Opinion and Features

Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India’s election, with fake clips involving two top aides of Prime Minister Narendra...

Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the US will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate...

As if load shedding was not enough to bring businesses to its knees, South Africans are now confronted with water shortages, with the situation...

A recent report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime examines the four main “extortion economies” and how Cape Town has emerged as...

German company HyImpulse this week successfully launched a candle wax-powered rocket capable of carrying commercial satellites on a test suborbital flight into space for...

Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur - or any extinct animal - based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so...

As the group of amateur archaeologists sifted through tiles, animal teeth and pottery fragments buried within an ancient Roman pit in eastern England, one...

THE MARKETS ON MONDAY COLUMN: Global and South African financial markets have continued to recover strongly, writes economist Chris Harmse.* Chris Harmse is the...

OPINION: BHP has put South Africa and its mining sector on the spot. The $140 billion Australian group’s ambitious swoop on rival Anglo American...

US retail giant Amazon.com has launched in South Africa as Amazon.co.za, offering shoppers access to 20 product categories, including consumer electronics, sporting equipment, toys...