[allAfrica] Cape Town -- An interdict against seismic scanning by oil giant Shell has been granted by the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda, IOL reports. This puts the oil giant's fuel exploration activities along the Wild Coast on hold until a s...

[GroundUp] The health department has withdrawn welcome changes to isolation, quarantine and contact tracing policies

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa has, as a mark of deep respect, declared that the late Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu be accorded a Special Official Funeral - Category 1.

[Daily Maverick] It is worrying that after 1968 most sources are ambivalent about Lillian Diedericks. It is appalling that most of them do not question the downplaying of her leading role as a liberation activist.

[New Dawn] President George Manneh Weah has paid tribute to fallen Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, saying his passing is an enormous loss to the global community.

[Daily Maverick] The mystery of where leatherback turtles go after they lay their eggs on the northern beaches of KwaZulu-Natal in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, has finally been explained by knowledge of the five spiralling ocean currents, known as ...

[Daily Maverick] Jeff Kelly Lowenstein is the executive director of the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism (CCIJ) and the Padnos/Sarosik Endowed Professor of Civil Discourse at Grand Valley State University.

[Daily Maverick] On Tuesday morning the Makhanda High Court issued an interim interdict preventing Shell from 'undertaking seismic survey operations under Exploration Right 12/3/252 pending the finalisation of Part B of the notice of motion'. Johan L...

[Daily Maverick] Once the dust has settled after the regional conferences, it will be clear whether the president has enough support to continue for another term.

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's problems with low vaccination rates are connected to race, class, disdain for community organising, and underfunding of the vaccine roll-out. Our New Year's message to the President is: reflect on the real reasons for ...

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has, as a mark of deep respect, declared that the late Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu be accorded a Special Official Funeral - Category 1.

[Seychelles News Agency] Air Seychelles during the weekend carried 110 professional and amateur racers and their technical support on a special flight from Johannesburg, South Africa to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for the 2022 Dakar Rally, the airline said ...

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded at least 3 782 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24-hour reporting cycle, with 15 more fatalities reported.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans to try emulate and celebrate the life of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

[New Frame] Rise tells the enthralling story of how Siya Kolisi came to be the first Black captain of the Springboks, but it fails to fully reveal the humble, humorous man behind the symbol.

[DW] Flags across the country will be flying at half-staff this week as South Africa prepares to say goodbye to the late archbishop and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu.

[CAJ News] SOUTH Africa's top township football tournaments will mark a milestone this week as they timeously return with the topflight league in recess for the festive period.

[Daily Maverick] The farmers in the Eastern Cape's Karoo are given to thousand-yard stares. Moments where they recall the good years, before the current drought. Not easy years in themselves, as is the norm in the Karoo. Or they wonder when the droug...

[Daily Maverick] Our Burning Planet recently exposed how a community of 26,000 people on the western border of the Greater Kruger Conservancy, where the fence has fallen into serious disrepair, faces an eviction order from the government. But why do ...

[This Day] Desmond Tutu, South Africa's anti-apartheid hero, dies at 90

[Daily Maverick] 'Arch is the last of an extraordinarily outstanding generation of leaders that Africa birthed and gifted to the world,' Graça Machel says of the late Desmond Tutu.

[Daily Maverick] Paul van Zyl is Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at The Conduit. He served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998.

[Govt of SA] On behalf of the government and the people of the North West Province, I would like to take this opportunity to join His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, our beloved nation and the international community in sending our condolences ...

[Daily Maverick] The impacts of the findings and recommendations of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture were the story of 2021. And they will be the story of 2022.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Desmond Tutu lived his life with passion, courage, faith and deep insight, but it was a life lived against the odds.

[Govt of SA] On behalf of the government and the people of the North West Province, I would like to take this opportunity to join His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, our beloved nation and the international community in sending our condolences ...

[VOA] Cape Town -- South Africa has started a week of mourning for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90. Cape Town's St George's Cathedral will toll its bells every day at noon through Friday in honor of the anti-aparthe...

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Cape Town -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against apartheid who was revered as his nation's conscience by both Black and white, died on Sunday aged 90.

[Seychelles News Agency] The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has expressed his profound sadness upon hearing the news of the passing of South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, State House said on Sunday.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- South Africa is observing a week of mourning leading up to the Saturday funeral of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90.