Cities worldwide celebrated New Year's Eve with fireworks displays and public gatherings, marking the transition from 2024 to 2025 with traditional countdown events and festivities in major landmarks.

This has been a year of triumphs and great progress. But it has also been marked by tragedy, while we need to work urgently to create jobs, ensure all our people receive quality services, and fix the ...

I am optimistic that we are heading towards the new year with a renewed sense of active citizenry – as ordinary people who realise that power does not only lie in the hands of politicians.

Financial losses worth billions of rands continue to widen at Transnet. Its debt problems are smothering. Transnet ports are still a mess. However, there are early recovery signs in its freight rail ...

My name will go down in history as the single greatest example of investigative journaling ever.  Malibongwe the Messianic, first of his kind, will take his place as saviour of journalism and country.

Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has been sidelined by the EFF and his position as a Member of Parliament appears to be at risk, highlighting how in our current electoral system, party headquarters rather than ...

There is a need for a serious reconceptualisation of the land restitution programme in South Africa. In its present form, this programme cannot work and ought to be done away with altogether.

The new year would surely be better than how we had been treated by the recent past with its pandemics and economic tribulations. One hopeful sign, however, was that more than 70 nations had elections ...

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The Trans Agulhas Inflatable Boat Race has taken place each year since 1988 and is known as the toughest inflatable boat race in the world. It is hosted by the Agulhas Inflatable Boat Club (AIBC) and ...

Words of the year do not have to be new coinages, but may be existing words that seem to have become particularly apposite or resonant.

Ukraine said it had struck a storage and maintenance depot for long-range Shahed drones in Russia’s Oryol region, adding that this had ‘significantly reduced’ Russia’s ability to launch mass drone ...