[The Conversation Africa] We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials. It's no wonder, then, that the food we eat, the water we drink and even the air w...

[Premium Times] South Africa won all six matches in Morocco en route to becoming African Champions.

[Daily Maverick] Less than a day after he was elected as leader of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, Siboniso Duma faced his first test -- to persuade conference delegates to allow party president Cyril Ramaphosa to speak without being booed, heckled or dist...

[CAF] South Africa are the new Queens of Africa.

[Daily Maverick] So, wage growth in the mining sector almost doubled the rate of inflation between 2001 and 2020. In 2001, the average earnings per employee per year stood at R59,874. By 2020, that had reached R335,096, a five-and-a-half-fold increas...

[Daily Maverick] Struggling consumers will face greater financial pressure after the South African Reserve Bank announced on 21 July that interest rates would increase by 75 basis points (bps), taking the repo rate to 5.5% and the prime lending rate ...

[Daily Maverick] A confident majority of the 1,607 delegates to the ANC's elective conference in KwaZulu-Natal expressed their support for former president Jacob Zuma when they voted in former provincial youth league president Siboniso Duma as the pr...

[Daily Maverick] Team South Africa is raring to go at the Games in Birmingham this week.

[Daily Maverick] Banyana Banyana clinched their maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations crown on Saturday 23 July, finally ending a wait of two decades for the title of African Queens.

[Daily Maverick] Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother's readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters' enthusiasm about reading to him. He has won the 2022 I...

[Daily Maverick] The 'I Am' movement cannot be ignored. Backed by nearly 7,000 health workers, it is calling for concrete changes to systemically fix the falling-apart public healthcare system. Caught in the doldrums of bureaucracy and government ina...

[Daily Maverick] The public show of support for former President Jacob Zuma displayed by delegates at the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal conference over the weekend demonstrates just how different the province is from the rest of the country. The fact that the ...

[Daily Maverick] At least 23 people have been shot dead in or around taverns across South Africa this month with the grisly count increasing overnight after two people were killed in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane on the evening of Friday 22 July.

[Daily Maverick] New leaders of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal were announced in the early hours of Sunday and they are not allies of party president Cyril Ramaphosa. A completely new leadership - from former president Jacob Zuma's 'Taliban' slate - now ru...

[GroundUp] Mass suspensions of dissenting office bearers ruled "invalid" and "unconstitutional"

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africans waited with baited breath once again, in anticipation of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee announcement on an interest rate hike on July 21, 2022. Everyone knew it was inevitable given the state of t...

[RFI] Morocco skipper Ghizlane Chebbak on Friday hailed her teammates for the way they had changed views about women's football during their surge to the final at the Cup of Nations.

[VOA] India and Namibia have signed an agreement to bring cheetahs to the forests of the South Asian country, where the large cat became extinct 70 years ago.

[CAF] Millions of football fans across the African continent and acrioss the world are set to tune in to tonigh's historic TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations final between hosts Morocco and South Africa at Rabat's Prince Moulay Abdellah Stad...

[CAF] Striker Hildah Magaia scored both goals for South Africa to defeat host Morocco 2-1 on Saturday to win their first-ever TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations title.

[GroundUp] Trial of man accused of killing Phelokazi Mqathanya postponed for sixth time since May

[Africa Check] A video posted on Twitter on 20 July 2022 and retweeted more than 1,600 times so far shows a man next to a vehicle fighting off what seem to be three hijackers.

[GroundUp] The fate of about 20 households hangs in the air as the Agricultural Research Council moves ahead with plans to lease the farm

[GroundUp] The Nomakanjani informal settlement community in Gqeberha has been blocking Addo Road for four days over a lack of electricity

[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has published for implementation the Biodiversity Management Plans (BMP-S) for Aloe Ferox and the Honeybush Species Cyclopia subtenata and Cyclopia intermedia.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[spotlight] Tuberculosis (TB) is hard to diagnose in children, especially very young ones. This is because it is difficult for children to cough up the sputum required to perform the gold standard molecular TB test. Even if they do manage to cough up...

[Democracy Works] Ordinary citizens, consumers, and civil society must play more active roles as shareholders of state-owned enterprises than is currently the case, as activist shareholders in private companies do, to hold these entities accountable.

[Govt of SA] Opening remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the occasion of the Official Talks during the State Visit by Côte d'Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara to South Africa, Union Buildings

[SAnews.gov.za] Government continues to solicit input from many organisations and professionals to assist in identifying individuals who can come back to Eskom and help to get the old power stations back in order and mentor younger managers.