Cape Town International Airport was thrown into chaos on Thursday, 22 January after a “damaged power cable” crippled critical operations, including the fuel depot. The resulting power outages sparked ...

The new Donald Trump administration has started its term of office with a massive burst of activity, but much of it has been confused or confusing. And some of it has been deeply concerning for pretty ...

In 2012, banker Paul Harris wrote to a friend in Australia who had sent him a concerned note after reading that South Africa had five more years before going over a cliff. The letter has been ...

The temptation among some in opposition to ‘go it alone’ and abandon the GNU project runs the risk of a surgent populist coalition governing the country.

That he was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and spent 29 years in jail for assassinating SACP leader Chris Hani was a ‘travesty of justice’, his killer Janusz Waluś has ...

By October last year, 38 government departments and 28 SOEs had accumulated a jaw-dropping figure of R123.56-billion lost to ‘irregular expenditure’. The same fellows who couldn’t organise a budget in ...

In sub-Saharan Africa more than six million pregnant and parenting girls are out of school – and few go back after giving birth. Here’s how the barriers to girls’ schooling can be broken down to help ...

A parliamentary report has revealed that some MPs were routinely absent from committee meetings, with some members achieving only a 30% attendance rate in the first six months of the new parliamentary ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military ...

Absolutely nothing that Trump did in his first week was bland, businesslike or quietly efficient. It was just one startling, noisy thing after another, which is clearly the way he likes it.

As Israel and Hamas inched precariously towards the first stage of their ceasefire deal, memories of the years I spent travelling to, working in and reporting from Gaza were resurfacing.

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.