Latest reporting on South Africa (place): 45 stories, most recently on 17 October 2026. Source-linked and updated as new reports are published.
South African households are being crippled by a cost of living crisis that does not show up in headline economic indicators. To restore their purchasing power and human dignity, there needs to be an increased focus on logistics, municipal tariffs and structural reforms.
Business & Economy · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
While labour unions call for drastic government intervention to halt job losses, economic experts caution that an outright ban could fuel black-market trading rather than fix South Africa’s underlying manufacturing challenges.
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
A lie about white genocide, served with the full intoxicating power of the United States, is quietly poisoning the room. South Africa’s job is to open the door before morning.
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
Participants at Africa Energy Week in Cape Town are calling for greater efforts to ensure the vast resources of the African continent deliver industrial growth and provide much-needed employment as deals worth billions of dollars have already been struck at the five-day event.
Africa · Africanews · Latest ·
Fossilised lion trackway in the Goukamma Nature Reserve (30cm scalebar). CC BY The coastline near the southern tip of Africa looked vastly different between about 400,000 years ago and 70,000 years ago, compared with today.
Science & Climate · The Conversation · Africa ·
Completing value-added tax (VAT) returns takes time, and waiting for a refund can tie up money a business needs to pay suppliers or invest. The South African Revenue Service wants to ease both pressures while making it harder for businesses to under-report VAT.
Business & Economy · The Conversation · Africa ·
dump dust blows into Springs residents' homes.
Health · AllAfrica · Health ·
The Citizen Hidden in a tanker and destined for South Africa’s roads, more than R10.4 million worth of illicit cigarettes were intercepted at the Musina-Beitbridge border, with a 54-year-old Zimbabwean truck driver now convicted and fined R10 million.
Africa · NewZimbabwe · Latest ·
In this extract from his talk on Remodelling Black Economic Empowerment at the BBBEE Symposium, organised by the South African Presidency in partnership with the Johannesburg Business School, William Gumede outlines the political and financial cost of BEE to the ANC and South Africa.
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
Agriculture in the global south remains under pressure to produce more food while responding to climate change and resource constraints. Policy responses have focused on increasing production.
Business & Economy · The Conversation · Africa ·
Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the River Nile and Lake Kyoga. Most of its 4.3 million people farm small, rain-fed plots.
Africa · The Conversation · Africa ·
[GroundUp] Nearly 3,500 teachers trained in Bala Wande programme
Education · AllAfrica · Education ·
At least 12 women have been reported murdered in Ekurhuleni since July 2026, prompting speculation that a serial killer may be operating in Gauteng. Police have set up a task team to investigate possi…
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
Tensions have flared in South Africa after a court ruling prompted the government to open its application system to all foreign nationals, regardless of their legal status.
Africa · France 24 · Africa ·
South Africa’s high enrolment in mathematical literacy masks deep-seated systemic failures and widening educational inequality that needs to be addressed by urgent reforms to teacher training and career guidance.
Education · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
[Scrolla] Gauteng has registered 203,794 matric candidates for the 2026 final exams, with 1,065 examination centres ready to handle the record numbers. Learners caught cheating with hidden electronic devices could lose their results or be banned from writing matric exams for up to three examination…
Education · AllAfrica · Education ·
With El Niño bringing hotter and drier conditions to South Africa this summer, the country is facing an urgent reminder that more must be done to prepare for future climate risks.
Science & Climate · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
As South Africa’s 2026/27 summer planting season begins, farmers navigate strong soil moisture against looming threats of El Niño drought and rising input costs.
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
As South Africa heads into local government elections it is important that Community Policing Forums (CPFs) remain strictly non-partisan. There is a fear that political candidates will use CPF platforms for campaigning, and to prevent this provincial authorities need to reinforce recusal rules…
Africa · Daily Maverick · Latest (South Africa) ·
Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used to understand disease, interpret genetic tests and, in some cases, guide treatment.
Health · The Conversation · Africa ·
Bambara groundnut Ton Rulkens/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other climate disasters, this can be devastating for farmers, particularly smallholder farmers whose livelihoods and food security…
Science & Climate · The Conversation · Africa ·