Exxaro Resources CEO Nombasa Tsengwa is sharpening the South African coal producer's diversification strategy, after failing to acquire new mining and energy assets.
Freedom Under Law says suspended Judge President John Hlophe's insistence that judges who commit gross misconduct can be removed from office only after two inquiries is not only wrong but would make it almost impossible to hold errant judges to account.
There is no way that Ramaphosa envisioned such marginal paltry reform when he delivered his first SONA in 2018, writes Qaanitah Hunter.
After a three-year hiatus, the Up the Creek music festival has returned to the Western Cape's Breede River.
Rassie Erasmus' new coaching appointments show the Springbok mentor is under no illusions about what lies in wait for the world champions in 2024, writes Herman Mostert.
More than two decades after the outbreak of war in Darfur, fears are growing that the world has abandoned its people as a new conflict ravages Sudan and the perpetrators of atrocities act with impunity.
US President Joe Biden mistakenly referred on Wednesday to a conversation he had with Angela Merkel in 2021 as having taken place with the late German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, his second such mix-up this week.
The family of 21-year-old Diego Jacobs was left shattered after he was stabbed to death in what they believe was a homophobic attack.
The rescue of a child on Friday nearly 60 hours after a landslide hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has been hailed as a "miracle" after searchers had given up hope of finding anyone alive.
Search and rescue teams have braved "a crocodile-infested river" to search for a 10-year-old boy who went missing while swimming with other boys.
Education officials in KwaZulu-Natal say the contracts of at least 27 employees working as deputy directors, assistant directors and administration clerks in the national school nutrition programme will not be renewed.
A knock on the door and those dreaded six words, "there has been a terrible accident", has completely changed the life of a Nelson Mandela Bay mother when she heard her son had been buried alive and later died.
Former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot and killed while visiting his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, at her mother's house in Vosloorus on 26 October 2014.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was very confident in thinking that many people will love what he has to say. Muhammad Hussain looked through his 16-page Sona speech to see what there is to love - or hate.
Recent discourse about the state of the nation in South Africa, as well as its attendant politics, have had an end-of-history ring to it, writes Tinyiko Maluleke. He considers if we have indeed reached that point.
We need more than just jobs, but a vibrant public service and political leadership with a sense of duty and some semblance of respect for those they’re meant to serve, if South Africa is going to get out of its stagnant mode, writes Mcebisi Ndletyana.
Official opposition leader John Steenhuisen reflects on what the DA terms is the real state of the nation and gives a 'glimpse' into how the country can be governed if the party is at the helm.
President Cyril Ramaphosa did his best during SONA 2024 to paint a a rosy picture of progress made during his first term in office.
The head of a committee that was launched in May 2023 to transform the institutional culture of student residences at Stellenbosch University resigned last Monday.
Over the years, the stadium was vandalised, described as a white elephant, and became a crime hotspot and drug den.
ArcelorMittal SA's CEO says the group is "realistic" about government promises that persuaded it to keep its struggling mills open, and for now save thousands of jobs in an election year.
Drawing on seemingly unrelated instances, investment analyst Shamil Ismail connects the dots to build a compelling and well-researched narrative.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's attempts to highlight the gains of 30 years of democracy in his State of the Nation Address on Thursday evening had opposition leaders accusing him of "living in a dream world" and being "Cyril in Wonderland".
Just hours after the EFF was defeated in a court ruling that determined six party leaders couldn't attend the State of the Nation Address, leader Julius Malema ramped up attacks on the judiciary and likened courts to those in Zimbabwe.
A special counsel concluded Thursday that Joe Biden should not face criminal charges for retaining classified documents, but painted a damaging portrait of the US president as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."