South African students are flocking to Europe to study medicine, but many plan to return home following their studies.

Severe weather conditions have forced the temporary closure of dozens of schools in the Western Cape.

Standard Bank’s Smart ID rollout has reached a milestone of 50 branches, making it the second-most prolific bank in the partnership with Home Affairs, after Capitec.

Airlines have removed nearly two million seats from flights over the month, data from Cirium shows.

Bram Fischer Shopping Centre in Johannesburg is going under the hammer next week, offering investors potentially R15 million in income per year.

Codehesion is South Africa’s leading software development company and has built an industry-wide reputation for excellence and innovation.

Here are five important things happening in and affecting South Africa on Wednesday, 6 May 2026.

The Brent branch of Little Village says there is “a lot of need” in the local area.

Codehesion boasts advanced AI and a development team pulled from the top 3% of South African software engineers.

Hereford Cathedral says it will provide operational support to help the “incredible volunteers”.

South Africa’s new vehicle market achieved its strongest performance in April in 13 years.

Workers in southern Scotland can find themselves paying more tax than colleagues who live south of the border.

India Lerigo makes her own dog food and batch cooks a month’s worth of meals over a weekend to save money.

Under the changed system customers collect points rather than reward coupons, with £1 spent equalling one point.

There have been extra jitters in UK government debt markets ahead of Thursday’s local and national elections.