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Property sector expected medium-density guide in early 2024, but progress has stalled

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said three oil tankers exploded and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, as Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Israel’s mission agai...

Oh boy, I wonder who that could be.

More than a decade after Cosatu first proposed a ‘Lula Moment’ for South Africa, the lessons of Brazil’s developmental shift remain urgent as the nation grapples with economic stagnation and political paralysis.

Two days before Johannesburg residents go to the polls, outgoing mayor Dada Morero declared the long-delayed Lilian Ngoyi Street rehabilitation project delivered and said he was ending his term “on a good note” – although work on the street is not yet finished.

The panel will visit the tribal panchayat and submit a detailed report within a month

Thirty years into democracy, South Africa’s Constitution remains both a landmark achievement and a measure of what has yet to change. Mbali Ntuli, Mbekezeli Benjamin and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh agreed that its promises remained unfulfilled, but differed on where the main failure lay: unequal economic power, weak implementation, or the design of the constitutional

The Gulf states find themselves at the centre of a regional war that is not of their making . A confrontation that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran has spread into a web of proxy conflicts, reaching from the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea and Bab Al Mandeb, through Iraq and Yemen. The members of the GCC now face a question they can no longer put of

<p>Data released under freedom of information laws reveals hundreds of projects unfinished despite Tory promises on regional equality</p><p><strong>• </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/24/can-new-scheme-help-revive-grimsby-britain-struggling-town-centres">Can a £5.8bn scheme help revive Grimsby and other town centres?</a></p><p>Mo