But international investors are unlikely to accept ratings they perceive as lenient
The author’s classic is reimagined through puppetry in a powerful stage adaptation
The highlights of 2021 in Africa
The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it
The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10
Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change
Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became just the third woman in history to win the Nobel Physics Prize
Annan was a career diplomat who is widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief
The Early Learning Resource Unit looks back on 40 years of successful development
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
The singer-songwriter has always stood for a craftsmanship and artistry that make his Nobel deserved and unsurprising.
And the Companions of OR Tambo award for friendly foreigners goes to … the Guptas, of course.
Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel prize for literature for her thousands of oral histories that map the implosion of the Soviet Union.
Not an easy man to have on your side, Günter Grass was a writer who had the gall to spit into the soup of the high and mighty.
Frenchman Jean Tirole has won the economics Nobel for his work on how governments can rein in big businesses, in a field once dominated by the US.
The arrival of such lamps changes the way places are lit, offering longer-lasting and more efficient alternatives to 19th-century incandescent bulbs.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Madiba’s comrades had "spat in his face" with denying the Dalai Lama a visa for the summit that was to honour Mandela.
Writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer (90) has died peacefully in her sleep, according to a family statement.
