We’re calling it now: in 2025 the electric hot hatch has arrived. Leaps and bounds in battery and motor technology mean there are now several cars that we’d class as hot hatchbacks on the EV ...

The word was first introduced into South Africa by English-speaking immigrants from India, according to the OED, "but it made its way into South African English via Afrikaans". It is related to ...

When the new MG 4 EV was revealed last week, the logical assumption was that this was a replacement for the current MG 4 EV.

On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns. Credit ...

South Sudan is teetering on the brink of a return to full-scale civil war as violence escalates and political tensions deepen, the head of the UN Mission in the country (UNMISS) warned on Monday.

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war lasted ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

In the latest Africa Youth Survey, conducted by a South African charity in 2024, Ivory Coast was the only country where a majority said it was easy to find a job. At $2,900 a year, GDP per person ...

Even billionaire Elon Musk’s Neuralink, with its pioneering brain computer interfaces (BCIs) which bypass damaged nerves by linking them directly to external devices like robotic limbs, works on ...

Where will the Giant Evil Hot Hatch Death Ray strike next? It’s already blasted the Ford Fiesta and Focus ST to smithereens, blown up the Hyundai i20N and i30N, and vapourised the Skoda Fabia ...

Until now, the most African teams who have been present in a single edition of the tournament was six in 2010, when hosts South Africa were added to the five regular qualifiers. For 2026 ...