In 2012, banker Paul Harris wrote to a friend in Australia who had sent him a concerned note after reading that South Africa had five more years before going over a cliff. The letter has been ...

A parliamentary report has revealed that some MPs were routinely absent from committee meetings, with some members achieving only a 30% attendance rate in the first six months of the new parliamentary ...

That he was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and spent 29 years in jail for assassinating SACP leader Chris Hani was a ‘travesty of justice’, his killer Janusz Waluś has ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military ...

In sub-Saharan Africa more than six million pregnant and parenting girls are out of school – and few go back after giving birth. Here’s how the barriers to girls’ schooling can be broken down to help ...

By October last year, 38 government departments and 28 SOEs had accumulated a jaw-dropping figure of R123.56-billion lost to ‘irregular expenditure’. The same fellows who couldn’t organise a budget in ...

Absolutely nothing that Trump did in his first week was bland, businesslike or quietly efficient. It was just one startling, noisy thing after another, which is clearly the way he likes it.

As Israel and Hamas inched precariously towards the first stage of their ceasefire deal, memories of the years I spent travelling to, working in and reporting from Gaza were resurfacing.

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

The shifts associated with being in your 40s and 50s – gray hairs, career doldrums, a longing for something more – seem as inevitable as aging itself. It wasn’t always this way.

Some experts argue that President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the OECD minimum 15% global tax deal could hurt Africa.

While a British pop star has been making a BBC Lifestyle series in the Cape winelands, a top city chef is heading for a gourmet festival in Lancashire, and your food editor’s favourite seafood chain ...