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BOF’s decision carries an explicit social and economic dimension.

BOF targets JSE listing to anchor growth in emerging tech, capital markets

BOF Investments is pursuing a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange to solidify its presence in Africa’s leading financial market and access a deep pool of institutional capital

April 22, 2025
Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool (right) with then-US President Joe Biden at a statue of Nelson Mandela outside the South African embassy in Washington DC. Photo: AFP

US expels South African ambassador, saying he 'hates' Trump

Ebrahim Rasool accused of having linked Trump administration to white supremacy

March 15, 2025| AFP
Pretoria native Elon Musk lambasted amplified conspiracy theories claiming - without evidence - that whites are being singled out for persecution. Photo AFP

Trump threats to South Africa rattle automakers

BMW, Ford, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen operate in South Africa

February 13, 2025| AFP
South African writer and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach receiving the 2017 Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award at a ceremony in Warsaw. Photo: Euzebiusz Niemiec/AFP

Breyten Breytenbach, writer and artist who challenged apartheid, dies at 85

He published around 50 books during his lifetime, including 'The True Confession of an Albino Terrorist'

November 25, 2024| AFP
South African musician David Scott, aka ‘The Kiffness’. Photo: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP

‘Please don’t eat my cat’: Trump parody song goes viral

'Eating the cats' is a parody song by The Kiffness

September 26, 2024| AFP
South African President and President of the African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his remarks after the official announcement of the South African general election results.

ANC loses outright majority in South Africa vote 

Former president Jacob Zuma intends to challenge the result

June 2, 2024| AFP
Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) officials empty a ballot box during the vote counting process at Addington Primary School voting station.

ANC on track to lose majority after watershed South Africa vote 

The party may need a coalition partner to govern

May 30, 2024| AFP
Political election posters attached to polls in city centre in March 2019. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Watch: MK: Mandela's Secret Army (ARTE)

Founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre

May 6, 2024| ARTE
A Cape Independence Party (CapeXit) volunteer hands out flyers and campaigning material. Photo: AFP

CapeXit? Separatists bid to split South Africa

Bid bound to remain a pipedream

March 19, 2024| AFP
Esther Mahlangu poses during an interview ahead of the influential Ndebele artist’s major new retrospective opening at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. Photos: Marco Longari/AFP

Cape Town hosts retrospective of iconic S. African artist Esther Mahlangu

Her first big international break came in 1989, when she was 54

February 20, 2024| AFP
Nelson Mandela. Photo: Shutterstock

Mandela auction suspended over S.Africa heritage concerns 

The artifacts on offer included clothing, writings and gifts Mandela received from US presidents including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

January 30, 2024| AFP
A Democratic Alliance (DA) party's supporters holds a placard reading "Jacob Zuma must go" during a march against South African president Jacob Zuma on April 7, 2017 in Johannesburg. Photo: AFP

South Africa's ANC suspends former president Jacob Zuma

Zuma criticised the ANC and set up a breakaway group

January 29, 2024| AFP
Lawyer for South Africa Adila Hassim said Israel's bombing campaign aimed at the "destruction of Palestinian life" and had pushed Palestinians "to the brink of famine". Photo: AFP

Malta 'following with attention' genocide case against Israel

'We are also extremely concerned about events on the ground in Gaza'- government spokesperson

January 17, 2024| Daniel Ellul
People raise flags and placards as they gather around a statue of late South African president Nelson Mandela to celebrate a landmark "genocide" case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Photo: AFP

South Africa accuses Israel of breaching Genocide Convention

Israel describes the case as 'preposterous'

January 11, 2024| AFP
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on January 5, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (2nd R) inspecting an important military vehicle production plant with his daughter. Photo: AFP

China calls for 'restraint' from all parties after North Korea shelling

N Korea fired artillery shells at S Korean islands. S Korea reiterated with live-fire artillery drills

January 5, 2024| AFP
This picture taken on November 4, 2012 during the Feather Awards held at Melrose Arch in Johannesburg shows South Africa's Olympic sprint star Oscar Pistorius and his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Photo: AFP

Pistorius released from prison on parole, 11 years after shooting partner dead

Runner had shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world

January 5, 2024| AFP
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing, at a railway station in Seoul on January 5, 2024. Photo: AFP

North Korea fires over 200 artillery shells near South Korean islands: Seoul

One of the most serious military escalations since 2010

January 5, 2024| AFP
A child holds a plate while sitting among rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Photo: AFP

South Africa takes on Israel

Israel has rejected South Africa’s charges as ‘baseless’, calling them ‘blood libel’

January 4, 2024| Ranier Fsadni
A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke from Israeli bombardment covering the skyline of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Photo: AFP

South Africa files ICJ case accusing Israel of 'genocidal acts' in Gaza 

The court application claims that Israel has been acting to 'destroy' Palestinians in Gaza

December 29, 2023| AFP
Pistorius pictured during his 2016 trial. Photo: AFP

Oscar Pistorius granted parole over girlfriend's murder

Former Olympian fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013

November 24, 2023| AFP
Dr Stefano Corso, a dermatologist, went missing after briefly stepping outside a conference to answer a phone call. Photo: Facebook

South African police rule out abduction of Maltese doctor

29-year-old dermatologist found safe and unharmed with no physical injuries

October 14, 2023| Matthew Xuereb
File photo: Times of Malta

Today's front pages – October 13, 2023

The top stories in Malta's newspapers

October 13, 2023| Times of Malta
Left: the last image Stefano Corso uploaded from Cape Town before his disappearance.

Maltese doctor who went missing in Cape Town is found

Doctor had walked out of a medical seminar on Wednesday

October 12, 2023| Matthew Xuereb
Firefighters work at the scene of the fire in Johannesburg.

73 die in South Africa inferno, including seven children

Many were trapped by a locked security gate

August 31, 2023| AFP
Brazil's president Lula da Silva is given a guard of honour by soldiers of the South African National Defence Force ahead of a BRICS summit. Photo: AFP

BRICS faces rift over a push to accept members into the club

Many countries are interested in joining the bloc. But its members are divided

August 22, 2023| AFP
Fishing limitations around penguin colonies will be in place for the next ten years. Photo: AFP

South Africa enacts fishing ban to protect endangered penguins

The critically endangered African penguin risks being wiped out by 2035

August 4, 2023| AFP
A general view of a damaged road in Johannesburg on July 20, 2023, following an unexplained explosion which occurred during rush hour on July 19. Photo: AFP

Watch: One dead, 48 injured in unexplained Johannesburg blast

The explosion blew a hole in the road and gouged out cracks

July 21, 2023| AFP
Roger Ballen's work at the ‘End of the Game’ exhibition at the Inside Out Centre for the Arts in Johannesburg. Photos: Wikus De Wet/AFP

South Africa art show highlights destructive ties between Man and Nature

This has been a recurring theme in photographer Roger Ballen’s career

March 23, 2023| AFP
Earlier this month, another tiger had escaped from an exotic farm near Johannesburg. File photo: Shutterstock

Tiger on the loose prompts calls for stricter wild animals rules in Johannesburg

Another one escaped last week

January 30, 2023| AFP
AFP file photo.

Gunmen kill eight at birthday party in S.Africa: police

The unknown gunmen randomly fired at guests

January 30, 2023| AFP