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The ANC’s provincial executive committee in Limpopo is the first to formally endorse Paul Mashatile for the position of deputy president.

The skinned remains of a Cape Leopard found on a farm in Agter Paarl on Monday can only be described as a true wildlife tragedy.

The Air Services Licensing Council has suspended licences that give Mango the right to fly, because the state-owned airline has been grounded for more than 12 months. Without licences, investors that have lined up to rescue Mango might walk away, hastening its demise.

With great sadness, the IRR announces the death of John Kane-Berman, former CEO and a long-standing pillar of South African liberalism.

When (white) women were given the vote in 1930, Mevrou ACS Steenkamp took the opportunity to run against DF Malan for the Calvinia seat. She didn’t win – but when she died in 1959, Die Burger ran an obituary headlined, ‘Vir haar was Dr Malan baie, baie bang’. Nettie’s granddaughter to...

Naspers and its investment-holding company Prosus will sell down their Tencent stake and buy their own shares, with both companies trading at big discounts to NAV....TCTZF

There is an Indian saying, “The truth is what the neighbour sees, not your mother”.

The agriculture department says it has spent R80-million on the locust-control programme but locust officers have not been paid in six months – while the plague continues to threaten thousands of hectares of crops.

The absence of leaderships creates conditions for a quiet storm to brew, and in the face of rising fuel and food prices, soaring unemployment, politricking, a health systems crisis, rampant xenophobic violence and ever-present racial tensions it is difficult to see any silver linings in these l...

Social change comes when people act individually and in formation to achieve the particular change, says land activist.