South Africa Mail & Guardian

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:47 +0000
Appointment of Chief Director: NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine
Professor Binu Luke has been appointed as chief director of the NWU Desmond Tutu School of Medicine.

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:33:08 +0000
‘Judges are not above scrutiny’: MK Party and ATM push for lifestyle audits
The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:55:22 +0000
Immediate ceasefire declared as US and Iran head to Islamabad talks
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic channel in a rapidly shifting conflict

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:45:52 +0000
Publishers are learning that revenue infrastructure also needs an interface
The old digital publishing argument was simple enough: produce strong reporting, build a loyal readership, and the business model will eventually settle around that value. In principle, the argument remains attractive. In practice, it has become hard...

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:15:00 +0000
‘Judges are not above scrutiny’: MK Party and ATM push for lifestyle audits
The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:33:15 +0000
Our LEN is here; Now for quality checks in Ireland
SA’s first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, lenacapavir — 37 920 doses — arrived last week at OR Tambo Airport via two shipments from Dublin. The batches reached the country six weeks later than expected. The delay of the shi...

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:58:43 +0000
Tshwane metro chief halted irregular R800 million security tender
Yolanda Faro says that the testimony of corruption revealed at the Madlanga Commission concerning corruption in her department is alarming

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:51 +0000
Joe Latakgomo: Founding editor of Sowetan – critical role in black journalism
It was at The World that he found himself standing alongside one of South Africa’s most towering figures in the press, Percy Qoboza. To serve as deputy to a legend requires a particular kind of strength — not the strength that competes but the st...

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:13:12 +0000
Brics, the GNU and the erasure of African consciousness
The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They elevated form above the history of conquest. They treated settler possessi...

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:09 +0000
SA strengthens agricultural trade amid Middle East tension
Analysts say that while trade diversification remains important, the Middle East provides key corridors to agricultural exports

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