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Chalamet and partner Kylie Jenner are among the stars attending the star-studded ceremony in London.
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Chalamet and partner Kylie Jenner are among the stars attending the star-studded ceremony in London.

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Residents of the Sporong informal settlement in Randfontein are living in fear due to violence from illegal miners, despite a heavy police presence. Many have relocated or are sleeping elsewhere for safety, while some families have been allocated new homes, with the hope of further government intervention and the deployment of soldiers to ensure their security.
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In a world where a handful of leaders shape AI’s impact on billions, the urgent need for public consent and oversight has never been clearer. Democracy must adapt or risk obsolescence.
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Mergers and acquisitions are back in focus, with companies like Grindrod and MTN leading the charge. But will ambitious deals unlock true value or lead to pitfalls?

South Africa
A study by the institution found that 23 sanitary pad brands contained at least two such chemicals.

South Africa
A truck crashed on a mountainous section of the highway near the Hendrik Verwoerd tunnel.

South Africa
The residents lamented this ahead of Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget Speech on Wednesday.

South Africa
SAWS says a cut off low pressure system is expected to move into the area on Sunday and Monday.
World
Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny after Varvarych lost both his legs during the Russian invasion.

World
Iran’s state news agency said students protested at five universities in the capital, Tehran, and one in the city of Mashhad on Sunday.

World
The remains of Italy’s patron saint have only been seen in public once before – for one day in 1978.

World
Greenland’s PM reminded Trump of its free healthcare, after Trump said he was sending a boat to aid people who were allegedly “not being taken care of”.

Africa
Sudan accuses Uganda of flouting international law by meeting Rapid Support Forces boss Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Africa
A court upholds a challenge about the lawfulness of the orders to remove four men who travelled to the territory.

Africa
In a rare occurence, three soldiers were handed jail terms for killings in the troubled Anglophone region.

Africa
Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Business
Businesses say questions remain after US President Donald Trump announced he will impose global tariffs of 15%.

Business
One of South Africa’s best-performing private schools has officially closed its doors.

Business
South Africa’s citrus industry achieved a record-breaking 2025 export season, shipping over 200 million 15kg cartons worldwide.

Business
Citizens Advice’s Warm and Well scheme in North Yorkshire will receive the money over three years.

Politics
Dlamini was gunned down in Umgababa south of Durban on Saturday night.

Politics
Ramaphosa delivered the eulogy at the funeral service of Hosi Phylia N’wamitwa II in Limpopo.

Politics
Kenny Kunene has criticised Helen Zille and Herman Mashaba’s mayoral capabilities

Politics
The Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga says he wants to hear solutions at this year’s SOPA

Sport
Donegal remain clear at the top of Division One with victory over Armagh, while Cavan, Down and Antrim score wins but Monaghan, Tyrone and Fermanagh suffer defeat.

Sport
South Africa recover from 20-3 to beat hosts India by 76 runs in their opening game of the Super 8s at the T20 World Cup.

Sport
Andy Birkett became the first person in the 75-year history of the Dusi Canoe Marathon to win the men’s race 16 times.

Sport
South Africa ended India’s 12-match winning streak at the T20 World Cup with a crushing victory in their opening Group 1 Super Eights match.

Education
Labour expected to outline sweeping changes to special educational needs provision with council debt surging
Labour is due to reveal its plans to overhaul the special educational needs and disability (Send) system on Monday. But why are changes needed? And what changes are ministers likely to propose?
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Education
Already struggling to get help, families with children with special needs are concerned changes could make things worse
At the age of 12, May Race’s son Joseph spends almost all of his time in his bedroom, too anxious, burnt out and – she says – traumatised even to join his parents and older brother downstairs most days. Joseph no longer leaves the house at all.
He is autistic and has dyslexia...

Education
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
• This week’s question: what would happen to the world if computer said yes?
I’ve always thought it would be good to acquire an old warehouse in every town throughout the land and convert it into low-rent community...

Education
Education secretary suggests Labour’s priority is maintenance grants for poorer students rather than cutting interest
Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would scrap the “unfair debt trap” of high interest rates on student loans, piling pressure on Labour ministers to tackle the growing outrage over the high costs.
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, admitted the system of plan...

Lifestyle
Ten days before his aircraft crashed, Durban pilot Leeché Manuel shared a post that many believe was a foreshadow of his tragic death…

Lifestyle
Discover the habits making you poor. Learn how behaviour and systems drain your money and how to fix them.

Lifestyle
Minister Gayton McKenzie has responded to critics who’ve claimed he has ‘forgotten’ about his vow to find missing Joslin Smith…

Lifestyle
Woolies has begun piloting South Africa’s first self-service checkout tills. Are local shoppers ready to embrace retail automation?

Entertainment
A total of R400 000 in jackpots is up for grabs tonight! Here are your winning Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results for 22 February 2026.

Entertainment
“It was tough going, we managed to win the arm-wrestle, and the team managed to find the energy to break through the Italians and take the bonus point at the end of the match.”

Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories of Sunday, 22 February 2026 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.

Entertainment
Sune Luus was the star of the show, while Sinalo Jafta put in a superb performance in her landmark game to help the Proteas beat Pakistan.
Science/Tech
Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you actually move in.” Now imagine it’s far more than just one apartment complex…At two other Jack London Square apartment buildings, my initial...
Science/Tech
Friday Amazon published a blog post “to address the inaccuracies” in a Financial Times report that the company’s own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December. Amazon writes that the “brief” and “extremely limited” service interruption “was the result of user error — specifically misconfigured access controls — not AI as the story claims.” And “The Financial Times’ claim...
Science/Tech
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same...

Science/Tech
Africa Analysis MD Andre Wills says MTN’s R35-billion tower buyback is a one-off, not a trend reversal.
Motoring

Motoring
South Africa’s cheapest automatic car won’t cost you more than R200,000.

Motoring
Nissan welcomes Chinese automakers’ push into various countries, saying the competition will only make the industry stronger and benefit the car-buying public.

Motoring
Car theft protection has evolved beyond physical barriers and mechanisms.
Health
The next moon mission, carrying four astronauts, could launch as soon as early March.

Health
The doctors speak to Professor of Immunology, Dan Davis.
Health
A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.

Health
Manjit Sangha, from Penn, near Wolverhampton, says her life drastically change in one weekend.