The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, has applied to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa to approve a 36.1% electricity price hike from April 2025, a 11.8% price increase in 2026 and an 9.1% increase in 2027. Steven Mathetsa teaches and researches sustainable energy systems at the University of…

James and Lotte Wubben-Moy both return for England after missing the summer qualifiers, while Lucy Parker is recalled for the first time in a year

James called up by Sarina Wiegman for October friendlies against Germany and South Africa

A recent poll by the Social Research Foundation, a think thank, found that 60% of South Africans thought the government of national unity was working well. It also reported that support for the unity government’s anchor political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA), had risen…

The Lionesses face Germany and South Africa this month ahead of Euro 2025 next summer

As a child, Milisuthando Bongela was unaware of white-supremacist South Africa, only to later wake up to the realities of a racialised political system

Tito Mboweni, former South African Reserve Bank Governor, Minister of Finance, and Minister of Labour was arguably one of the country’s most consequential economic policymakers and drove several significant economic reforms.

It is sad to write about Tito Mboweni in the past tense.

The outgoing US leader has not prioritised Africa enough, some say, as Russia and China make inroads into the continent.

Zimbabwe has confirmed its first two cases of mpox, days after Zambia reported its first case. The cases, whose variants have not been identified, were detected in people who were from or had travelled to Tanzania and South Africa.

The discovery of a 34,000-year-old mound in South Africa sheds light on the insects’ role in combating climate change