The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

South Africa is a water scarce country. In other words it has an excess of demand over available supply. It also has low water security – the ability to ensure sustainable access to good quality water. The country’s economic hub and biggest population centre, Gauteng province, has suffered sequential water…

Tusked animal depicted in rock art doesn’t match any modern species

After Chidimma Adetshina suffered xenophobic abuse online, young Nigerians in South Africa say they feel unwelcome.

Elon Musk is receiving criticism for a now-deleted post to X (formerly Twitter) which users allege incites violence.

Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a garden or orchard.

There are many ways university researchers can share their work. Some of these methods are well-established in academia: people write journal articles, book chapters and entire books; they present papers at academic conferences. Other approaches are less traditional – writing blogs and opinion pieces, or producing creative works like theatre…

A RARE cast-iron statue of Robert Burns which was discovered in a compost heap in the 1950s in South Africa has returned to Scotland...

The DA party argues Afrikaans education will be harmed, while the ANC says law is necessary to redress inequality

South Africa’s agricultural sector has more than doubled in value and volume terms since 1994. This success has been linked to international trade. Exports now account for roughly half (in value terms) of the annual agricultural production.