By ROBYN LESLIE, CAROLYN RAPHAELY & RUTH HOPKINS. Oscar Pistorius didn’t only reach notable speeds on the athletics track – his trial was wrapped...

By BHEKI C. SIMELANE –  Government seems to have a laudable intention to reach out to poor communities, the latest evidence being the relocation...

By Kamini Padayachee, Mpume Madlala, Lauren Rawlins and Bongani Hans –  Durban – A suspected Ebola case had Addington Hospital on red alert on Wednesday...

 By Reuters –  Zambia’s President Michael Sata has died in London, where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness, three private Zambian...

By Vuyo Mkize –  Johannesburg – Why did the Gauteng Health MEC not interrogate the evidence of the department’s own medical expert witness on...

Johannesburg – ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe has compared Cosatu’s largest affiliate the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) to a person suffering...

 By QAANITAH HUNTER –  It was around this time last year, when the initial signs of deep divisions in Cosatu surfaced and the ANC made...

By GEORGINA ALEXANDER and JOHN ENDRES for AFRICA CHECK. The Africa growth story is making headlines: Africa’s population is rising faster than that of...

By Reuters – Shoprite’s share price jumped over 7% yesterday, making its biggest daily gain since 2008. Its revenue for the three months to...

BY PHAKAMISA NDZAMELA –  AS TALK of a sale of “non-strategic government assets” to strengthen Eskom’s balance sheet went into overdrive last week, I wondered whether...

By Victoria John – A shortage of staff and dedicated educational facilities is depriving many with special needs of an education. Eight-year-old Boniswa Mthembu...

The University of the Western Cape hosted a state-of-the-art experience on World Food Day 16 October 2014. Food insecurity needs to be approached in...