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Imagine the ingredients used to make dishwashing liquid, bleach, fabric softener and bath foam being poured into a single 250-litre barrel, decanted into recycled containers with colourant, perfume and additional water added to mimic well-known brands.

ANC claims DA billboard breaches electoral laws, demands removal

WesBank has successfully leveraged partnerships with Chinese car brands and FNB’s client base to grow high-quality advances and strengthen its market position in South Africa.

The case has been postponed at the request of the defence and for further investigation.

Committee members say the minister is continously absent from their meetings.

Health professionals have been cautioned to observe their ethical obligations.

Iran fired missiles toward Israel Friday, Israeli officials said, after Israel launched fresh strikes on Tehran and hit Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight.

President Trump hasn’t spelled out how he wants the Iran war to end. But ending the military campaign too early could mean losing leverage over what comes next.

An elementary school in southern Iran was one of the first sites hit when the U.S. and Israel launched their attacks against Iran. More than 170 students and staff were killed. Who’s responsible?

Israeli airstrikes hit the capitals of Iran and Lebanon Friday, as Iran launched new retaliatory attacks in the Middle East.

The group had said it would choose a new leader with the same title as Sarah Mullally, the first female head of the Church.

The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is postponed just 12 days before the finals were due to kick off in Morocco.

Ethiopia unveils its first unmanned, ‘smart’ police station where citizens can report crimes on automated touch screens.

The M23, which controls the coltan-rich area, has not commented and the death toll is hard to verify.

The BBC’s Nick Marsh examines how unrest in the Middle East will impact living costs around the world.

The rand has weakened sharply against the US dollar over the past week. Economists and analysts have laid out where they expect things to go from here.

BusinessTech is the biggest South African business news website according to the IAB statistics for February 2026.

The DA says the name changes were implemented without proper consultations with residents.

Lekota family awaits Presidency decision on funeral category

The Commission is hearing an application from Sulliman Carrim for his evidence to be held in camera

The Congress of the People co-founder was lauded for his principled positions ‘even in the face of criticism and humiliation’ and for being outspoken against corruption

England’s Ellie Kildunne and Sadia Kabeya are stuck in Dubai after taking a short break during the Premiership Women’s Rugby’s reserve week.

“These changes will allow us to better protect all players as they return after their off-season break,” says the Rugby Players’ Association.

Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx capped off a memorable 2025 season when he won the prestigious SA Rugby Men’s Player of the Year Award.

Rangers manager Danny Rohl says Sunday’s game with Celtic is a “great opportunity to make a good step towards” winning a trophy.

Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College

It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s...

‘I’m not sleeping with your women’, Nigerian pastor John Anosike said in a rant about the backlash to his R135m Good Hope Centre bid.

Athlete and Olympic Gold medalist Caster Semenya is bringing more than athleticism to the competition – she is all heart and head, as well as fun.

The SDG confirmed on Friday that Mahlathi had voluntarily stepped down from his responsibilities while the legal process unfolds.

The EFF and the DA have described a decision by the Western Cape High Court on VAT as just.

A TikTok furniture deal turned into a costly lesson. Here’s how a deposit scam left me blocked and sleeping on the floor.

Carrim claimed that the Madlanga commission would ‘gamble’ with his life because of its ‘kill rate’

When an ambulance takes hours to arrive, or indeed never arrives at all, the consequences can quite literally be deadly. Recent reporting from across South Africa paints a stark picture: ambulance response times stretching from two to 24 hours in urban and peri-urban areas, and from six to 48 hours in townships and rural communities. […]

Laptop docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I’ve been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.

New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick.

Support for 13 African languages aims to make AI-powered search more accessible to millions of African users.

The Automobile Association argues that every car sold in South Africa should offer the same level of standard safety features.

When South Africans are buying a new car, they visit TopAuto.

Multiple experts have warned that petrol prices could skyrocket to over R28 per litre in South Africa next month.

Ami Clarke shares her experience of living with endometriosis.

A woman arrives back in Plymouth in time to begin her chemotherapy treatment.

Health Connections is to renovate six floors of its new base as spaces for people to come together.