U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday defeated a Democratic resolution calling for a review of human rights in El Salvador, focusing on conditions at a maximum-security prison holding people deported ...

For years, clogged ports, crippled freight corridors and an ailing rail network have choked the economy. Now, the state is opening up the door for private sector participation with one hand still on ...

The tradition of Ukrainian aerospace continues. Driven today less by prestige than necessity, it has become a global leader in ‘kopters’ – as drones are locally known.

This lesson could help the industry,’ Cybersmart cofounder and CTO Laurie Fialkov told Daily Maverick in a candid interview as the national outage dust settles.

China is moving deeper into the soft power void opening up on the world stage. Trump is an unwitting ally. The more mercurial his behaviour, the more China seems the adult in the room.

No fossilised pangolin tracks had been recorded anywhere in the world until a track was found in South Africa, dated to between 90,000 and 140,000 years ago.

South Africa made massive progress in reducing transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies. Even so, about 7,000 babies still contract the virus every year. Experts put this down to having the ...

Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health problems like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes rise too, ...

South Africa’s crisis is not just a crisis of stagnation, which breeds inequality. For more than a decade, we’ve grown at an average of just 1% per year. That is a slow collapse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a second-tier team of aides and deputy ministers to hold peace talks with Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday, spurning Kyiv's challenge to go there in person to meet ...

At which, somebody at the table will be muttering about how they just can’t stomach rare meat. This one is for the rest of us.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Qatar will invest $10 billion in coming years in the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of the country's capital Doha, the largest U.S. military facility in ...