The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

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

Afrikaans-speaking groups say sections of BELA threaten to ‘erode’ their mother tongue.

Farrell will lead next year’s British and Irish Lions tour of Australia.

When most people are asked to picture an engineer at work, they probably imagine a civil engineer in a hard hat at a construction site, a chemical engineer in a laboratory or an electrical engineer examining a complex circuit board. Very few, I’m willing to bet, visualise someone aboard a…

South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy was split in two after the 2024 general elections: Electricity and Energy and Mineral and Petroleum Resources. Part of the reason was to prevent conflicts of interest. Before the 2024 elections, the transition to renewable energy was at odds with the development…

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