The state’s version of human rights is to terrify people into fleeing, herd them to the border under tents pitched in mud, let them cross with only what they can carry – then photograph the water being handed out and the mobile clinics parked nearby as “evidence” of a rights-based approach, write Rebecca Walker and Sharon Ekambaram.

When a president admits his government has failed, but blames immigrants in the same breath, he isn’t being honest – he’s just being political, write Rebecca Walker, Loren Landau and Sharon Ekambaram.

South Africa’s latest immigration white paper was approved just six weeks after public submissions closed. Collective Voices for Health Access combed through 18 of those submissions and found a clear pattern in concerns raised: exclusion, quietly institutionalised through documentation and digital systems increasing barriers in access to healthcare for migrants and South Africans alike.

A ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran was announced an hour before US President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz expired. News24 takes a look at the key moments during the five-week war.

Every morning on Bram Fischer Drive, security guard David Sejobe brought joy to Johannesburg’s hostile roads – whistling, waving, and dancing as commuters smiled and hooted in return. Then a hit-and-run driver killed him as he cycled to work.

South Africa made diplomatic history Friday by expelling Israeli chargé d’affaires Ariel Seidman – the first time a democratic SA government has taken such drastic action against a foreign diplomat. While official reasons cite social media attacks and protocol violations, an international relations expert warns there’s “a lot more happening beneath the surface”, writes Vanessa Banton.

When phones were tied to walls with wires, humans were free; now that we carry computers in our pockets, we’ve become prisoners of the algorithms that decide what we see, think, and believe, writes Vanessa Banton.

In the last edition of Friday Briefing for the year we explore why the CRL commission’s move to set up a committee has sparked a religious freedom controversy and growing concerns that state control over religious practices may be imminent.

The CRL Commission established an independent committee to explore ways to regulate religious practitioners after Parliament rejected its earlier legislative recommendations. Vanessa Banton explores why this has sparked concerns from religious groups about government overreach and threats to religious freedom.

Can SA’s violent crime rate be fixed in the face of fear, politics and a crumbling criminal justice system?