Renowned Nigerian author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie delivered this year's second vice-chancellor's open lecture at the University of Cape Town (UCT) amid a wave of ... Read more »

1,649 members of the Shona community, who had been stateless, have been presented with citizenship certificates. In 2016, 1,496 members of the Makonde community in Kwale ... Read more »

The July 2021 attacks on South Africa's economic infrastructure exposed severe weakness in the police at a time of national crisis. Police were often missing in action as thousands ... Read more »

Amnesty International has called on the South African government to investigate the the deaths of hundreds of people killed during a week-long series of riots and looting in the ... Read more »

On 22 July, the first reports emerged that Transnet, a South African state-owned enterprise, was experiencing problems with its information technology (IT) networks. This ... Read more »

The South African government has said it is "appalled" at the decision of the African Union Commission (AUC) to grant Israel observer status in the African Union (AU). "The AU ... Read more »

South Africa is on the brink of allowing pharmacists holding the required permits to prescribe and initiate HIV medicines without people first having to get scripts from doctors or ... Read more »

According to the latest National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM) figures, up to 750,000 learners in South Africa have dropped out of school ... Read more »

In a finding that may help further reduce side effects, new research has found that the dosage of the drug linezolid can be lowered without compromising how well it works. Together ... Read more »

President Cyril Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation that the overall decline in new Covid-19 infections meant it was possible to gradually ease some of the restrictions on ... Read more »