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Keely Hodgkinson breaks the long-standing women’s indoor 800m world record set by Slovenia’s Jolanda Ceplak on the day the Briton was born in 2002.

Hull Kingston Rovers withstand a fierce comeback from Brisbane Broncos to win the World Club Challenge.

A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

A gardener was shot earlier in Hyde Park, north of Johannesburg and is in critical condition

Preliminary investigations indicate that the bus lost control along a curvy mountain pass.

The two men have been charged with attempted murder.

Justice Madlanga pointed out the contradiction in Sibiya’s statement.

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches – and how to avoid them – in the spotlight.

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Max Colchester about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the new details that have emerged in the Epstein files.

The International Paralympic Committee decided to allow six Russian and four Belarusian athletes to compete under their national flags in Italy. The decision has caused an outcry in Ukraine.

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sky and Amanda Roberts, family members of the late Virginia Giuffre, now that the former Prince Andrew has been arrested by police in the U.K.

The corridor is strategically significant given that Zambia, Angola and the DRC are home to some of the world’s most significant deposits of critical minerals

The gunmen launched simultaneous assaults on multiple communities in a remote border district, officials say.

Bellarmine Mugabe is in custody after he allegedly shot a security guard at a property in Johannesburg.

Officers in Kano search cafes and restaurants every year during Ramadan looking for Muslims breaking the fast.

The US bought more goods than it sold in 2025 as the White House attempts to reverse the flow.

Sources close to the company insist that its difficulties stem entirely from “the Mandelson legacy”.

Despite the gazetted reforms aimed at strengthening the industry, they do not address the imports that contributed to the liquidation of a 134-year-old South African company.

Rand Water has been granted an urgent licence to extract more water from the Vaal to help supply Gauteng.

Ramaphosa insists that success within the GNU must be owned collectively rather than politicised.

The president has pushed back against MPs claims’ that the successes outlined in his State of the Nation address should be credited to coalition partners

MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission

Megan Keller scores in overtime to clinch Winter Olympic gold for the United States in a last-gasp 2-1 win over great rivals Canada.

Team GB will go for gold after beating Switzerland 8-5 to reach the final of the men’s curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Paris St-Germain are showing interest in Erling Haaland, several European clubs want Bernardo Silva and Carlo Ancelotti intends to extend his stay as Brazil boss.

Duhan van der Merwe’s try-scoring X-factor makes him perfectly suited to return to the Scotland XV against Wales on Saturday, writes Tom English.

Children to get individual support directly from school instead of via council in attempt to curb spiralling costs

Children in England with special needs will receive individual support and therapy directly from their schools as part of the government’s overhaul of England’s special education provision.

Under the plans, mainstream schools will be given commissioning budgets to spend on...

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has backed plans to build an N2 wall after another highway incident, this time outside Khayelitsha…

Notorious TikToker Maryke Erasmus – who Gayton McKenzie once threatened to sue for defamation – share her latest theory on Joslin Smith.

Minnie Dlamini and her friends immersed themselves in all things Galentine’s as they celebrated their friendship in Cape Town.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been under fire due to his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

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The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC police officer.

Motorists in South Africa are spending considerably less on petrol than they were a few months ago.

SANRAL will raise fees across all its toll plazas in South Africa next month.

The cheapest Toyota Corolla Cross costs more than R400,000 in South Africa.

Around 1,000 operations a week rely on the product as patients are warned delays are inevitable.

The decision, on the case of a child who sustained a brain injury at birth in 2015, could have significant cost implications for the NHS.