The two countries signed agreements on cooperation in various sectors, including diplomacy, agriculture, education and public health, KCNA said. At a banquet, Kim said Lukashenko's visit to…
By David Lawder The redesigned notes, planned to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, will also for the first time in 165 years drop the signature of the U.S.
By Lisa Richwine In one of her moments on stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Swift encouraged artists to give themselves time to learn a craft without seeking immediate feedback on the…
The 2026 South African schoolboy rugby season ramps up this weekend with the annual North-South tournament staged at the Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool (Affies) in Pretoria between 27 and 31 March.
There are few things more formidable in the civil society space than a woman with a dream. Lucinda Evans, feminist activist and founder of the Cape Town non-profit organisation Philisa Abafazi Bethu,…
The scene we keep ignoring I was nine years old the first time I understood what it meant to be blamed for retaliating against something no one would stop. I was living with a family in…
He was responding to a question about comments by several Russian experts, including on state TV, that Russia should ban oil supplies via the CPC from Kazakhstan in response to Washington's sanctions…
In 1996, former US president Bill Clinton walked out of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fuming, “Who’s the (insert expletive here) superpower here?” One could be forgiven…
Behind the cash purchase of the $1.1 million home in December 2019 were funds sent by Swiss banking giant UBS on Maxwell’s behalf a month earlier, documents in a cache of files released by the…
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has denied that pressure from US President Donald Trump prompted President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw his invitation to President Cyril Ramaphosa to…
Rubio is joining the second day of the gathering of ministers of leading Western democracies, taking place amid wars in Iran and Ukraine, economic uncertainty and mounting unease over unpredictable…
Shah, who wore skin-tight trousers, a matching jacket, his signature black Nepali cloth cap and sunglasses at the ceremony, is Nepal's youngest prime minister in decades and the first Madhesi –…
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Eugene de Kock was given a hit list with 33 names – names of people the “higher ups” of the apartheid regime wanted dead. But upon perusing the list he saw no terrorists, only a handful of political…
(This article first appeared as a Johannesburg newsletter. Subscribe here.) Ballet Above Braam – Rooftop Sunset Sessions Dates: 27 March, 18:30 and 28 March, 17:30 Address: Play Braam rooftop.
Payments totalling R3-million are under investigation after motivations – or requests – for the cash from police officers suggested they were involved in protecting President Cyril…
Fairness, safety and integrity. Those are three themes which the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prioritised when it came to the conclusion that from 2028 Olympic Games onwards, transgender…
Along the banks of the Jukskei River, a quiet transformation is under way. What was once a polluted waterway choked with waste is slowly becoming a space of restoration, creativity and community…
Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia says President Cyril Ramaphosa will “know what needs to be done”, following the upcoming court appearance of National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola over…
Winners and losers from the Iran war (spoiler: we all lose) By J Brooks Spector. If the current Middle East crisis could be brought to an end right now by some ‘deus ex machina’ force, who would be…