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Tonga and Samoa head to France with squads enhanced by players capped elsewhere but eligibility changes may have drawbacks

Survivors mourn losses after a massive fire at a ‘hijacked’ building killed at least 74 people in South Africa.

Something remarkable is happening in a remote part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in a semi-desert area called the Karoo. In the past 15 years 64 radio receiving dishes have appeared on the landscape. These constitute the MeerKAT telescope, a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), which…

A new book on South African liberation struggle icons Nelson and Winnie Mandela is a masterful biography of the pair. It’s a work of scholarship involving an immense body of primary and secondary research, written with flair and panache but in an easy and compelling style, making it accessible to…

The suspension of two judges in South Africa for tardiness – failing to process cases in a reasonable amount of time – has sparked fierce debates around the conditions under which judges work. There are implications for the administration of justice in a young democracy.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa has been awarded South Africa’s 2023 FNB Art Prize. He becomes the first artist using documentary photography as his primary medium to win the prestigious competition.

The Rugby World Cup’s closest thing to a group of death features Scotland facing a huge task pitched alongside Ireland and South Africa

The death toll from a fire that engulfed a five-storey building in central Johannesburg on Thursday has risen to at least 73, the South African city's emergency services said.

Building in central Marshalltown neighbourhood was being used as ‘informal’ housing for some 200 homeless people