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After a lengthy court process, Tiffany Meek, charged with murdering her 11-year-old son Jayden-Lee Meek, was denied bail after she was found to have misled the court.
Having shaped the treaty, Africa must capitalise on recent global momentum to benefit from a new era in ocean governance.
I didn’t think I’d be able to fit these four large lamb shanks into my tagine, but with a bit of careful rearranging, there they were, out of sight behind the conical lid.
From fake companies winning multimillion-rand contracts to whistleblower warnings ignored, this exposé reveals how corruption flourished unchecked at South Africa’s Sector Education and Training ...
Thousands of firefighters struggled to put out a dozen wildfires raging in northern Portugal and central Spain through the night and into Wednesday, in the largest wave of blazes in the Iberian ...
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) nearby and sparked evacuation orders as far away as Hawaii and ...
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The City of Johannesburg says it is assailed by illegal outdoor advertisers and is worried that the perpetrators are not just rogue operators, but that there is a network of companies using forged ...
The Trade and Industry Ministry says it is still awaiting ‘substantive feedback’ from the US on its trade proposal as the 1 August deadline looms.
Marianne Thamm is a South African journalist, author and stand-up comedian. She is the assistant editor of the Daily Maverick and has written several books. In 2016, she released the memoir, Hitler, ...
With 1 August set as the date on which sky-high tariffs will be imposed on South African exports to the US, anxiety levels are high in the Eastern Cape – especially in the automotive industry, one of ...
The controversial debate on whether the live export trade can ever be humane – or should be banned altogether – has been reopened by the Department of Agriculture’s release of draft regulations ...