June 06
South Africa: Explainer - What Next for South Africa, Following Unprecedented 2024 Election Outcome?
Africa Check
EXPLAINER: What next for South Africa, following unprecedented 2024 election outcome? Read more »
South Africa: South African Psychologist Wins Prestigious Templeton Prize - South African News Briefs - June 06, 2024
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South Africa: Better Policing in South Africa Is Well Within Reach [analysis]
ISS
SA has the necessary skills and resources - we need the president and police minister to make reform their mission. Read more »
South Africa: More Service Stations Set Up to Provide Humanitarian Aid
SAnews.gov.za
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government is at the centre of coordinating relief and humanitarian efforts in the aftermath of a devastating storm that ripped through parts of the… Read more »
Africa: South Africa, Don't Fall for Fake Headline Claiming the Cia Will Start a War in Kwazulu-Natal and Frame Zuma's Umkhonto Wesizwe Party
Africa Check
South Africa, don't fall for fake headline claiming the CIA will start a war in KwaZulu-Natal and frame Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe Party Read more »
South Africa: Richards Bay Minerals' $460m Expansion Project Revived As Security Improves [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Richards Bay Minerals, which mines the key industrial mineral titanium from mineral sands, said on Thursday that its long-delayed $460m Zuthi South expansion project was being… Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Non-Profits Face Closure After Province Cuts Funding [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Gauteng non-profit organisations voice urgent concerns after funding cuts and bureaucratic hurdles push essential services to the brink of closure. Read more »
South Africa: Patriotic Alliance Has Big Ambitions After Surprise Showing At the Polls [analysis]
Daily Maverick
The Patriotic Alliance, with its controversial leaders and hardline on illegal immigrants, has become the sixth-biggest party in the National Assembly. As the party stakes its… Read more »
South Africa: Forensic Investigator's Challenge to NPA Could Rock Critical KZN Cases [analysis]
Daily Maverick
President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the bill establishing the Investigating Directorate against Corruption, but a row is brewing that raises new questions about the capacity of… Read more »
South Africa: When the Election Dust Has Settled, What's Left Is Hope for a Better Future [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Democracy may feed envy but it is inspired by hope. And hope is surely stronger than all the other visceral emotions that accompany it. Read more »
South Africa: This Election Has Laid Bare South Africa's Democratic Deficiencies [analysis]
Daily Maverick
What we have learnt again over the past week is that democracy is a marathon, not a sprint. Ours is imperfect, but without it, we lose all hope of a more equal and just society. Read more »
South Africa: The 7th Parliament - Meet Your New (And Returning) MPs [analysis]
Daily Maverick
On Thursday, the Secretary to Parliament received the list of the 400 members of the National Assembly elected through 18 political parties who will become the MPs of the seventh… Read more »
South Africa: Spain Joins South Africa's UN Case On Israel Genocide Accusations
VOA
Spain announced Thursday it would apply to the United Nations' top court to join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip. Read more »
South Africa: South Africa Police Briefly Detain Journalist Sandiso Phaliso, Force Him to Delete Crime Scene Photographs
CPJ
South African police arrested freelance journalist Sandiso Phaliso while he was photographing a crime scene in the country's legislative capital of Cape Town on April 25 and held… Read more »
South Africa: How South Africa's ANC Became Just a Regular Political Party [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The African National Congress (ANC), the party that's led South Africa since the first democratic elections in 1994, has long considered itself a "liberation movement" -… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa's Largest Oil Refinery Sold for a Few Cents - Will BP and Shell Be Held Accountable for Environmental Damage? [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The sale of the South African Petroleum Refinery (Sapref), jointly owned by multinational energy companies BP and Shell, to the state-owned Central Energy Fund for R1 (five US… Read more »
South Africa: Special Investigating Unit Welcomes Dismissal of Application Related to Operation Mabone
SAnews.gov.za
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed a Constitutional Court judgment dismissing an application to appeal a High Court order bid by engineering company Mphaphuli… Read more »
South Africa: Special Investigating Unit Notes High Court Order On Mabuyane Case
SAnews.gov.za
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it is mulling its legal options after the Eastern Cape High Court in Bhisho struck the academic fraud case against Eastern Cape Premier… Read more »
South Africa: New Liquid Bulk Facility to Boost Durban's Economy
SAnews.gov.za
Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has signed a significant Terminal Operator Agreement (TOA) with Mnambithi Terminals, paving the way for the development of a state-of… Read more »
South Africa: Restoration of Basic Services in Uthongathi a Priority, Says Ethekwini Mayor
SAnews.gov.za
eThekwini Municipality Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, has commended the work done and still underway to restore basic services in uThongathi following heavy rains, which caused widespread… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa Records Two More Monkeypox Disease Cases
SAnews.gov.za
The Department of Health is appealing to citizens who have been in close contact with known or suspected patients of monkeypox disease, also known as Mpox, to go to their nearest… Read more »
South Africa: Gauteng Government Funds New Drug Rehab While Defunding Existing Ones
GroundUp
Clinix Foundation was approved for R11-million in funding in just three weeks Read more »
South Africa: Over 1,000 Shack Dwellers Displaced By Tongaat Tornado
GroundUp
People are being housed in three large tents Read more »
South Africa: Children's Book On Palestine Occupation Pulled From Exclusive Books' Shelves
GroundUp
"It is sad when a book like this gets pulled from the biggest retailer in the country" Read more »
South Africa: First Sitting of New Parliament Will Be At the Cape Town International Convention Centre
GroundUp
The new National Assembly will not be complete until February 2026 Read more »