The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Mitchell has not played this season and could miss out on Steve Borthwick’s squad, which is named on Wednesday

A SCOTTISH campaign group has raised fears that Nelson Mandela’s grandson has been “prevented” from entering the UK to deliver talks on the…

News of the passing of South African pastor Ray McCauley on 8 October was met by a flood of tributes from across the spectrum of society, from President Cyril Ramaphosa to everyday worshippers at the Rhema Bible Church. McCauley established the influential church in 1985. It has since attracted a…

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.