Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian is a weekly newspaper based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and published by M&G Media. It specializes in political insights, in-depth investigative journalism, news from Southern Africa, as well as coverage of local arts, music, and cultural trends.

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Wildlife surprise: Elusive forest shrew found in Western Cape

1 day ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

One of the Western Cape’s most mysterious mammals, the Boosmansbos long-tailed forest shrew, has made a reappearance 46 years after it was last recorded. Conservationists from CapeNature, Grootvadersbosch Conservancy and Helihack, together with volunteer biologists, were “ecstatic” at finding one of these tiny mammals on the edge of a pristine forest patch in CapeNature’s Boosmansbos Wilderness Area, CapeNature said.
Tiger Brands offers first settlement in deadly listeriosis outbreak case

2 days ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

South Africa’s largest food producer, Tiger Brands, has agreed to settle claims from certain groups in the listeriosis class-action lawsuit, seven years after the country experienced the world’s deadliest listeriosis outbreak.
Female & Guardian | SA’s loos not flushed with success

3 days ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

Every day, South Africa’s coastal cities discharge roughly 300 million litres of wastewater into the sea. For Teboho Mofokeng, a water engineering lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town researching water management and reuse, this is a lost opportunity. She said that amount of water is enough to provide about 1.5 million to two million people with drinking water every day “and that is just from us flushing our toilets into the sea.
Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’

4 days ago | mg.co.za | Umamah Bakharia

A report submitted to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that South Africa is failing to uphold women’s rights to land and housing, despite constitutional protections and international legal commitments.
Mass vulture poisoning in Kruger triggers historic wildlife-rescue operation

5 days ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

At least 123 vultures have died in the Kruger National Park after ingesting the carcass of an elephant that poachers had laced with poison. A joint team of South African National Parks (SANParks) rangers and officials from the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) rescued 84 vultures in one of the most successful vulture rescues ever recorded. The incident marked one of the largest mass poisoning events ever witnessed in the Kruger.
SA risks losing tech dominance as Morocco positions itself as Africa’s AI powerhouse

6 days ago | mg.co.za | Umamah Bakharia

South Africa, once considered a continental leader in science, technology and innovation, has found itself at a crossroads in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its globally recognised research institutions and thriving tech start-up scene in cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg, the country has yet to implement a coordinated national AI policy or roadmap.
Court case challenges SA’s approval of offshore drilling by TotalEnergies

6 days ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

A judicial review heard in the Western Cape high court this week has questioned the environmental authorisation process for TotalEnergies’ offshore oil and gas exploration rights between Cape Town and Cape Agulhas.
New equity targets are constitutional, counsel for labour minister tells court

1 week ago | mg.co.za | Des Erasmus

Fana Nalana SC on Tuesday told the Pretoria high court it was not unconstitutional for the minister of employment and labour to set numerical redress targets for companies. Appearing for Minister Nomakhosazana Meth, Nalana sought to counter an argument from counsel for the Democratic Alliance (DA) that section 15A of the recently gazetted Employment Equity Amendment Act amounted to unfair discrimination.
Unions slam basic education department over no maths at 464 schools

1 week ago | mg.co.za | Umamah Bakharia

Teacher unions have called out the department of basic education for failing to hire maths teachers after it emerged that 464 schools in the country no longer offer maths as a subject. “There needs to be a serious talk about how the department handles its human resources department, because we have universities that are graduating students, but how many of these teachers care about the needs of learners at the schools?” said the South African Democratic Teachers Union’s (Sadtu) Mugwena Maluleka.
Covid and crackdowns slash ivory and pangolin scale trade

1 week ago | mg.co.za | Sheree Bega

There has been a “remarkable and sustained disruption” in the trafficking of pangolin scales and ivory from Africa to Asia since the Covid-19 pandemic. A new report from the Hague-based Wildlife Justice Commission documents a sharp decline in significant seizures since 2020, pointing to a shift in the criminal landscape and the potential long-term impact of targeted law-enforcement efforts.