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Potholes and water outages often begin with bad planning. A town planner explains seven ways South Africans can push municipalities to do better.
Diabetes is manageable. With timely support, people can lead long, healthy lives free from preventable complications.
New research in the Kruger National Park has found that rising CO₂ in the atmosphere helps savanna grasses grow when less water is available.
If fossil fuel companies misled the public about the dangers of their products, should they be required to pay for damages from climate-related disasters?
Cybercrime is getting increasingly sophisticated, and scammers target senior citizens.
For the Youth Olympic Games, Senegal has relied heavily on substantial direct public funding with support from its partners.
The super El Niño could cause 31,400 extra heat deaths in Nigeria alone. Heat warnings, cooling centres and worker protections could help save lives.
Mutual suspicion and prejudice continue to undermine relations between South Africans and African immigrants.
Green ratings are growing in South Africa, mainly for upgraded older buildings, but some low scores suggest buildings may appear greener than they are.
South Africa’s minibus taxi industry contains extensive knowledge, organisation and social practices developed by the people who work in and depend on it.
No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
Sunny Adé is celebrated as the King of Jùjú music.
Teenage pregnancy makes visible the pressures, relationships and reproductive conditions that shape young people’s lives across southern Africa.
Residents whose homes cluster along waterways, canals and shorelines have built organised systems for living with climate change.
The African shoreline is now much more valuable to outsiders who want to monitor, contain or outflank the waterway opposite them.
New research shows how Windhoek’s ‘Brown is Beautiful’ approach could use its dry landscape to protect the city from heat, drought and floods.
New GPS tracking on African wild dogs found they could travel long distances to find mates, but more than half did not survive the journey.
Communities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago.
Clear rules are urgently needed to prevent a legal vacuum in South African boardrooms.
Good habits by consumers can stymie scams, but US regulations have fallen behind the technology.
Correcting the mental map of global leaders is an important step in amplifying Africa’s relevance and rights.
Digital platforms offer opportunities for African dance influencers to construct their own visions of what it means to be African.
The amount of undeclared uranium from the DRC’s cobalt mines could – if processed – produce enough material for 600-1,500 nuclear weapons.
Africa has some of the world’s most important geological landscapes, yet they remain under-represented in digital geoheritage research.