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Tunisian journalists rally near the government's office, holding signs to protest press restrictions, call for greater freedom, demand the release of their jailed colleagues, and vow that the widening crackdown will not silence them, in Tunis, Tunisia, 20 November 2025. Source: Reuters/Jihed Abidellaoui

Media Freedom

Tunisian reporters take to the streets to oppose crackdowns

Tarek Amara 21 Nov 2025

Source: Supplied. Muhammad Ali, managing director at WWISE.

Construction & Engineering

How South Africa's construction mafia hijacked projects worth R63bn

29 May 2025

Could De Beers be the next Twitter?

Markets & Investment

Could De Beers be the next Twitter?

Savious-Parker Kwinika 21 Nov 2024

Discovery Health says Road Accident Fund in breach of court order

Automotive

Discovery Health says Road Accident Fund in breach of court order

Tania Broughton 21 Jun 2024

Media Freedom

2 Tunisian journalists jailed pending trial, bolstering fears for free speech

Tunisian newsroom 16 May 2024

Media Freedom

South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity

Prinola Govenden 6 May 2024

Media Freedom

Ethiopian police arrest French journalist, employer says

Giulia Paravicini 26 Feb 2024

File photo: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius leaves court after appearing for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, 14 June 2016. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/Files

Criminal Law

UPDATED: Pistorius granted parole

Bhargav Acharya 24 Nov 2023

Criminal Law

NPA under pressure to bring Lottery looters to court

Raymond Joseph 25 Oct 2023

Advertising

Iraqi man arrested for broadcasting pornography on major advertising screen

22 Aug 2023

Public Health

Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think - who's behind it and how it could be controlled

Frederike Ambagtsheer 13 Jul 2023

Media

Al Jazeera journalist freed from pretrial detention in Egypt

Farah Saafan, Nick Macfie 2 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

Legal

Oscar Pistorius denied parole a decade after killing girlfriend

3 Apr 2023

FILE PHOTO: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius leaves court after appearing for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, 14 June 2016. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/Files

Criminal Law

Oscar Pistorius seeks parole

Wendell Roelf, Anait Miridzhanian and Siyabonga Sishi 31 Mar 2023

Media

Reporters from independent Egyptian news outlet referred to trial

Aidan Lewis, Marguerita Choy 1 Mar 2023

Lebo Madiba unpacks the trends that will help businesses, including creative businesses, persevere through a difficult year

ESG

#BizTrends2023: Embracing chaos, unpredictability, and complexity in 2023

Lebo Madiba 30 Jan 2023

Media

John Williams Ntwali, Rwandan journalist critical of government has died

23 Jan 2023

Media Freedom

Journalist imprisonments highest recorded in years

15 Dec 2022

Unlocking the power of hyper-personalisation to build more relevant banks

Banking

Unlocking the power of hyper-personalisation to build more relevant banks

Issued by Semaphore Communications 11 Aug 2022

Image: A participant holds a rainbow flag during the WorldPride in Copenhagen, Denmark 21 August 2021. Olafur Steinar Gestsson/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters

Family Law

Namibian court rules against gay couples seeking legal recognition

Nyasha Francis Nyaungwa and Emma Rumney 27 Jan 2022

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Media Freedom

Stand News arrests raise press freedom concerns

30 Dec 2021

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Retailers

Massmart headline earning worse than 2020

24 Dec 2021

Former South African president Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters at his home in Nkandla, South Africa, 4 July 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward/File Photo

Criminal Law

Judge dismisses Zuma's attempt to remove prosecutor

Alexander Winning 27 Oct 2021

Zuma seeks to replace prosecutor in arms trial

Criminal Law

Zuma seeks to replace prosecutor in arms trial

22 Sep 2021

Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters after appearing at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, May 17, 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward/File Photo

Criminal Law

High court pushes back Zuma corruption hearing

Alexander Winning 10 Sep 2021

Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to supporters after appearing at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 17 May 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward/File Photo

Criminal Law

Zuma released on medical parole

Nqobile Dludla 6 Sep 2021

Research

Absa PMI rebounds in August after steep fall on July riots

Alexander Winning 2 Sep 2021

High court postpones Zuma corruption trial to next month

Criminal Law

High court postpones Zuma corruption trial to next month

Wendell Roelf 10 Aug 2021

Authorities probe coastal chemical spill in Durban following unrest

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Authorities probe coastal chemical spill in Durban following unrest

Siyabonga Sishi and Rogan Ward 19 Jul 2021

Former president Jacob Zuma, who faces fraud and corruption charges, speaks to supporters after appearing at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 17 May 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward/File Photo

Criminal Law

Zuma hands himself over to police to begin sentence

Siyabonga Sishi 8 Jul 2021

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma, who is facing fraud and corruption charges, greets supporters in the gallery of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, May 17, 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward

Criminal Law

Arms deal graft trial against Zuma adjourned to 26 May

Wendell Roelf & Mfuneko Toyana, 18 May 2021

Minister warns Grade 12 learners against exam violations

Primary & Secondary Education

Minister warns Grade 12 learners against exam violations

18 Nov 2020

Case law suggests South Africa must do more about disrupted schooling

Primary & Secondary Education

Case law suggests South Africa must do more about disrupted schooling

Mariëtte Reyneke 7 Oct 2020

Effective healthcare in SA faces new set of obstacles

Medical Law

Effective healthcare in SA faces new set of obstacles

Merlita Kennedy, Victoria Campos and Jared Ishmael 3 Aug 2020

Police officers detain Sahara Reporters journalist Victor Ogungbenro during a protest in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Staff at the online newspaper report sustained harassment targeting them and their website. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Media Freedom

US-Nigeria website censored

12 Dec 2019

Fighting breaks out as security personnel attempt to re-arrest Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 6, 2019. Sowore and other activist-journalists have been jailed in Nigeria and Ethiopia amid a crackdown on free expression. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde.

Media Freedom

Nigeria and Ethiopia jail activist-journalists amid crackdown on free expression

Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen 11 Dec 2019

Journalist Nazli Ilicak is embraced after her release from prison in Istanbul in November 2019, after a court ordered her free on time served at a retrial. Two of her colleagues remain in prison on terrorism related charges, among the 47 journalists jailed in Turkey. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Huseyin Aldemir.

Media Freedom

The world's worst jailers of journalists

Elana Beiser 11 Dec 2019

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Media Freedom

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Elana Beiser 12 Nov 2019

Accounting & Auditing

Why highly qualified and experienced directors are more at risk of being declared delinquents

Rehana Cassim 1 Nov 2019

Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in January by the military, who seized 24 computers. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Media Freedom

Nigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with "forensic search" for sources

Jonathan Rozen 30 Oct 2019

Mahlatse Mahlase delivering her speech at the Sanef Black Wednesday Dinner. Image credit: Sanef.

Media Freedom

#BlackWednesday: Sanef chair Mahlatse Mahlase calls on journos to continue to fight for media freedom

21 Oct 2019

Egypt arrests 3 more journalists amid crackdown

Media Freedom

Egypt arrests 3 more journalists amid crackdown

2 Oct 2019

A police officer is seen in N'Djamena, Chad, on July 11, 2015. A N'Djamena court recently charged two Chadian journalists with criminal defamation and sentenced one to jail. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Moumine Ngarmbassa.

Media Freedom

Journalists fined, one jailed over criminal defamation complaint in Chad

26 Sep 2019

Freelance journalist Erick Kabendera, who is detained in Tanzania. Credit: CPJ/Jamii Forums.

Media Freedom

Tanzania switches track, charges Kabendera with economic crimes

7 Aug 2019

Robben Island joins list of 20 new protected marine sites in South Africa

Responsible Tourism

Robben Island joins list of 20 new protected marine sites in South Africa

Alison Kock 27 Jun 2019

CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

Media Freedom

CPJ joins call for UN to scrutinise human rights situation in Eritrea

14 Jun 2019

Prison guards are seen at Somaliland's Hargeisa prison on March 29, 2011. Television reporter Abdirahman Keyse Mohamed was recently arrested by police in Somaliland and is being held without charge in a prison in Las Anod. Credit: CPJ/AP/Katharine Houreld)

Media Freedom

Somaliland journalist injured during arrest, jailed without charge

22 May 2019