SUNDAY, 18 JANUARY 2026, 21:15
Top Stories
As the mop-up starts, Lowveld communities pulled together during the worst floods to hit Kruger and surrounds since January 2012. Meanwhile, day visitors can return to southern Kruger on Monday.
Top Stories
A conversation about weak controls and good scientists, but the danger of losing faith in their science.
Top Stories
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) – The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government’s deportation drive, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
Top Stories
South African Police Service detectives have their sights set on three known suspects in the wake of a mass shooting that claimed the lives of eight people at a shebeen in Marikana, Philippi East, on Saturday, 17 January. The suspects remain at large.
South Africa
The victim was swept away while attempting to cross the flooded Mutale River in Thoyandou Limpopo.
South Africa
Ramathuba has welcomed the classification of the floods as a national disaster.
South Africa
Police and the emergency services personnel are still searching for two missing boys.
South Africa
Mngwevu and three other people went missing in Chokwe, Mozambique.
World
The US president threatens to impose tariffs on countries that oppose his plans to take over the territory.
World
Syria’s new leaders, since toppling Bashar Assad in December 2024, have struggled to assert their full authority over the war-torn country.
World
Parts of the huge plaza in Karachi have collapsed as firefighters battle to extinguish the blaze.
World
The Kurdish-led SDF militia withdrew from the Omar oil field amid an eastward push by government forces.
Africa
Yoweri Museveni has won a record seventh term in elections after promising that the fledgling oil sector will boost the economy.
Africa
President Yoweri Museveni wins a seventh term, as his main rival Bobi Wine decries “fake results”.
Africa
President Yoweri Museveni is in a commanding lead ahead of his main challenger, pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
Africa
Abubakar Abdullahi sheltered 262 people after they came under attack from Fulani herders in 2018.
Business
Business
South African passport holders are facing a tougher global travel environment in 2026, with reduced visa-free access and growing barriers when applying for visas to some of the world’s most popular destinations.
Business
With WhatsApp extensively used across South Africa, users are urged to exercise caution when dealing with sensitive information.
Business
Trump’s volatile trade policy has thrown the world economy into chaos, and put some US prices up.
Politics
George, who was also the DA’s federal finance chair, publicly revealed Steenhuisen’s money issues.
Politics
Malema is set to learn his fate on Friday in the East London Magistrate’s Court as sentencing looms.
Politics
ActionSA claims that the same suspect laid a false charge of assault against Khumalo
Politics
Mbeki reminds veterans of their role in liberating South Africa .
Sport
New Zealand clinch their first one-day international series win in India with a 41-run victory in the deciding third match.
Sport
Harlequins stun La Rochelle to claim a place and home advantage in the last 16 of the Champions Cup.
Sport
Impressive teenager Edoardo Todaro scores a first-half hat-trick to help seal Northampton Saints a home last-16 tie in the Investec Champions Cup and eliminate Scarlets.
Sport
Women’s FA Cup fourth‑round victory over fourth-tier London Bees finally offer Liverpool a moment of light in a campaign that has felt extremely bleak.
Education
The United States is broken, but not in every way.
Education
Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, appointed new board members at three state schools, hours after she was sworn in as Virginia’s first female governor.
Education
Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.
Education
A federal prosecutor apologized this week, saying an ICE officer made a “mistake” in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras.
Lifestyle
Cassper Nyovest has seemingly unfollowed his wife Pulane Phoolo, who has now struck up a friendship with his ex, Thobeka Majozi…
Lifestyle
COSATU has voiced strong support for Transport Minister Barbara Creecy’s call to amend legislation governing drunken driving.
Lifestyle
There is ‘no immediate concern’ and no need for water restrictions in Cape Town this summer, confirms city official …
Lifestyle
The mother of Reeva Steenkamp – who was murdered by Oscar Pistorius – has shown positive progress after a devastating diagnosis last year.
Entertainment
The signing “marks a practical step toward strengthening football development in Southern Africa.”
Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories this Sunday, 18 January 2026, in our daily news update.
Entertainment
Persistent heavy rains have caused severe floods, which have damaged homes and infrastructure in Limpopo.
Entertainment
Former champions the Sunrisers beat the title holders by seven wickets with one ball to spare in their last round-robin match of the season.
Science/Tech
Errors in measuring microplastic pollution can be corrected. Public trust in science also needs to be shored up
It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be a messy process. The Guardian reported last week that 20 recent studies measuring the amount of micro- and nanoplastics in the human...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study [published in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment last month]. The research sheds new light on a puzzle that has endured for over half a century...
Science/Tech
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Acer has filed three separate patent infringement lawsuits against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, taking the unusual step of hauling the nation’s largest wireless carriers into federal court. The suits, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, claim the companies are using Acer-developed cellular networking technology without paying for the privilege. Acer says...
Science/Tech
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Futurism:China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity. The futuristic-looking machine, called CHIEF1900, was constructed at China’s Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) at Zheijang University...
Motoring
The recently concluded festive season was South Africa’s least deadly in years.
Motoring
A Chinese vacuum cleaner company unveiled its very own supercar at CES 2026.
Motoring
With back-to-school in full swing, parents have been told to ensure safe commutes.
Motoring
Chery is gearing up to launch a new car brand in South Africa.
Health
Two regulatory rollbacks, along with a new A.I. experiment in Medicare, raise some worrisome questions.
Health
The review looked at more than three dozen studies and found no evidence that acetaminophen increased the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
Health
Complex podcast host and chartered psychologist Kimberley Wilson joins What’s Up Docs? to talk about how we think about willpower.
Health
Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.