Nelson Mandela's call to heroism as building and peace echoes his life. Born Rolihlahla Mandela, his journey shaped by tradition and educat...

Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University secure top spots in the 2025-2026 Best Global Universiti...

Last month, a “compromise outcome” to contain and treat Covid-19 had proposed a waiver for developing countries that exported less than 10%...

The newest variant was discovered just over a week ago by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, and it's now been found in multiple coun...

Earlier, Oxford University scientists have confirmed in a separate study that their ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine has shown efficacy ...

Johannesburg, Sep 13 (IANS) Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known abstract pencil drawing by human hand -- which looks like a pres...

Three years later, with the sensex in kissing distance of closing above the 30,000 mark, Joshi has been named Deutsche Bank's group treasur...

Johannesburg, Feb 1 (IANS) The presence of minerals that are as old as three billion years in Mauritius points to the existence of a "lost ...

The experiment was repeated last year and this year, after a two-and-a-half year shut-down of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, said...

The oldest previously demonstrated possible hominin tumour was found in the rib of a Neanderthal and dated to around 120,000 years old.

While the diamonds of this study were found in 3 billion-year-old sedimentary rocks, diamond formation occurred much deeper.

Francis Thackeray, from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, said that he was "very interested in the possibility" of exami...

Academicians from around the world who converged here to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa.

Zone Startups would also invest itself in close to a dozen companies that it incubates, the statement said, adding the ticket size would va...

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius didn’t suffer from a mental defect when he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day.

An Indian American professor of biological and agricultural engineering has been recognised for his pioneering work in hydrology.

Tata Africa has provided 40 scholarships worth 50,000 rand each to post-graduate students of four South African universities.