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South Africans Abroad: Abrahams fires Beveren to promotion
Kurt Abrahams will play in the Belgian top flight next season following the promotion of SV Beveren this past weekend.
MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2026, 18:35

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Kurt Abrahams will play in the Belgian top flight next season following the promotion of SV Beveren this past weekend.

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Monyane will come up against his former side Pirates when the Soweto giants collide in the league at FNB Stadium on Saturday
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A jury hears children were preyed upon by Malcolm Phillips and his assistant for more than 20 years.

South Africa
Premier Panyaza Lesufi is expected to highlight plans to tackle illegal dumping.

South Africa
Latakgomo passed away on Sunday and had a media career that spanned more than five decades.

South Africa
The miners have been stuck underground since last Tuesday.

South Africa
The miners have been stuck underground since last Tuesday.
World
The Mexican army announced that it had killed powerful drug lord Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera in an operation that sparked a wave of violence in various parts of the country.

World
The event occurs only in February, when the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park at just the right angle.

World
As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.

World
Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity during a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.

Africa
A Chadian government spokesperson says the decision is aimed at protecting citizens.

Africa
Bellarmine Mugabe and one other man have not commented on the charges after a 23-year-old was shot.

Africa
Sudan accuses Uganda of flouting international law by meeting Rapid Support Forces boss Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Africa
A court upholds a challenge about the lawfulness of the orders to remove four men who travelled to the territory.

Business
Skukuza Airport in Kruger National Park has been named the most beautiful airport in the world by Forbes.

Business
Mr Price has received regulatory approvals to acquire NKD amidst large pushback from investors.

Business
The rand is “treading water” around R16 to the dollar at the moment, as global uncertainty has markets in a ‘wait-and-see’ mode, and tensions in the Middle East push traders into gold.
Business

Politics
The president is expected to respond to the MPs’ questions regarding oversight and reporting on a task team on political killings before conclusion of the committee’s inquiry in March

Politics
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi delivers the State of the Province Address (SOPA) at Nasrec.

Politics
Some Johannesburg residents are hoping to hear how Lesufi intends to deal with unemployment, water

Politics
Mogotsi had initially preferred to appear virtually, citing safety concerns.

Sport
Team GB’s athletes have arrived home from the Winter Olympics after their most successful Games ever. They won five medals, including three golds, to finish 15th in the medal table.

Sport
Watch as West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer hits an 85 after Zimbabwe’s Tashinga Musekiwa dropped him twice.

Sport
With Pakistan’s spinners promising to provide a “tough time”, England’s frequent batting weakness stand between them and a World Cup semi-final.

Sport
Team GB’s Winter Olympians land back in the UK

Education
The government has set out broad changes it will make to the SEND system in England in the coming years.

Education
Ties to the disgraced financier run deep through the academic world, documents released by the DoJ show
Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.
In some cases, professors...

Education
New special educational needs regime to result in far fewer children being given education, health and care plans
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Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary on Monday.
Bridget Phillipson...

Education
Finance campaigner marches on to set and tells Tory leader her policy to cut interest rates will only help top earners
UK politics live – latest updates
Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis.
As the Conservative leader was being...

Lifestyle
A key route in Cape Town is set to return to service, marking another step towards devolution of the rail system for the City to run.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
Thoblie MaKhumalo’s fans speculated whether the man in her new gallery wall includes her father or husband, Musa Mseleku.

Entertainment
Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Entertainment
SAPS launches threat assessment after claims officers released foreign nationals for bribes at Johannesburg police stations.

Entertainment
‘One of the ways to destroy a nation is to destroy its arts and culture,’ says ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba.

Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 24 February 2026.
Science/Tech
Internal Binance investigators traced $1.7 billion that flowed from accounts on the exchange to entities linked to Iran, according to company records and other documents.
Science/Tech
Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem — clouds, which both reflect sunlight and trap heat, account for more than half the variation between climate predictions and are the main reason warming projections for the next 50 years range from 2 to 6 degrees Celsius. Two research groups are now racing to close...
Science/Tech
A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult — whom the researchers call “hasslers” — are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% per additional hassler and about nine months of additional biological age relative to same-age peers. The research drew on DNA methylation-based...

Science/Tech
ASML researchers have found a way to make its critical chip-making machines produce up to 50% more chips.
Motoring
Motoring

Motoring
The South African National Taxi Council plans to overhaul the industry with a new payment system and regular compliance checks on drivers and vehicles.

Motoring
South Africa’s largest retail motor industry trade union has criticized PG Glass and Glassfit following allegations that both companies engaged in price fixing for over two decades.
Health
Horses, with their high-pitched whinnies, seemed to buck the trend of larger animals producing lower sounds, but a new study explains the mechanics behind the noises a horse makes.

Health
Josephina Finch says the surgery left her with a “gaping wound”.

Health
The medicines regulator is suggesting the minimum age limit for trial should be raised to 14.

Health
The company behind the test said there were positive signs that some of the most aggressive cancers could be prevented.