Even as Johannesburg Water throttles water supply, two cadre companies with no track record keep cashing in on a three-year contract to supply water when the taps run dry.

From Thembelihle to Soweto, residents say Johannesburg’s prolonged water outages are crippling schools, threatening public health and exposing communities to crime. Civil society groups are demanding ...

Lucky Montana’s tax saga made headlines but the real story runs much deeper. Jacob Zuma’s MK party has become a haven for the same figures who once oversaw South Africa’s most corrupt state-owned ...

The first sentence of Anna Karenina is now a literary cliché, yet contains a nub of truth. “All happy families,” writes Leo Tolstoy, “resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own ...

The world is being split in two by transnational organisations that are promoting right-wing politics under the insidious guise of ‘family values’, and they are reversing human rights gains all over ...

South Africa’s summer table is looking delicious — from Hillary Biller and Jan Kohler’s festive workshop to new culinary openings like Pantry in Hazelwood.

Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero has stood by his eviction of informal traders in the inner city, which the traders say is illegal and degrading. Their case against the city will be heard in court on ...

Inside the talks that shaped the GNU; Halloween horrors; and the quiet power of small gestures — all in the Weekend Wrap.

The issue of trade in rhino horn has long been a bone of conservation contention, and this landmark decision is sure to stir controversy.

Antarctic Treaty states should ‘question whether they could safely invite representatives of Russia to future meetings should it fail to immediately release the arrested biologist’ — former US ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...

The Israeli military attacked the Gaza Strip for a third day on Thursday night, killing two people, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency said, in another test of a fragile ceasefire ...