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North Korea has completed construction of a massive tourist zone on its east coast, state media reported on Thursday, a key project driven by leader Kim Jong Un for years to promote tourism.
This is an edited version of the address by Professor Sandra Liebenberg on 20 June 2025 at the Conference Celebrating 30 years of the Establishment of the Constitutional Court.
Months of missed audits, vanishing executives and R340bn in liabilities have finally triggered action — Parliament is launching only its fourth full public accounts inquiry since 1994, into the Road ...
The Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority has taken issue with Daily Maverick’s framing of the SIU probe launched by the President, so we heard the Seta out.
The conflict in Iran may seem far away, but it’s creating volatility that African leaders must act on urgently.
The Government of National Unity has promised to fight corruption and restore trust in state institutions. That pledge will ring hollow if it fails to act boldly on one of the most important ...
With electricity tariffs up by an average of 12.74% between April and July (when municipal tariff increases kick in), Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said energy poverty was biting South ...
Operation Dudula once again disrupted access to Johannesburg’s Hillbrow Clinic, targeting foreign nationals and denying them healthcare in defiance of South Africa’s Constitution. Despite police ...
Ahead of the G20 meeting in South Africa in November, civil society groups have highlighted how school meals as one of the most effective investments in breaking the cycle of poverty.
The assassination of top Hawks official Lieutenant Colonel Frans Mathipa seemed destined, until this week, to remain a cold case – another high-profile murder that is politically simply too hot to ...
At least 10 people have been admitted to Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi with gunshot wounds as thousands of Kenyans took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of ...