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According to the Department of Health Consolidated Impact Assessment report, the three most impacted provinces regarding HIV and TB prevention services following the US funding cuts are Western Cape, ...
Youth vaping surges in SA as lawmakers delay regulation and retailers continue selling vapes freely to underage users.
South Africa’s ambitious renewable energy masterplan has been approved, but will need huge funding and co-ordination between ...
The VAT hike, part of revenue measures in the 2025 budget, has also deepened the schism between the African National Congress ...
Can the Emirates, and heavy-smoking nations in the Middle East, learn from Sweden's shift?Smoking rates in Sweden are a ...
Three South African environmental and climate justice organisations took the South African government to court in November 2021, to challenge the authorisation of new coal-fired power as part of the ...
Speaking at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s bargaining conference, Mantashe argued that demand for the ferroalloys produced from both minerals was poised to rise ...
Currently, Africa has only one nuclear plant, at Koeberg in South Africa, built by a French consortium. However, other African countries, which includes Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya and ...
With one exception. The Trump administration has thrown open the doors to white Afrikaners from South Africa, establishing a program called “Mission South Africa” to help them come to the ...
Editor's note: Follow South Carolina vs. Duke women's basketball live updates from their Elite Eight game of March Madness. No. 1 seed South Carolina is one step closer to winning back-to-back ...
A South African man confessed to physically abusing and raping his infant daughter, killing her. Hugo Ferreira told Pretorian investigators he was left alone with his week-old baby on June 8 ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...