China is moving deeper into the soft power void opening up on the world stage. Trump is an unwitting ally. The more mercurial his behaviour, the more China seems the adult in the room.

Although Shamila Batohi’s selection followed a more participatory route, the process remains opaque and centralised in the Presidency.

South Africa’s crisis is not just a crisis of stagnation, which breeds inequality. For more than a decade, we’ve grown at an average of just 1% per year. That is a slow collapse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a second-tier team of aides and deputy ministers to hold peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, spurning Kyiv's challenge to go there in person to meet ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Qatar will invest $10 billion in coming years in the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of the country's capital Doha, the largest U.S. military facility in ...

At which, somebody at the table will be muttering about how they just can’t stomach rare meat. This one is for the rest of us.

South Africa made massive progress in reducing transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. Even so, about 7,000 babies still contract the virus every year. Experts put this down to having the ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, ...

Hearing firsthand stories from Ukrainians about Russian atrocities can’t help but leave you ashamed of Pretoria’s stance on this awful war.

Stocks struggled for direction on Thursday while the dollar stumbled as the euphoria from market tailwinds earlier in the week fizzled out, with traders looking to US data later in the day for further ...

A New Zealand government committee on Wednesday recommended three Indigenous lawmakers be temporarily suspended from parliament following the performance of a haka during the reading of a contentious ...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Wednesday that she believes recent levels of illegal immigration could provide a sufficient legal rationale to suspend habeas corpus, the right of ...