One of my favourite statues is the one of Nelson Mandela at the Sandton City shopping centre in Johannesburg. Larger than ...

The World Bank is advising South Africa’s National Treasury on a climate risk strategy after floods in recent years caused ...

The City of Johannesburg has instructed its legal team to immediately lodge an urgent court application to stay the execution ...

The World Bank has suspended new disbursements from a $150-million fund to expand a national park in southern Tanzania, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, after the lender received allegations of ...

South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a humanitarian crisis, the UN mission there ...

British police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men over the deaths of five migrants including a child who died attempting to cross the Channel from France the day before. The deaths occurred ...

Republic of the Congo has declared an epidemic of mpox after 19 cases were confirmed across five departments, including the capital Brazzaville. No deaths have yet been recorded, Health Minister ...

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and suggested there was a need ...

The Multi-Party Charter of South Africa announced on Wednesday its plans to increase the child grant to the food poverty line and extend the grant to cover pregnant mothers to support child nutrition ...

Amnesty International South Africa executive director Shenilla Mohamed said that 30 years after the end of apartheid, the ...

With their leading roles regionally and in the G20 and COP30, a Brazil-South Africa partnership could prompt useful ...

Jonathan Ancer is an award-winning journalist who has worked as a reporter at The Star, a features writer for magazines, and ...