1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1818+ words) Donald Trump matters a lot to Mzansi and the rest of the world right now. Trump is changing the way America works - and how the world's most powerful country deals with the rest of the world. We'll track what he…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (280+ words) Following damning findings from an Auditor-General (AG) report that found Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela irregularly appointed 15 Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) boards, President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is “regularly in touch with” the minister. The AG…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (537+ words) South Australian One Nation leader Cory Bernardi says Premier Peter Malinauskas is pushing an “anti-Australian agenda” in the SA leader’s high-profile speech in Sydney earlier this week. Bernardi – an outspoken figure in SA politics who recently had his Facebook account…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (318+ words) South Africa’s Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has come under fresh criticism after a video showed her swearing at a disabled resident, deepening concerns over the conduct of senior African National Congress leaders. She has not publicly addressed the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (234+ words) Kenya is discussing a bill to amend the Tobacco Control Act of 2007. Columnist Simon Mwangi, deputy director for corporate communications at the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Nacada), writes that the initiative has triggered sharp…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1625+ words) A refugee who had been receiving tuberculosis (TB) treatment died after spending months on the pavement outside Durban’s Home Affairs refugee reception office, as tensions rise ahead of a planned March and March gathering on Thursday. Bienvenue Munga, 42, died on…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (263+ words) PARLIAMENT — South African authorities are developing statutory measures to regulate non-citizen property holdings while depending on state records compiled almost ten years ago. The response came almost a month after the South African Reserve Bank updated its balance of payments…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (51+ words) Modern Ghana Ghana announces visa-free travel to Maldives, Zambia and Antigua and Barbuda Mahama swears in three new Supreme Court justices, urges judicial independence Tema Port congestion alone cannot justify GHS12 cement price increment – GPHA UTAG-KNUST threatens legal action over Pro-VC…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (559+ words) What was intended to be a peaceful March and March demonstration on Che Guevara Road in Durban on Thursday descended into chaos after refugees were pelted with rocks and other objects. The protest, organised by the anti-illegal immigration group March…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1623+ words) Deon Snyman is a political theologian who has worked in community development for the past 35 years and currently serves as Managing Director of the Goedgedacht Trust. Thirty years ago, at the end of 1996, I came back to Nongoma after spending…...