From a longlist of 16, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2025 Women’s prize for fiction. Our experts review the finalists (the announcement of the winner will be today, on 12 June 2025). The ...

The African continent has the youngest population on the globe. In numerical terms, the continent is home to approximately 400 million people under the age of 35, with 70% of sub-Saharan Africa being ...

An Air India plane headed to London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, the airline and police said, without specifying ...

More than a quarter of South African children under the age of five are chronically malnourished. That’s bad for them, their families and the economy – but it isn’t expensive or difficult to fix.

The number of people displaced by war and persecution around the world climbed above 122 million this year due to a failure to resolve multi-year conflicts such as those in Sudan and Ukraine, the U.N.

New developments since the Oval Office spectacle cast new light on the potential implications for South Africa’s critical minerals, space ambitions, and ongoing trade negotiations.

Democracies around the globe must demand free and fair elections in the US and deliver consequences if Trump overturns the constitution to hold on to power.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board of governors declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations on Thursday and Tehran announced counter-measures, as an Iranian official said a "friendly ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump was greeted with a high-volume mix of boos and cheers on Wednesday as he took his seat for his first production at the Kennedy Center, the performing arts facility he has ...

Accusations of ‘state-enabled xenophobia’ flew in the Gauteng Division of the High Court on Wednesday as SAPS members and Home Affairs officials denied colluding with the anti-migrant group Operation ...

Spending on social grants is a powerful way to support economic growth, because almost 100% of every rand spent flows back into local economies in the form of consumer spending, promoting economic ...