South Africa Top Stories

    WORLD HEART DAY: Straight from the heart — Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle’s cardiac care crusade
    Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle shares frontline insights from decades in public service on Africa’s silent killer – hypertension – and why a simple blood pressure check could save your life. Also, her plan for olive oil and plastic, if she were president.
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    WORLD HEART DAY: SA’s heart health crisis demands a public health response
    South Africa’s heart health crisis claims 225 lives daily. Researchers call for routine blood pressure screening, integrated chronic care and policies that make prevention affordable.
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    BROKEN HOMES: Joburg’s silent siege — Kensington residents move out as home hijackers move in
    Abandoned and hijacked homes in Johannesburg’s Kensington are driving residents out as illegal extensions, overcrowding and utility theft pile up costs and erode property values.
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    MADLANGA COMMISSION: Taxi boss Oupa Sindane linked to extortion racket and leaked police intelligence
    Evidence before the Madlanga Commission places taxi boss Oupa Sindane at the centre of alleged extortion, police information leaks and intelligence linked to Cat Matlala.
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    The Madlanga Commission proves digital money trails can expose deep-seated corruption, but South Africa must turn these electronic footprints into swift prosecutions and lasting institutional reform.
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    COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: Parallel realities — inside the online conversation over the White Cross Project
    Organisers framed the Washington memorial as a tribute to all farm murder victims in SA; critics called it political theatre. Murmur Intelligence data shows how the debate unfolded online without US amplification.
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    CAPITAL CALCULATIONS OP-ED: Eskom’s Medupi and Kusile sleight-of-hand — the untold billions in costs left out
    Eskom has attacked media reports for overstating the cost of Medupi and Kusile. But its own figures answer a much narrower question – and its refusal to disclose what is excluded raises a more serious issue of transparency and accountability.
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    The fuel contamination scandal in the Garden Route was caused by the fuel additive N-methylaniline, which remains legal in South Africa but is banned across the world. This additive is legal because South Africa has inadequate testing standards, and it is something Parliament needs to rectify.
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    FAR-RIGHT ALLIANCES: Ernst Roets’ Washington cross spectacle struggles for US attention
    Lex Libertas’ 3,000 white crosses in Washington event failed to attract much US media coverage, but the political connections behind it say something revealing about the growing network between global right-wing movements.
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    EAST RAND MURDERS: After another woman murdered in Ekurhuleni, here’s what we know about the killings
    Another woman has been found in Tembisa as police investigate a string of killings in Ekurhuleni since July, prompting questions about possible links between the cases. While some similarities have raised concerns about possible connections between the cases, significant differences have complicated the theory.
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