[SAnews.gov.za] The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has advised all NSFAS eligible students with successful funding status to proceed with registration for the 2022 academic year at their respective institutions, where they have been ad...

[The Conversation Africa] What is it like to discover a new coronavirus variant? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we hear the inside story from one of the South African scientists who first alerted the world to the omicron variant....

[The Conversation Africa] Trust in state institutions to protect citizens is a prerequisite for sharing social spaces. This trust is corrupted in South Africa, where there are persistent anxieties that crime and violence are out of control.

[The Conversation Africa] In his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, British naturalist Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. This, he argued, was the mechanism of biological evolution: like an animal or plant breeder selects f...

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent his well wishes to newly elected Chairperson of the National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders, Her Majesty Nkosikazi Nomandla Dorothy Mhlauli of the amaRharhabe Kingdom.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has expressed gratitude to the South African Police Service for its swift response in arresting a group of armed men who were forcefully trying to take over the Durban High Cour...

[GroundUp] Buffalo City denies it but has launched a probe,

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has now administered more than 30 million vaccine doses, 63 390 of which were given in the past 24 hours.

[GroundUp] You need to try to avoid getting an antibiotic-resistant infection for two reasons. You don't want to end up in hospital with a difficult-to-treat potentially fatal disease and you don't want to spread such an infection and put other peopl...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) says South Africa's new Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court must bring more than legal expertise to the bench.

[GroundUp] Seven people arrested during a police raid on Monday morning at Cissie Gool House, appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

[GroundUp] Former school drop-out Emihle Ntunja from Cape Town says boxing changed her life.

[Namibian] THE second half of the current Premier Soccer League (PSL) season gets underway with two Nedbank Cup Round of 32 games on Friday afternoon.

[Daily Maverick] Our round-up of successful criminal prosecutions, arrests or ongoing matters in South Africa's courts based on media releases from the National Prosecuting Authority. We do this to reflect on the rule of law and to make justice visib...

[Daily Maverick] South Africa's wetlands are in a critical state - although steps are being taken to better conserve these ecosystems.

[Daily Maverick] Professor Dr Omphemetse S Sibanda is a Professor of Law and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Management and Law at the University of Limpopo. He holds a Doctor of Laws (in International Economic Law) from North West University, a...

[Daily Maverick] A bleak prospect for a resounding ANC victory in KwaZulu-Natal in the 2024 provincial government elections is driving a fierce contest for power ahead of the party's national elective conference in December.

[Daily Maverick] C-Squared Consumer Connectedness, a company found by the Special Investigating Unit to have potentially fraudulently benefited from a multimillion-rand PPE procurement tender, was hired by the Free State ANC to supply event equipment...

[Daily Maverick] On the second day of JSC interviews to select the next Chief Justice, a relentless focus on Judge Mandisa Maya's gender made proceedings feel particularly insubstantial - an issue amplified by the sense that most commissioners were t...

[Daily Maverick] Public Health experts in South Africa are calling on the South African government to explain and clarify the reasoning behind a new set of regulations issued late on Monday after a Cabinet meeting.

[Daily Maverick] In real life, Professor Balthazar is one of South Africa's foremost legal minds. He chooses to remain anonymous, so it doesn't interfere with his daily duties.

[Daily Maverick] In the past 12 months the Department of Health recorded 3,729 pregnancies among pupils between the ages of 10 and 14, and without urgent interventions the number is likely to double in the next 12 months.

[Daily Maverick] With the release of the second part of the Zondo Commission report - and the possible political consequences which may follow - it is clear what the real struggles in our politics and society are about.

[Daily Maverick] President Cyril Ramaphosa is leading a continental campaign to cancel Israel's status as an accredited observer at the African Union (AU) this weekend, prompting the South African Jewish community to accuse his government of an "obse...

[Daily Maverick] There's a major brouhaha playing out ahead of the president's State of the Nation Address and the Budget Speech later this month. It all revolves around the potential continuation of the special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Gra...

[The Conversation Africa] Author and academic Pumla Dineo Gqola's latest book Female Fear Factory is a sibling of her award-winning earlier book Rape: A South African Nightmare. Her feminist scholarship and thought have spotlighted slavery, artistic ...

[GroundUp] Just two arrests for drug possession, five arrested for immigration offences

[New Zimbabwe] Zimbabwean and other foreign students who studied at South African universities and colleges under critical skills areas will no longer have the automatic permanent residency privilege, Home Affairs minister, Aaron Motsoaledi has said.

[New Frame] For the moment, the country's first date with the infamous lender could be more important from a policy perspective than a fiscal one because while it is small it signals a big shift in practice.

[Daily Maverick] Janis Ian is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit 'Society's Child' and 1975 Top Ten single 'At Seventeen', from her LP 'Between the Lines'...