EThekwini Municipality Mayor Cyril Xaba has commended the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) for accelerating projects aimed at enhancing passenger rail services in the city. Xaba, Members of the Executive Committee (EXCO), and PRASA’s...
As a design researcher working in urban graphic heritage, I explore how everyday graphic objects communicate in public spaces. I have started to think of the city as a kind of living, dispersed archive. It is not an archive that replaces formal...
When people hear the term “green building”, they often imagine expensive technologies, costly developments or environmentally friendly features that only wealthy buyers can afford. But green buildings do not have to be luxury log homes surrounded...
South Africa welcomed 10.5 million international tourists in 2025, surpassing pre-pandemic tourism levels, while Cape Town alone attracted 1.44 million foreign overnight visitors, who generated approximately R19 billion in direct foreign tourism...
Young farmers in the Eastern Cape are set to benefit from improved irrigation infrastructure, which will enable them to extend their growing season, increase production and create employment opportunities. This follows a multimillion rand...
Abraham Moreo lives on a street flooded with raw sewage. The leak has been going on for so long in Letsopa in Ottosdal in the North West, that the sewage has carved out a riverbed. Now the provincial government is taking steps against the failing...
Every October over Transport Month, Engen rolls out free voluntary health screenings for truck drivers across South Africa. This annual initiative reaffirms its commitment to the health, safety, and well-being of the country’s transport heroes....
South Africa used its G20 Presidency to put clean cooking on the international agenda, launching a Legacy Programme to expand access across households, schools and communities and co-authoring an investment action plan with the International Energy...
As South Africa debates whether to legislate against late payment, Lulapay’s Vice President, Jordan Gosling, talks about how the need for suppliers to extend their terms to their own customers has turned them into involuntary lenders. As South...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has received 51 474 applications within the first four days of the opening of the 2027 application cycle. The early application figures demonstrate the continued importance of NSFAS in enabling...
