The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

The death in early February of a 9-year-old South African boy, Alti Willard, who drank poison while scavenging for food in rubbish bins with his father, is a tragic reflection of the persistent food insecurity crisis in the country.

Swift response from firefighters in South Africa to contain fires on Table Mountain, showing promising results. No danger to Cape Town or G20 meeting. Impo...

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More than 100 firefighters are battling two blazes on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain

The US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has raised questions about whether progress can still be made on global policy to mitigate climate change. To explore these questions, Imraan Valodia, pro vice-chancellor: climate, sustainability and inequality and director of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University…

A wildfire has broken out across Table Mountain National Park, blanketing South Africa’s Cape Town in thick smoke.

Peppy look at the rise of plant-based diets skates around the planet from Los Angeles to South Africa but doesn’t really pause to sift through the stats

At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have accused South Africa of enabling ‘genocide’ of white farmers

They should beat Afghanistan to progress, but the batters would have benefited from a hit-out against South Africa

South Africa’s new Expropriation Act, which was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in January 2025, has been at the centre of a political storm set off by the new US administration under President Donald Trump.