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The appointment of Gauteng local government stalwart Dr Jack Bloom as Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation has triggered a stream of antisemitic, antizionist, and anti-white comments on social...
South Africa shed 80 000 jobs in the first three months of 2026, with the largest losses concentrated in community services and trade. Amid anti-immigrant rhetoric across the country,...
The attack by former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen on Tony Leon, executive chairperson of Resolve Communications, has highlighted the vast differences between the business of public relations, political lobbying,...
When the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to review and potentially reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, it deepened the fears that South...
Late in the evening on 24 June, as Venezuelan Jews gathered with family, returned from synagogue, or settled in at home, the ground beneath them began to shake. Within...
As Israel marks 50 years since the Entebbe rescue, newly declassified government documents have shed fresh light on one of the most daring hostage rescue missions...
Veteran Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature Jack Bloom says he sees a potential move into national government as a continuation of his life’s work in public...
Avi Kay, the father of South African-born Israeli Eli Kay, who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 2021, has shared his family’s journey from devastating...
For some people attending this year’s Aliyah Expo, the biggest question was how to transfer a pension. For others, it was whether their professional qualifications would be recognised in Israel. Some wanted...
For years Jesse Clegg kept his father’s music at arm’s length. The son of the late Johnny Clegg built his own career as a singer-songwriter, determined to...
A year after Israeli runners were harassed along the Comrades Marathon route, Jewish athletes returned to South Africa’s most prestigious ultramarathon in force, completing the gruelling...
A group of ordinary South Africans says it has reached a breaking point. Concerned by what they see as rising harassment, intimidation, and discrimination in public...
South African faith leaders expected a summit on antisemitism. Few expected their first lesson to begin on the airport tarmac. Minutes after landing at Ben Gurion...
South African medical graduates are some of the best in the world, but hundreds of them cannot find work. This generation of young South African doctors has done everything required of them. They spent years...
More than 80 years after her death, Anne Frank remains one of the most recognised voices of the Holocaust. Yet many people know only part of her story....
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has achieved a milestone that places it at the forefront of higher education on the continent and in the top 1% of universities worldwide. ...
A man living in a township is carried into a welfare office because he is blind and unable to walk. A family of five squeezes into...
For two decades, Rabbi Greg Alexander has been one of the most recognisable faces of Progressive Judaism in Cape Town. He has stood beside congregants during...
British fitness coach and endurance athlete Yoel Levy was all but consumed by fear as he prepared to run the Cape Town Marathon. Levy, known to his 267 000 Instagram followers...
The unemployment crisis is no longer a distant national statistic for Jewish families. It is now being felt in homes, schools, and communal spaces across the country. ...
Endless swiping, ghosting, and awkward small talk have left many Jewish singles exhausted. They are increasingly turning away from dating apps and searching for something more human. They...
Melanie Phillips says Jews must stop “playing defence” and become proactive in fighting antisemitism. When Phillips, a British journalist, author, and commentator, travelled through Jewish communities in Britain, Australia, and the United States...
A Jewish mother at an under-12 netball game heard another parent allegedly shout that Jews “should all be eradicated”. A rabbi is being asked by his congregants whether they should...
The dreams of more than 100 South African Jewish teenagers have been dashed by the decision to pull them out of the 2026 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Maccabi...
In the days after 7 October, many Jewish women turned to the feminist spaces they had long trusted to support them and to stand against the mass rapes...
South African yacht captain Brett Sussman won the Voyagers Award at the World Superyacht Awards on 1 and 2 May after completing a global journey that lasted three and...
When a stabbing attack unfolded on Golders Green Road last week, panic spread quickly through one of London’s best-known Jewish neighbourhoods. Police sealed off parts of the...
Students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are concealing their Jewish identity and reporting experiences of exclusion and hostility on campus. That was one of the stark realities Professor...
A diagnosis changed everything for Greg and Martine Nafte. It also set them on a path that could determine far more than their own son’s future. Levi has an exceptionally rare...
Unemployment isn’t just a statistic. It’s a daily reality for millions of people searching for work and finding none. In the final quarter of 2025, the official unemployment rate stood at...
There is a moment in every war when the battlefield shifts. For Paul Hirschson, that battlefield is no longer defined by tanks or borders, but by timelines,...
An Israel-hating pastor confronted Helen Zille about the Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) supposed stance on Gaza, at a DA campaign event in Johannesburg recently. Nigel Branken challenged the mayoral contender in front of a packed audience at...
A father describing his children running to shelters, a soldier’s final act of bravery, and a toddler shaped by war formed the heart of the Yom Hazikaron ceremony in Cape Town...
The call between oleh Kenny Struwig and the SA Jewish Report begins like any other interview. A greeting, a check on the sound, a polite apology. Then, in the background, a low...
South Africa has quietly passed one of the most far-reaching reforms of its democratic era, shifting power away from politicians and into the hands of administrators...
Karen Tolman’s mother and grandmother were on the very last ship of Holocaust-surviving Jews allowed into South Africa in 1938. They were onboard the Duilio, which docked in...
Human trafficking isn’t confined to distant borders or shadowy international networks. It’s happening in South African cities, harbours, and in communities where most people would least expect it. Children are...
When his name was called at the Eat Out Woolworths Restaurant Awards, Aren Pollack didn’t move. He stayed seated, unsure if he had heard correctly, until those around...
As the Democratic Alliance (DA) prepares to elect new leadership at its Federal Congress this weekend, on 11 and 12 April, candidate Nicholas Nyati has positioned himself as one of...
Business leader Nathan “Natie” Kirsh, 94, has concluded one of the largest international transactions involving a South African. He sold his United States (US) food empire, Jetro Restaurant...
