South Africa captain Temba Bavuma downplayed his coach's "grovel" comment, stating it wasn't a distraction for the team.

Today’s struggle is for AI sovereignty: the right of a people to own their data, build their models, and determine how intelligence — the true engine of modern power — is created, applied, and ...

Yet in the U.S. and many other nations, social trust is far from ubiquitous. While a majority of U.S. adults (55%) say most people can be trusted, a sizable share (44%) say most people can’t be ...

Safaris come with high prices and even higher expectations, and more travelers want to know what their money supports beyond ...

Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United ...

In the Luo tribe of East Africa, widows follow a unique tradition of sleeping beside their husband’s dead body. The ritual ...

In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that ...

While global economics can sometimes seem boring, at its core lies the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita. This figure ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at ...

Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to ...

Kenya, Nepal, Tajikistan. They say they were deceived by Russia into joining a war they did not want to fight.

ON NOVEMBER 16, 1860, a British ship named the Truro sailed into Durban harbour, carrying 342 passengers from India, men, women, and children leaving behind hardship and hunger. Ten days later, ...