Prof Mignon McCulloch delivered the second inaugural lecture of the year at UCT last week, focusing on kidney diseases in Africa and beyond.

Royal Nairobi Golf Club's elite amateur, John Lejirma, shot a round of 67 on round three of the Sunshine Development Tour - ...

South Africa is facing an escalating ecological crisis – a tiny invasive beetle from Vietnam is killing off trees in urban and natural forests. More than 7,000 trees have been affected by the ...

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) announced on Tuesday that 166 ships have shifted their routes to transit through the Egyptian waterway instead of the Cape of Good Hope since February, reinforcing the ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

She covers human rights and climate-related stories across Africa and Europe. She's trudged through abandoned mines, dived in ...

A surprise meeting between Mozambican President Daniel Chapo and his main political rival, Venâncio Mondlane, took place on Sunday night, 23 March, in Maputo. Discreetly facilitated by unnamed civil ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress ... seeking solutions and finding reasons for credible hope. A deeper view that unites instead of divides ...