The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown have accelerated the need for South Africa to move its Parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria.
For the past month ambassadors and high commissioners have had just one thing on their minds: how to assist their nationals get home when the world’s borders are ...
Philip and Clair Oxley-Oxland are aboard MSC Fantasia crusing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and are now stuck in Lisbon, Portugal
Abramjee this week announced a community drive called #OperationCorona19, which will co-ordinate efforts to distribute one million bars of soap
Islamic leaders tell of the country's role in curbing spread of fanaticism in Africa
At the same time that African heads of mission in Pretoria were being briefed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on South Africa’s priorities for the AU this week, in ...
Plan to extend new track and stations to serve a wider area with more than R110 billion expected to be spent on track and 19 new stations
Cycling around Africa just one of the challenges tackled by Riaan Manser
Alberto Pedro D?Alotto, is settling in and just a few weeks into his posting he is deep in meetings
He has swum the oceans of the world and seen first hand what plastic is doing
Japan?s ambassador designate feels welcome in SA
We are not naming the man arrested in connection with the rape of a young girl in the toilets of the Dros restaurant.
A breakthrough court ruling saw a serial noise offender given a jail sentence for failing to keep noise levels down at his township shebeen.
Marchers from organisations across Tshwane participated in the event inspired by the #ThumaMina campaign, to take a stand against violence and abuse.
While issues of poverty, education and violence persist, we cannot rub our hands with satisfaction and say ?Thanks to the youth of 1976, all is well?.
The authorities failed to break Ebrahim’s spirit, and instead reinvigorated his commitment to the values and principles of the ANC.
Dame Judith Macgregor speaks on her stay in South Africa
BRITAIN has long been a popular destination for South African tourists, and now is a good time to plan a visit.
As I look back at my three decades at Independent Media, I am reminded of all that has changed, and all that is still changing, says Pretoria News editor Valerie ...
Delivering the inaugural ZK Matthews lecture at the University of Fort Hare in 2001, former president Thabo Mbeki expressed somewhat of a longing about the legacy ...
Val Boje finds that Dubai is more than a traveller's transit hub.
Tshwane mayor Kgosientso ‘Sputla’ Ramokgopa is a man of vision and has expansive plans to take the capital city into a new era
Venture into the world's largest city for a variety of thrills, writes Valerie Boje.