While more than a dozen South Africans linked to the MK Party and duped into joining Russian forces fighting in Ukraine have been brought home safely, at least two other wounded men, conned in unrelat...

There’s tentative hope for the repatriation of young South African men sold to fight for Russia in the Ukraine war following direct talks between President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Vladimir Putin...

Once hailed as the ‘Crown Prince of the Kruger’, former regional ranger Rodney Landela has taken the stand insisting he was framed for the killing of a white rhino in July 2016. As the State marshals ...

The Game Rangers Association of Africa is calling on governments, funders and conservation groups to lend more support to wildlife rangers across the continent following an increasing number of attack...

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Se ha identificado la presencia de cárteles mexicanos en Nigeria, Mozambique, Kenia y Sudáfrica, donde trafican principalmente metanfetamina, aliados con redes locales

Government prioritises tourism infrastructure over displaced families, writes Lindiwe Mazibuko

Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phones

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Terrified into co-operation by outside threats, a surprisingly solid bloc is emerging

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In conservation circles, he was practically royalty. Tipped to assume the khaki mantle of head ranger at the Kruger National Park, its one-time “crown prince” Rodney Landela returns to court on Wednes...

Hawks led a major global law enforcement raid on multiple syndicate premises in Bryanston and Joburg's northern suburbs

Unchecked shadow economy drains revenue, destroys jobs and entrenches organised crime

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Virgin Active has suspended contracted Cape Town personal trainer Stan Stamenov, who was working at its gym in the upmarket suburb of Constantia. Stamenov’s name also came up when Krasimir Kamenov, al

Residents of a mining village near Carltonville are pleading for government’s intevention to rid their area of illegal miners who seized an abandoned school seven years ago and turned it into no go zo...

In 2023, there were almost 1.2 million children in Grade 10. But two years later, when the class of 2025’s results were released, there were only 779 000 who sat for their matric exams. What happened ...

A young South African’s Harvard PhD thesis exposes how South Africa’s post-apartheid school system has recreated educational segregation, with fee-paying schools secretly prioritising white students, ...

A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

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Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia are highly sophisticated, industrial-scale enterprises that pressgang unsuspecting job seekers into servitude in shockingly exploitative conditions where they f...

Alice Coltrane reinvented her adoptive Hinduism by interweaving it with the music of the Black church.

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits annually into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be White South Africans, a dramatic drop after the United States previo...

Conservationists seeking to restore elephant populations in a Malawian national park inadvertently upended human lives, revealing the risks of large-mammal translocations.

Chinese criminals are recruiting Malawian orphans into the ivory trade

Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault

Millions of animals are slaughtered each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine — a trade that’s devastating many African communities.

South Africa’s organised crime economy endures because a grey layer of professional enablers quietly provide the logistical and operational lifeblood that keeps criminal organisations nimble and resil...

South Africa is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, with three globally recognized biodiversity hotspots and exceptionally high levels of endemism. However, this natural heritage is under th...

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Behind the facade of South Africa lies a brutal shadow-world ruled by mafias, cartels and crime syndicates locked in a ruthless war over the country’s riches. Mafia Land is the hair-raising tale of 12...

John chats to Julian Rademeyer, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime on the case against the Mexicans who were detained during a raid on a Mpumalanga crystal meth lab being postpone...

South Africa has seen a disturbing pattern of assassinations of whistleblowers, witnesses, prosecutors, councillors, auditors, police and activists who confront the nexus between organised crime, corr...

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

Hidden in boxes of fresh flowers, AK-47s and pistols are making their way from Namibia into the hands of Western Cape gang members – contributing to violence amid a growing death toll from gang-relate...

One company has a military drone factory and the government has started an investigation.

The State alleges that Hume, in association with his five alleged co-conspirators, knew or ought to have known that their enterprise ‘uses or invests, directly or indirectly (Hume’s) rhino horns, othe...

The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and targets Trump’s enemies.

Sharif was killed when Israel targeted a tent used by media in northern Gaza, alongside six others, Al Jazeera said.