We shouldn’t have to dehorn rhinos to keep them safe. The ideal is to let rhinos live as they should — horns and all. That’s the message from a Nelson Mandela University scientist who led a landmark ...

For one magical afternoon, the streets of Hillbrow in Johannesburg were filled with otherworldly creations as a musical parade moved through in black and white. The event, coordinated by Shade Brixton ...

In the cold winter sunshine, colours burst, flavours are accentuated, and the world seems a better place because the Karoo is in it.

A year ago, my editor Tony Jackman asked me to write a regular column, the K@k Cook, about my kitchen experiments that often ended in disaster. Today, after many successes in the kitchen, I’m proud to ...

Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap and its City Bowl are home to the oldest mosques in the country and, well, rampant Islamophobia. Notions of exceptionalism (and indeed of exclusivity) are precisely what is driving ...

The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented sanctions on four ICC judges in response to the arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu.

Fish finished in the oven with a gratin of onions and cheese is a splendid thing, and one of my prized memories of the home food of my youth.

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A federal jury in Texas on Thursday acquitted the first migrant tried for entering one of the new military zones on the U.S.-Mexico border, marking a legal challenge to the Trump administration plan ...

The key to fixing South Africa’s troubled municipalities is to appoint officials who are capable and know their job, says Cogta Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa, as public comment for the overhaul of ...

Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those ...

The Springbok pecking order may well be shaped by performances in the United Rugby Championship and English Premiership playoffs over the next two weeks.