US President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be "very hard" to make a deal with Canada after it gave its ...

A visit to the Port of Cape Town reveals the complex reality behind Transnet’s recovery efforts, and why the state’s massive financial intervention might just be the lifeline the South African economy ...

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New York City detectives investigating this week's mass shooting were interviewing the attacker's associates in his home state of Nevada on Wednesday, as gun safety advocates expressed dismay that he ...

Woolworths has announced a first-of-its-kind benefits package designed to change the lives of thousands of its employees.

Plastic pollution was a big-ticket item at a recent meeting of African environment ministers in Nairobi. The experience of communal farmers in the Eastern Cape, who are tackling single-use nappies ...

One of the most important and most interesting questions of our time is whether President Cyril Ramaphosa has the political power to do what he says he wants to do. For several years, he has been ...

For more than 20 years, the law has required that the minister of health issues regulations to govern the advertising of medicines in South Africa, but as yet no such regulations are in place. In his ...

Cape Town came terrifyingly close to running dry, but 10 years on, is the city ready for the next climate-driven drought?

Some names need no introduction, and this August they’ll be on one stage – ready to be heard, challenged and engaged with.

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.

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 ...