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The land under South Africa steadily rose between 2012 and 2020, a new GPS-based study finds, and drought may be the main ...
Speaking to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Tuesday, Mantashe said the proposed line, which is critical to South Africa’s ...
Tech giant Google has today announced the launch of a cloud region in South Africa, its first in the continent, playing catch-up to other top providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft ...
Southern Africa is among the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Climate-related impacts such as droughts, floods and tropical cyclones undermine development and reduce the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational, coming a year after the tech giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa. Cloud regions allow users to deploy cloud ...
The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude ... the bulk of SAMIDRC troops come from South Africa, which is estimated to have sent at least 1,000 soldiers. South Africa lost ...
Months of drought in Southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in ...
The 35-year-old local councillor from South Africa's governing African National ... more than 20 councillors have been killed in the region - it brings the number of elected representatives ...
About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc SADC said on Saturday. The drought ...
Thirty years after the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to a country experiencing increasing political violence in a key region to see what happened to ...