BirdLife South Africa, the local chapter of BirdLife International, has announced the Cape parrot as its Bird of the Year for 2023. The Cape parrot, or Poicephalus robustus for the sciency folk ...

South Africa has seen a significant decline in murders since the start of 2025, with the Northern Cape the only province to see an increase in its murder rate. The latest crime stats from the ...

Windy conditions are expected over the north-western interior of the Northern Cape, according to the South African Weather Service. It will be fine across the country, with cool to cold conditions ...

Tensions flared in South Africa's Eastern Cape province after deadly revenge attacks left three foreign nationals dead. The violence erupted following the alleged murder of a local man during a ...

It is alleged that the members were towing a Samil 50 truck which experienced a burst tyre, causing both vehicles to overturn enroute to the SA Army Combat Training Centre in the Northern Cape on ...

The Redstone CSP project is the first Tower Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) plant using molten salt technology in Northern Cape, South Africa. Launched in 2021, the project, owned by ACWA ...

The lie of a ‘genocide’ against white farmers in South Africa took centre stage when presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump met on 21 May. The fact is that there is no ‘white genocide’ in South ...

On March 7, 2025, Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who owns the space aeronautics company SpaceX and the social media platform X, claimed in a post that Starlink, the satellite ...

The four-minute video played on a large screen showed South Africa's firebrand far-left opposition lawmaker Julius Malema singing "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" -- an infamous chant dating back ...

As South Africa’s energy system becomes increasingly digitised, the country’s electricity sector has become a high-value and vulnerable target for cyberattacks. Protecting South Africa’s ...

The City of Cape Town's Disaster Risk Management Centre ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily from ...

Correction: There were 26,232 murders in South Africa last year, according to South African Police Service (SAPS) figures. A previous version of this story contained incorrect information.