[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[Daily Maverick] The South African Reserve Bank, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group, this week released a second report looking at the use of distributed ledger technology for interbank payments settlement, taking it on...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- A spate of up to seven murders over the past weekend has driven tension in the Gauteng township of Diepsloot, over the past several days, Times Live reports. Residents threatened to shut down the area and called for greater ...

[New Zimbabwe] ZAPU has condemned the murder of a Zimbabwean man in Diepsloot, North of Johannesburg by a xenophobic South African mob hunting foreigners residing in the area.

[The Conversation Africa] This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first book-length history of black people written in isiZulu. Part of the Nguni la...

[GroundUp] Covid mandatory protocols and regulations will still be adhered to during visits

[GroundUp] "We cannot have children not go to school because they cannot cross the river when it is full," says Sakhile Masikane, of Emakhabeleni, outside Kranskop in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

[GroundUp] Hout Bay fishers have taken issue with the fishing rights allocation process for this year.

[Daily Maverick] If South Africa's nuclear deal with Russia had not been capsized by a court challenge, it would have been the biggest procurement deal signed in the democratic era. A new book by journalist Karyn Maughan and researcher Kirsten Pearso...

[Daily Maverick] On Thursday, Ilse van Rhyn was recommended by the Judicial Service Commission for appointment to the Free State Division of the High Court.

[Daily Maverick] Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi fell victim to the mob. His widow, Nomsa's life was spared after she showed them her passport, but Nyathi was allegedly dragged out of his house, beaten, stoned and set alight in the next street.

[Daily Maverick] An innovator, realising the inefficiency of cleaning Cape Town's waterways using boats and nets, invented a zero-emissions product to combat pollution.

[Daily Maverick] Dondo Mogajane will be the latest senior official to leave the Treasury, fuelling concerns that the institution doesn't have a proactive and strong programme in place for succession planning.

[Daily Maverick] Three provinces in South Africa have been plagued by the largest brown locust swarms in decades. And because of heavy rains, the locust outbreak shows no signs of stopping.

[SAnews.gov.za] North West Provincial Legislature's Portfolio Committee on Premier, Finance, Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs has expressed displeasure with the Ratlou Local Municipality for not taking action against ...

[Govt of SA] Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Patricia de Lille to conduct Pre-Imbizo visit to projects in Free State

[SAnews.gov.za] Cabinet has approved the publication of the draft National Integrated Small Enterprise Development (NISED) Masterplan for public comment.

[Govt of SA] Remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the South African Heads of Mission Conference

[Govt of SA] The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, hereby announces that the Director-General (DG) Dondo Mogajane, whose contract comes to an end on 7 June 2022, has elected not to extend his contract. The DG will leave the National Treasury on ...

[Govt of SA] Western Cape Human Settlements over 35-year-old job creation drive proving to be successful

[Govt of SA] Address by H.E. Dr Naledi Pandor, MP, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation to The South African Heads of Mission Conference

[GroundUp] Learners and teachers are battling at Newtown High School in Fort Beaufort

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has a "tremendous opportunity" to take the global lead in hydrogen and fuel cell production.

[GroundUp] Neither Madibeng nor Tshwane are taking responsibility for the upkeep of the Kgabalatsane to Ga-Rankuwa road

[SAnews.gov.za] Cabinet says the lifting of the National State of Disaster was made possible by the resilience of people in South Africa who complied with all COVID-19 safety protocols designed by government to save lives and livelihoods.

[SAnews.gov.za] Cabinet has welcomed credit rating agency Moody's upgrade of its outlook on South Africa from negative to stable.

[UCT] A fascinating research paper authored by University of Cape Town (UCT) academic Associate Professor Emese Bordy, which carefully studies a trackway made by a tiny, agile dinosaur almost 200 million years ago, offers an "evocative" reading of a ...

[SAnews.gov.za] Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has welcomed the 15-year direct imprisonment sentence given to a corrupt immigration practitioner and an Ethiopian national who tried to defraud South African permits.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Internet giant Google is celebrating the 151st birthday of Charlotte Maxeke, popularly known as the "Mother of Black Freedom". Maxeke was a scholar, an evangelist,  a political activist, as well as an advocate for women's r...