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Nedbank Cup: Two chairmen/coaches into the semifinals!
This year’s Nedbank Cup semifinals will feature two chairmen/coaches from both Casric Stars and Milford FC in what will be historic.
SUNDAY, 08 MARCH 2026, 00:00

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This year’s Nedbank Cup semifinals will feature two chairmen/coaches from both Casric Stars and Milford FC in what will be historic.

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Overnight, one Israeli operation saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

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England spiral to another Six Nations defeat which raises far-reaching questions about their direction 18 months out from the Rugby World Cup.

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An Iranian and three dual British-Iranian nationals were arrested on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service.
South Africa
President Ramaphosa honours Rev. Jesse Jackson
President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid a deeply emotional tribute to civil rights leader, Reverend Dr. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr, describing him as a man whose voice carried hope across continents, and whose unwavering solidarity helped sustain South Africa’s struggle against apartheid.
The President was speaking at Rev. Jackson’s homegoing...

South Africa
Mogotsi admitted that several charges have been laid against him, including murder

South Africa
The extent of the damage is unclear at this stage and emergency services are on the scene

South Africa
It has been two weeks since the mud rush that trapped five miners at Ekapa Minerals Joint shaft

World
Four people were killed in Michigan and two died in Oklahoma, officials say, as severe storms swept across parts of the US.

World
Europeans are divided over how to respond to the US/Israel war with Iran. German leaders have been measured, while Spain’s prime minister has been critical of the Trump Administration and of Israel.

World
NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Michael Wahid Hanna of the International Crisis Group about how the spillover of the war between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. into other countries might change regional dynamics.

World
Iranians are streaming across the border with Turkey, fleeing constant bombardment. But some are also going the other way — returning to Iran out of worry for loved ones they can’t otherwise reach.

Africa
Flights in and out of Nairobi Airport have been disrupted while some roads in the capital are submerged.

Africa
Suspected Islamist militants reportedly seized control of a village for two days before being forced out by troops and air strikes.

Africa
Some opted to remain in Iran, even after their government offered to bring them home.

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

Business
Allen Ambor went from being a waiter to founding the first Spur in 1967, and helping it grow it into a JSE-listed empire of over 750 restaurants.

Business
The latest Braai Index shows an upward turn in the price of the basket, meaning pain before the coals in South Africa.

Business
Jumbo Mall is opening in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga, in less than two weeks amid heightened demand for quality retail in secondary cities.

Business
Residents of the Lekwa Local Municipality have faced water challenges since the early 2010s, which have been deemed human rights violations.

Politics
Zille was speaking at the Johannesburg City Hall where she launched her mayoral candidacy manifesto.

Politics
The DA will hold its Federal Congress in Gauteng in April where it will elect new leadership.

Politics
Motsepe told investors that his focus remains entirely on the company’s contribution to the economy.

Politics
COPE leader Mosioua Lekota passed away on Wednesday at a Johannesburg hospital.

Sport
Reigning champion Luke Littler moves into the quarter-finals of the UK Open with a comfortable 10-5 win over Gary Anderson at Minehead.

Sport
Chelsea twice came from behind to scupper 10-man Wrexham’s hopes of a giant-killing in a thrilling FA Cup fifth-round tie.

Sport
Chris Jones and Matt Dawson reflect on an extraordinary day in the Six Nations.

Sport
A pigeon briefly stopped play during Atletico Madrid’s 3-2 win over Real Sociedad – with unflappable defender Jose Gimenez plucking the bird off the pitch and taking it to safety.
Education
Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that more school vouchers would improve public education.
Education
Alberto Carvalho was seen as a catch for the nation’s second largest school district. Then his home and office were raided by the F.B.I.
Education
[Nile Post] Vice President Jessica Alupo has urged universities to integrate the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) into their academic programmes in order to produce graduates equipped with critical thinking and problem-solving skills needed in today’s competitive job market.
Education
[Daily Maverick] Parliamentary suspicion and underlying Afrophobia are putting South Africa’s universities at risk, discouraging international academics and students. This threatens the country’s higher education goals, undermines diversity, and narrows the intellectual horizons of future graduates.

Lifestyle
Pick n Pay CEO Sean Summers has hoped on the McDonald’s CEO ‘burger challenge’ after THAT viral video this week…

Lifestyle
The late Soli Philander shared his dream of what he hoped would become of Cape Town’s Good Hope Centre, which went on auction last month.

Lifestyle
Petty pothole politics? Gayton McKenzie trolled Helen Zille over her age after she mocked the Patriotic Alliance’s ‘incompetency’.

Lifestyle
Evictions at the Bantry Bay caves in Cape Town has sparked strong reactions from the Atlantic Seaboard community.

Entertainment
The game changed complexion when George Dobson was sent off in stoppage time.

Entertainment
Tries from backs Tommy Freeman and Tom Roebuck were not enough for the visitors.

Entertainment
Tonight’s jackpot is R600 000! Here are your winning Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results for 7 March 2026.

Entertainment
R59.5 million in jackpots is up for grabs. Here are your Lotto and Lotto Plus results for 7 March 2026.
Science/Tech
Astronomers have spotted a galaxy they believe is made of 99.9% dark matter, reports CNN — and it’s so faint, it’s almost invisible:CDG-2, which is about 300 million light-years from Earth, appears to be so rich in dark matter that it could belong to a hypothesized subset of low surface brightness galaxies called “dark galaxies,” which are believed to contain few or no stars…. [Post-doctoral...
Science/Tech
“It took Anthropic’s most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess,” reports the Wall Street Journal.The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox’s developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? “What else do you have? Send us more,” said Brian Grinstead, an...
Science/Tech
“Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire,” reports CNN, “erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. “The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing of signals from global positioning satellite systems.”Used by all sides...
Science/Tech
“Seagate says it is now shipping its Mozaic 4+ HAMR-based hard drives at up to 44TB per drive,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “with production deployments already underway at two hyperscale cloud providers. “The company claims the platform is the only heat-assisted magnetic recording [HAMR] implementation currently operating at scale, and it is targeting a path from today’s 4+TB per disk...
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Health
Dr. Vinay Prasad drew criticism for decisions that overrode agency scientists and rejected potential drugs.

Health
It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.
Health
She developed Europe’s biggest emporium of erotic goods and opened a three-story sex museum in Germany.

Health
A health campaigner says women’s relationship to pain is shaped by the way they grow up with it as a part of their lives.