Author: staff

While the search for missing Joshlin Smith was under way in February last year, the child’s mother, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, told her sister that the little girl was in the Middlepos informal settlement and that someone wanted to sell the child but that it was “too heated” in the community, the Western Cape High Court has heard.

There were empty seats in San Francisco last week at an annual international science conference which has delivered some of the world’s most groundbreaking HIV research. It was a throwback to another era – a time when Aids activists were fighting for their lives – and a frightening glimpse of the future under the Trump administration.

Africa’s biggest mobile operator MTN said on Monday it was upping its dividend and guiding another boost to its payout for 2025, confident it remains well positioned despite hefty hits from currency depreciation and the conflict in Sudan.

Beside a cluster of gum trees at Woodlands High in Mitchells Plain, colourful trucks parked on the school grounds bring contraceptives, services for sexually transmitted infections, and three types of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to pupils 15 years and older – these are an HIV prevention pill, a vaginal ring, and a prevention injection.

To pass the Budget, the fiscal framework and a host of bills must be considered by committees and then passed by the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces where the ANC no longer has majorities. Here is how things could play out.

France’s crowning as this season’s Six Nations champions underlined their status as genuine contenders to South Africa’s global supremacy thanks to an efficient gameplan, generational individual talents and some record-setting performances.

Kabelo Kekana has been blind since the age of 10. But last year, he was the top special education needs pupil in the country. Now he is leaving his home in Limpopo for Wits University to experience life in places not usually designed for people with his disability, and to learn how to advocate for others like him.

After telling his local supermarkets for months that their lean beef mince was not at all lean, to no avail, a Cape Town man asked government officials to buy samples and analyse their fat content. The results were alarming, says Wendy Knowler.

Many of the controversial policy decisions US President Donald Trump’s administration has made have simply been inherited from the administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden, South Africa’s expelled Ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, said on Friday.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana softened the VAT hike but scrapped tax bracket relief, meaning all taxpayers face higher bills due to bracket creep. With rising sin taxes, unchanged medical credits, and trimmed social grants, many South Africans will feel the pinch.