[allAfrica] As of November 11, 2021, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached  8,544,078 while over  125,503,345 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africa has been waiting for news of the wellbeing of four brothers who were kidnapped on their way to school three weeks ago. Today (November 11, 2021) it has been confirmed that the Moti brothers - Zia,15, Zayyad, 11, ...

[spotlight] Children living with HIV have to take multiple different antiretroviral (ARV) pills or syrups twice a day, while most adults in South Africa have been offered one pill once a day regimens for around a decade. At the recent South African H...

[GroundUp] Residents of Powerline informal settlement in Gqeberha say their portable toilets are filled to the brim with faeces. Rubbish is strewn everywhere and water tanks in the community have not been refilled for a month.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- Like many nations hit by COVID-19, South Africa has seen rising unemployment and hunger since the onset of the pandemic. One school - the Green Business College - is tackling those issues in innovative ways, giving people the sk...

[SAnews.gov.za] The South African Revenue Service (SARS) collection rates have once again recorded positive growth, collecting a gross R1.55 trillion in the past year.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa is now home to over 13 million adults who are fully vaccinated.

[SAnews.gov.za] Social Development Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu is hosting a three-day series of dialogues on sexual and reproductive health and rights for short statured South Africans in partnership with the United Nations Population Fu...

[GroundUp] On 10 December 1996, President Nelson Mandela signed the final Constitution into law at Sharpeville, Vereeniging. A band of activists from the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality, the AIDS Law Project and the AIDS Consortium at...

[GroundUp] Only nine of the 433 registered voters voted at the Phungulelweni voting station in the 2021 local elections.

[GroundUp] A team from GroundUp and the Limpopo Mirror has won the Vodacom Regional Journalist of the Year Award in the investigative journalism category in the combined Free State, North-West, Northern Cape and Limpopo regions. The names of the winn...

[Daily Maverick] Labour law and constitutional law expert Halton Cheadle said on Wednesday night that he believed a challenge to the constitutionality of a mandatory vaccination policy in the workplace and even retrenchments on these grounds will in ...

[Daily Maverick] An in-depth interview with Presidential Climate Commission Chairperson Valli Moosa about how South Africa is rising to the challenge of global heating and all that it portends for our economy, development, human rights and, ultimatel...

[Daily Maverick] The payment model that charges no fees or interest - unless you miss an instalment.

[Daily Maverick] Bafana Bafana face two crunch ties in the bid to qualify for Qatar 2022. Coach Hugo Broos says in the unfortunate event that they fall short, the lessons learnt by his young team will be immeasurable.

[Daily Maverick] The countdown is on to the medium-term budget this week but the following week may well see the SA Reserve Bank raise the repo rate - making it even harder for the government to achieve its fiscal objectives in the face of higher deb...

[Daily Maverick] Who are the board members and executives at Prasa who enabled the looting of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa)? This week we turn to Sfiso Buthelezi, a former deputy minister of finance and current member of Parliamen...

[Daily Maverick] According to a recent report, as their work ratchets up due to the precarious state of the climate crisis, environmental activists around the world are increasingly being threatened, silenced and criminalised.

[Daily Maverick] These 2021 polls, which certainly will be remembered for the pressure felt by the ANC, may have also been the final election in which any of the major parties tried to claim that they are for a better life for all South Africans.

[Daily Maverick] Unlike the DA and the ANC, the third-biggest party in South Africa, the EFF, showed growth in the local elections. However, there was no red wave. Performance was patchy -- high in some areas with new gains, and a struggle in provinc...

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's faulty approach to life sentences is catching up with us.

[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's department of mineral resources and energy recently announced its choice of companies to build and operate a new "batch" of renewable energy projects. This is part of a programme in which the government invite...

[East African] South Africa's power utility Eskom has blamed incessant blackouts affecting the country on problems in Zambia.

[Daily Maverick] Judge Margaret Victor has overturned Justice Minister Ronald Lamola's decision to extradite Manuel Chang to Mozambique, calling it 'irrational'.

[Daily Maverick] Water is a complex topic worldwide, but particularly in a water-scarce and unequal country like South Africa. Our towns and cities are facing increasingly severe water shortages. While some of these problems relate to ageing infrastr...

[Daily Maverick] Liberation fighters, young people, health and educational researchers, foreigners, a people's doctor, a boxing champion and a reverend aboard the ill-fated SS Mendi are among this year's recipients - some posthumously - of National O...

[Daily Maverick] Zukiswa Pikoli is a journalist at Maverick Citizen.

[Daily Maverick] Maverick Citizen is running a series of weekly portraits of those who died and the stories of the loved ones left behind. Harriet Perlman, Darnell Nxumalo and photographer Mark Lewis have been interviewing families as part of an ongo...

[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Social Development successfully held public hearings on the Children's Amendment Bill in OR Tambo District Municipality yesterday. Participants expressed their support for the Bill and shared th...

[Parliament of South Africa] The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) today received a briefing from the Auditor-General (AG) on Eskom's annual report and financial statements for the 2020/21 financial year.