Southern Africa
Everything SaharaWire has filed out of South Africa: public affairs, business, technology and culture, in one continuously updated archive.
Beyond the headlines
DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate, Helen Zille, urges registered voters not to stay away from the polls on election day.
Two people killed, three wounded in gang-related shootings in Hanover Park, Cape Town
MyMzansi, a citizen-services platform, has reached prototype stage, but South Africans should not expect immediate public use.
South African police are probing a sixth truck burning incident on the N2 highway in Mpumalanga, following a series of attacks on the N2 and N3 highways over two nights.
South Africa starts testing its wholesale electricity market with external participants, a step towards a more competitive electricity sector.
South Africa's Just Energy Transition is reproducing a familiar democratic contradiction, where communities are invited to participate but lack the power to determine their futures.
A new production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" has opened in Cape Town, featuring a cast of 25 students from Lamta, a musical theatre academy.
A University of KwaZulu-Natal professor contributes to an international study revealing climate's role in shaping relationships between flowering plants and pollinators.
South African Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development chairperson, Xola Nqola, stresses that no one is above the law after the arrest of former Investig...
South Africa's Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa calls for investment in Africa's electricity infrastructure to unlock industrialisation and benefit from growing deman...
Three Orlando Pirates fans from KZN, Sakhile Mthethwa, Bafana Mthenjwa, and Dumisani Mgabhi, traveled 9 hours to Johannesburg to support their team in the Soweto derby.
Corruption in South Africa's police force is widespread, and protecting whistleblowers is crucial to addressing the issue, experts say.
