The war in Ukraine might seem far from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Yet one of its consequences reaches into a subject that matters deeply across Africa: food security. Ukraine is often described as one of the world’s breadbaskets and for good reason. Its wheat, maize, sunflower oil and other agricultural products have helped…
The six-monthly anti-HIV jab, which prevents HIV through sex, is now stocked for free at 360 government clinics in six of South Africa’s provinces. The provinces are Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga, North West and the Western Cape, according to the health department’s list of clinics. The Northern Cape, Limpopo and the Free State…
There’s a scene in Quentin Tarantino’s ’90’s blaxploitation film Jackie Brown that perfectly sums up how I felt after watching In The Grey. After a crime scheme gone wrong, Samuel L Jackson’s Ordell Robbie shoots Robert de Niro’s Louis Gara in the stomach and then looks at him with a mixture of disbelief and disappointment….
An exclusive suburb in Cape Town has seen average property prices surge from about R11 million to R30 million in six years.
The head of organised crime at the South African Police Service (SAPS), Major General Richard Shibiri, has been dismissed after a scathing appearance at the Madlanga commission of inquiry and subsequently, an internal disciplinary hearing. In a statement, the police said Shibiri was found guilty of misconduct that brought the organisation into disrepute, including associating…
South Africa is expected to report modest economic growth next week, but economists warn that the hard hit is still coming.
Recent data published by Ember Energy shows that Eskom’s contribution to South Africa’s electricity supply continues to shrink at a rapid pace.
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Vumacam’s collaboration with the City of Johannesburg and Gauteng Provincial Grovernment has resulted in a string of arrests.
I have spent enough years on degraded grazing land and beside shrinking wetlands to recognise a pattern in how we talk about climate change in South Africa. The conversation tends to arrive late and be pitched high. We debate 2050 emission targets and global temperature thresholds while a farmer in the eastern Free State watches…