A crime prevention expert says that for a more effective crimefighting strategy, more detectives, forensic scientists, data and tracking analysts are needed – and a strong anti-corruption stance ...

A new report has found the average population sizes of more than 5,000 wildlife species have declined by 73% over 50 years, suggesting the world is approaching irreversible planetary tipping points ...

For teachers and medical professionals, the private sectors beckon as havens, together with much better pay. They could also add to the brain drain, but they mostly don’t. Instead, they endure reading ...

With shares falling and profits shrinking, Tesla Inc. is increasingly looking like the odd one out among its mega-cap technology peers. Investors worry that quarterly results will make the ...

Over the years, as a South African financial journalist, you are inevitably required to write about the gold price now and then. And the reason is simple — once upon a time, South Africa was gold.

Independent Media initially withdrew from the Press Council in 2016 and rejoined the council in January this year.

The arrest of alleged diamond scam mastermind Louis Liebenberg in connection with the alleged duping of investors out of R4-billion is the culmination of a five-year investigation by the Hawks.

BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, sees the recent rally in South African assets as a tactical opportunity, though talk of economic reforms need to be translated into concrete measures ...

Let’s cook a hunk of pork belly for three hours, two of them at a moderate heat, and another half hour at each end at a stomping 240°C. And let’s season it with Chinese five-spice.

Living in a pollution-free environment is a fundamental right, India's Supreme Court said on Wednesday as it urged authorities to address deteriorating air quality in the north of the country.

A severe E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Corp.’s Quarter Pounders sickened dozens of people in the US, mainly in Colorado and Nebraska, and killed one, the US Centers for Disease Control and ...