11+ hour, 48+ min ago   (346+ words) The discovery of four women’s bodies in Kempton Park should once again force South Africa to confront an uncomfortable reality: for millions of women, simply moving freely in public remains a dangerous undertaking. Adding to the concern is the disappearance…...

11+ hour, 48+ min ago   (426+ words) The City of Johannesburg has been paying more than R4m a month to lease a Newtown office building that its own health and safety inspectors later described as a health hazard with “unacceptable” occupational compliance. Documents seen by the Sowetan show…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (235+ words) Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Thursday appointed his influential daughter as head of a planned special economic zone in the capital Tashkent that is part of a wider drive to attract foreign investment into the Central Asian state. Saida Mirziyoyeva,…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (610+ words) Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday, boosting relations with the small EU nation even as ties sour with some long-time allies over its policy on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (684+ words) Earth cooked during its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus. August’s…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (261+ words) Two of the three early childhood development (ECD) centres built as part of former Ekurhuleni executive mayor Mzwandile Masina’s “legacy projects” in 2019 have been abandoned after the city spent R57.4m to construct them. Poor management and late salary payments combined with…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (757+ words) Lesotho designer Teboho Hlehlehe wants Basotho people to see their culture as something to inherit and preserve, but also as a legacy to keep on building. The 27-year-old graphic designer from Maseru is among eight young creatives from Lesotho chosen…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago   (776+ words) Social Justice News Reporter The way the world is drawn on maps could change after the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution encouraging countries to move away from the centuries-old Mercator projection towards the Equal Earth projection. The move has…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (269+ words) Ntuli said details of the leak emerged during a multidisciplinary law enforcement operation at the Isithebe Industrial Zone in KwaSithebe, Mandeni, as part of the provincial government’s Engangeni Ngesango Iyafohla campaign. The operation, which comprises police as well as officials…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (746+ words) An eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Anak Krakatau caused eight airports to suspend flight operations on Sunday, affecting hundreds of flights at Jakarta’s main airport, after some school activities and fishing were halted. The suspension, extended several times, has affected 964 flights…...