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

For many years, friends and family of John Best, well-known police officer, former chairman of the Eastern Cape Emergency Coordinating Committee and now city councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro ...

Western diets make up most of South Africa’s food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants. Here’s how farmers can be nudged to change their ways, writes Qinisani Nhlakanipho ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet voted to scale up the offensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza to the point of seizing the entire enclave and holding its ...

Gold prices rise as the US dollar weakens ahead of the Fed's interest rate decision this week. Analysts are predicting a $3200-$3350 gold price range.

When Canadian maple syrup came my way for a recent birthday, I knew that some of it was destined for a breakfast of waffles with maple syrup-glazed bacon.

In the face of unrelenting allegations of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, what would constitute an act of Jewish self-betrayal? On Freedom Day 2025, at the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town, this ...

MTN and Gemfields highlight Africa’s duality: thrilling growth and unpredictable risk. MTN is thriving amid economic stabilisation, with standout results in Ghana and Nigeria. Gemfields, meanwhile, ...

We are in a situation where politicians from different parties are negotiating over how the government will spend money. For now, it is relatively simple, it is between just two parties, whose agendas ...

Marvel movie "Thunderbolts" brought in $162 million at theaters around the world over the weekend, providing a solid start to the summer movie season that is key to Hollywood's year at the box office.

Qhobosheane’s work on policing and organised crime can be seen as intended to strengthen the viability of South Africa’s democracy. At the time of her death there was no sense that she had lost any of ...

The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepared by senior officials tasked with ...