamqashi informal settlement in Lenasia South are protesting water cuts caused by illegal connections.

Watch two best friends discuss the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) ahead of this week’s SA general election.

As South Africa gears up for the elections, citizens are facing not only political choices but also significant mental health challenges.

SA expat Jason Levin describes his first 100 days living in the USA. From charging for air to answering ‘Are you British?’ questions.

Gone are the days when a woman’s role in aviation was confined to being a flight as more and more women are taking the captain’s seat within the aviation industry.

The 96th Academy Awards may have come and gone. However, young local film producer Santi Naidoo is still basking in the after-glow with her Oscar-considered short film, Jerome, lighting up the Hollywood cinema circuit!

The South African Crime Thriller Series is a twisty, riveting, utterly compelling murder mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end.

You and your pooch are invited to the Paws on the Promenade – a dog walk fundraiser in support of the Mdzananda Animal Clinic, Khayelitsha.

A tiger escaped from a residence and roamed the countryside outside Johannesburg, South Africa, for four days last month. It attacked a man and killed several animals, and was eventually shot by the authorities. Tigers aren’t native to South Africa and are considered an alien species. Its escape highlights the country’s controversial commercial captive breeding […]

Queer people and sex workers are being treated with hostility at clinics and even denied services, according to a Ritshidze report launched on Monday. A survey by Ritshidze has found that sex workers, drug users and queer people are being treated badly at public health facilities. Some are even being denied services, the survey of […]

If you were to open your medicine cabinet right now, there’s a fair chance that you’d find at least one bottle of vitamins alongside the painkillers, plasters and cough syrup. After all, people are definitely buying vitamins: in 2020, the global market for complementary and alternative medicines, which includes multivitamin supplements, had an estimated value […]

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KwaZulu-Natal Premier, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, says musicians Zakes Bantwini and Nomcebo Zikode are a beacon of hope and an inspiration to many young people in townships and rural areas. The Premier made the remarks after musician, producer and DJ, Zakes Bantwini, singer-songwriter Nomcebo Zikode and producer Wouter Kellerman bagged the award for ‘Best Global Music Performance’ during […]

Cape Town is bracing for a busy year of events, including a number of major international showpieces like Africa’s first-ever E-Prix event in the Green Point Precinct on 25 February 2023. The return of the popular Tweede Nuwe Jaar street parade started the year off with a bang, with more than 80 000 spectators in […]

Gqeberha parents of children who have autism are up in arms with the provincial education department and believe more should be done to create more placements at Quest School for Learners with Autism. Gqeberha parents of children who have autism want the provincial education department to do more to create more placements at Quest School […]

The Free State Department of Education has instituted an investigation into an alleged incident of corporal punishment administered last week by the principal of Ntsu Secondary School in Bethlehem in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District. In a statement, department spokesperson, Howard Ndaba, said corporal punishment against any learner is condemned in the harshest possible terms. Corporal punishment […]

Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, has called for vigilance as the country has recorded two laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera imported from Malawi. UPDATE 24 FEB ’23: South Africa records its first cholera death, linked to the recent cases. According to the department, the cases were confirmed in two sisters, who had travelled together from Johannesburg […]

The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has congratulated eminent South African musicians Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini and Nomcebo Zikode for winning the Best Global Music Performance at the Grammy Awards. The artists won for their collaboration of ‘Bayethe’ on Sunday at the 65th annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, California. The awards were […]

Travel writing in Africa is often associated with colonial ventures of the past or white adventure pursuits of today. But Africans themselves have long produced captivating travel texts in oral and written forms. We need to look beyond narrowly western or white accounts as travel writing is produced across the world by an extensive range […]

The Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) has welcomed about 6,000 crime prevention wardens in an effort to augment crime-fighting efforts made by SAPS and Metropolitan Police Departments. The 6000 recruits – who are all young – will undergo at least three months of training before being deployed to 361 wards in the province including townships, informal […]

Bulelani Qolani, who made headlines when he was dragged naked from his home in Khayelitsha by Anti-Land Invasion officers during lockdown in 2020, says he is launching legal action against the City of Cape Town. Bulelani Qolani made headlines for being dragged naked from his shack in Khayelitsha by the City of Cape Town officers who were […]