South Africa Top Stories

    A Clergyman’s Daughter is an intimate memoir by Hannah Botsis, chronicling life as a minister’s daughter in post-apartheid South Africa.
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    Here’s a simple recipe for muffins, using cocoa, coffee and hazelnut oil. But you can substitute a flavourless oil or any other nutty oil.
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    US President Donald Trump said he backed lawmakers’ efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite previous opposition to the measure.
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    SYDNEY, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Australia would not co-host the COP31 climate summit with Turkey amid an ongoing stalemate between the two countries.
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    SYDNEY, Nov 17 (Reuters) - More than 70 schools in Australia and New Zealand were closed on Monday for cleaning after asbestos was discovered in widely used children’s play sand products.
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    US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday he believed the approaching vote on releasing Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein should help put to rest allegations that President Donald Trump had any connection to the late sex offender’s abuse and trafficking of underage girls.
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    Elephants confined in fenced spaces are an ecological and economic challenge, but removing the species also has consequences. At a time when virtually no one in South Africa wants elephants and the animals cannot be given away, the RoiSan Reserve project in Limpopo is taking in 15 animals to restore...
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    In the past three weeks, two chartered flights carrying Palestinians fleeing Gaza have landed at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport. What followed was a conundrum for South African authorities.
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    Three years ago, Daily Maverick broke news of a judgment about evidence suggesting the 28s gang had infiltrated the Western Cape’s police management. Premier Alan Winde was recently pressured into releasing a report on the judgment, but there’s still no real clarity on police accountability.
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    A Level 9 storm tore through Gauteng over the weekend, uprooting trees, flooding roads and plunging neighbourhoods into darkness. The deluge came in the wake of an Amnesty International report that exposed deepening flood risks in SA’s informal settlements.
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    With the 2029 national elections in sight, we test whether the DA’s empowerment rethink resonates with the majority it hopes to attract. Ferial Haffajee put some tough questions to the party’s head of policy, Mat Cuthbert.
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