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The number of kidnappings in South Africa has been increasing sharply over the past year
Some districts report Caesarean rates of 40%, which is much higher than the 26% national average for public hospitals.
Almost one in four babies born at public hospitals come into the world via c-section but is it costing some women their lives?
Government departments have spent nearly R65-million in the past year on the salaries of 772 suspended employees.
The 2015 World Happiness Report has been published, and South Africa doesn’t even make it into the the top 10 countries in Africa.
South Africa’s gender wage gap is among the world’s worst, with women earning a third less on average than men.
Oil has driven up the price of office and residential space in the continent’s commercial cities.
Economic growth is slower than expected, government debt is rising. Here’s what the new finance minister plans to do about it.
President Jacob Zuma received more than 140 gifts this past year, including boxes of fruit and Nguni cattle. But money for Nkandla? Mum’s the herd.
There have been 177 permanent and acting directors general in 45 government departments over the past five years.
Who earns how much and what exactly do we spend it on?
A high turnover of government’s senior civil servants has led to poor performance and as much as R44-million a year for them to twiddle their thumbs.
What does the government do with its inconveniently placed DGs? Banish them to the State Information Technology Agency, of course.
The ANC’s diminishing share of the vote in the metropoles, particularly in Gauteng, has inspired a burst of soul-searching in the ruling party.
The DA and new kid on the block, the EFF, have together absorbed almost the same number of votes as Cope has lost in the Northern Cape.
Spoilt ballots in the past two elections have outnumbered the votes garnered by most minority parties.
Research from UJ says there’s been a sharp rise in the number of people killed in service delivery protests in the last decade.
At least two million 18-to-19 year olds will be eligible to vote for the first time and only Twenty-three percent of them have registered.
Khutsong residents say they are at the mercy of gang members who control the streets, high on drugs.
Children are learning from a young age what it takes to be a Chad le Clos or a Natalie du Toit – and their parents are learning too.
