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Shaw hat-trick heroics ‘like watching video game’
Khadija Shaw’s performance against Tottenham was “like watching a video game”, says team-mate Sam Coffey after more hat-trick heroics.
SATURDAY, 21 MARCH 2026, 19:01

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Khadija Shaw’s performance against Tottenham was “like watching a video game”, says team-mate Sam Coffey after more hat-trick heroics.

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Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Sunday, 22 March 2026.

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The company’s brewery and 11 bars were bought by US firm Tilray for £33m after it went into administration.

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The DA in the Eastern Cape on Saturday unveiled local councillor Luvuyo Sizani as its mayoral candidate for the Makana municipality in the local government elections expected to be held later this year.

South Africa
The R81 road outside Polokwane has been temporarily closed for traffic after an accident.

South Africa
CONTRALESA says Human Rights Day celebration must not be used by politicians to make empty promises

South Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for an inclusive society.

South Africa
SANCO says poverty and unemployment are preventing many people from enjoying a decent life

World
In the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Nowruz celebrations — honoring the arrival of spring — are a fundamental expression of Kurdish identity.

World
The Department of Defense had required reporters to agree to certain rules on what information they could gather in order to maintain access to the Pentagon.

World
More than 230 people have been rescued so far, the authorities said on Friday.
World
The British Parliament still has 92 unelected lawmakers who inherit seats by bloodline. They’re all older white men. A new law now phases them out, for the first time in nearly 1,000 years.

Africa
Saadia Mosbah campaigned for migrants, particularly after President Kais Saied said they posed a demographic threat to the country.

Africa
Aid groups and MPs have raised concerns over the move to prioritise defence spending over aid.

Africa
The deal came as part of the president’s state visit to the UK – the first by a west African leader in 37 years.

Africa
President Idris Mahamat Déby orders the military to be on high alert and retaliate against further attacks.

Business
The building that housed the former “Staatsmuseum” (State Museum) stands empty in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria.

Business
A decade of subdued growth, infrastructure deterioration, and chronically high unemployment has trapped the province in a cycle of underperformance.

Business
The treasury secretary says the move will quickly bring about 140m barrels of oil to global markets.

Business
Mary Vilakazi, who financed her education through scholarships and a bursary, rose from a township to lead one of Africa’s largest financial institutions by market cap—FirstRand Group.

Politics
The DA is concerned about the water crisis facing residents of Makana Municipality.

Politics
The ANC led the People’s March in what it calls Defence of Sovereignty of South Africa.

Politics
Malema was delivering a keynote address at the party’s Voter Registration Campaign at Ghandi Square

Politics
Minister McKenzie praises the GNU efforts to unify the country.

Sport
Tadej Pogacar continues his glittering career by winning his first Milan-San Remo title after a thrilling battle with Britain’s Tom Pidcock.

Sport
Brighton and Hove Albion manager Fabian Hurzeler speaks about Danny Welbeck’s “remarkable season” for Brighton after his performance in their 2-1 win over Liverpool.

Sport
Liverpool boss Arne Slot says injuries and lack of options in his squad is one of the reasons they are “struggling” following their 2-1 defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion, with injury to Hugo Ekitike adding to the absences of Mohamed Salah and Alexander Isak.

Sport
Carlos Alcaraz beats Joao Fonseca in the Men’s singles at the Miami Open, and celebrates with a golf swing in front on the spectating Rory McIllroy.

Education
Those planning for uni in England and Wales this autumn can apply for student loans from Monday. Here are the options for families worried about debt
Our child is heading to university soon – should we try to pay their tuition fees upfront so they are not saddled with a debt for decades?
Our child is a recent graduate and their student loan debt is ballooning – should we help pay off some or...
Education
Agronomists at Washington State University are unveiling a new apple, the Sunflare, which they say tastes as good as their Cosmic Crisp but can withstand unpredictable weather.
Education
As they sought to respond to charges of antisemitism and harassment on campus, administrators and trustees made promises. Many have been kept, but not all.

Education
How infections linked to a nightclub escalated into a public health incident requiring a national response is a puzzle experts are still grappling with
Tyra Skinner had already been violently sick three times when doctors at Kent’s William Harvey hospital realised something was badly wrong. The 20-year-old was rushed into critical care, racked with a pounding headache, a stiff neck and...

Lifestyle
Nigerian pastor John Anosike claims he has already paid a 15% deposit on the Good Hope Centre after his R135 million bid last month.

Lifestyle
Certified foodie Nick Hamman lands a scrumptious book deal with an esteemed publishing company, scheduled to hit the shelves in late 2026.

Lifestyle
US singer Doja Cat – the daughter of actor Dumisani Dlamini – was moved to tears by the crowd in her first-ever South African concert.

Lifestyle
Thapelo Mokoena says intimate scenes are part of the job as actors.

Entertainment
Funds from the Free State Department of Human Settlements were found to have been used in the buying of the properties and the car.

Entertainment
With a solid foundation and clear road ahead, Saladino is poised to fly the flag for not only women in the sport but SA itself in the future.

Entertainment
‘There is always pressure at Liverpool, on me, on the players – that is completely normal,’ Liverpool head coach Arne Slot told TNT Sport.

Entertainment
Pikitup’s Randburg, Roodeport and Waterval depots have been hardest hit.
Science/Tech
A free built-in VPN is coming to Firefox on Tuesday, Mozilla announced this week:Free VPNs can sometimes mean sketchy arrangements that end up compromising your privacy, but ours is built from our data principles and commitment to be the world’s most trusted browser. It routes your browser traffic through a proxy to hide your IP address and location while you browse, giving you stronger privacy...
Science/Tech
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
Science/Tech
“The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb in response to the age verification laws of California, Colorado, and Brazil,” reports the blog It’s FOSS. They note that the field “can only be set by administrators, not by users themselves” — it’s the same record that already holds metadata like realName, emailAddress, and...
Science/Tech
Jeff Bezos “is in early talks to raise $100 billion,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and seek to use AI technology to accelerate their path to automation.” “The Amazon.com founder is meeting with some of the world’s largest asset managers to raise funding for the project.”A few months ago, [Bezos] traveled to the Middle East to discuss...

Motoring
The local e-hailing service Wanatu wants to expand its target customer base to include more non-Afrikaans speakers.

Motoring
Claiming from your insurer may become an arduous process, but it doesn’t have to be.

Motoring
The cars South Africans buy and the cars South Africans want make for two very different lists.

Motoring
Sedans are not as popular in South Africa as they once were, except in one segment.
Health
His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.

Health
BBC Health reporter Smitha Mundasad answers your questions on meningitis B

Health
The outbreak, which has killed two people, is thought to have originated at a Canterbury nightclub.

Health
UK scientists have grown fully functioning food pipes and successfully transplanted them into mini pigs, paving the way for human trials.