3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (405+ words) Kenyan President William Ruto's decision to ban foreign nationals, mostly Africans, from operating small-scale businesses has put the Eastern African Community (EAC) in a difficult position. The region, one of the most integrated on the continent, sees free movement of…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (603+ words) With 11 months to the general election, Kenyan President William Ruto's directive restricting foreign nationals from small-scale retail and informal trade has become the latest flashpoint in a desperate re-election strategy defined by crisis management. The measure, framed publicly as economic…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1454+ words) I learned that the geography of the southern suburbs has been redrawn. Perhaps I am behind and need to update myself on demarcation. But we need factual accuracy and correctness. And some of us are angry about it. FNB Stadium…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (754+ words) The sold-out appearance of apartheid chemical-warfare chief Wouter Basson raises an unanswered question about an attempted assassination that helped propel Molly Blackburn into becoming one of the Eastern Cape's most formidable human-rights activists When I heard that Wouter Basson's theatre…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (793+ words) In three months, South Africa votes for municipal leaders. The billboards are coming. They always do. The faces grow larger. The promises grow wilder. The contact with reality shrinks. Fix the potholes. Create jobs. Bring back water. Now here is…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1162+ words) Standard Bank expects South Africa’s property market to enter a “purple patch” over the next two to four years, even as weak economic growth, high borrowing costs and failing municipal infrastructure continue to cloud the outlook. The bank is positioning…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (897+ words) A new UCT-led study finds that climate services across sub-Saharan Africa often fail to fully meet users’ needs, with researchers calling for more accessible, timely and locally relevant information that combines scientific and Indigenous knowledge Climate information may be available…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (377+ words) Concomitant to the effects of colonialism are what I term post-colonial issues/modern-day challenges. These modern-day challenges include a lack of proper governance, misuse of allocated funds and a misunderstanding of the principles that govern health economics, just to list…...

1+ week, 51+ min ago   (909+ words) More than five years after Anele Tembe’s death, the first day of the inquest into the circumstances surrounding her fatal fall from the 10th floor of the Pepperclub Hotel has brought new details about the moments leading up to the tragedy,…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (785+ words) The Kruger National Park is bringing key flood-damaged infrastructure back into operation, while the environment minister calls for future rebuilding to account for increasingly severe weather Key roads, bridges and tourism facilities in the Kruger National Park are being brought…...