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Kaizer Chiefs will have to either win the league or finish second in order to return to the CAF Champions League, but is this realistic?

In completing the set of centuries across all formats despite T20 World Cup semi-final defeat by India, Jacob Bethell shows why he is integral to England’s future, writes Matthew Henry.

Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Saturday, 7 March 2026.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central driver of today’s digital economy. Behind the impressive breakthroughs in generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and predictive analytics lies an even bigger story: the massive investments being made in AI infrastructure. Cloud hyperscalers, chipmakers, and global tech players are pouring billions into data centres, high-performance...

Kenya’s Ministry of Health plans to integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s community health system to improve service delivery and help frontline health workers make faster, better-informed decisions. The ministry said it will collaborate with Barcelona-based Causal Foundry to deploy AI across three key areas: managing health data, guiding clinical decisions and enhancing...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has directed the National Training Academy to implement a rigorous AI and digitalization-based testing system to ensure impartial assessment, during a meeting with the institution’s Board of Trustees. El-Sisi also instructed the academy to establish strategic regional and global partnerships with prestigious institutions that share its goals. The...

Egypt will introduce programming and artificial intelligence courses to technical school curricula beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, extending a coding and AI initiative already underway at the general secondary level. The expansion builds on a policy launched in the 2025-2026 academic year that added coding and AI instruction to the curriculum for first-year general […]

It is the latest country to curb young people’s access to digital spaces to try and protect them from abuse.

Iran fired missiles toward Israel Friday, Israeli officials said, after Israel launched fresh strikes on Tehran and hit Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight.

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

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

The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is postponed just 12 days before the finals were due to kick off in Morocco.

Ethiopia unveils its first unmanned, ‘smart’ police station where citizens can report crimes on automated touch screens.

The South African Reserve Bank is now expected to keep interest rates on hold this month following Israel and America’s attacks on Iran.

The contraction came as a surprise with payrolls down in nearly every sector.

A drone attack on Azerbaijan has narrowed choices for airlines scrambling to respond to disruption in the Gulf.

Johann Rupert-led Richemonth is selling its UK insurance business in a deal worth R65 billion, which should add to the group’s already massive pile of cash.

Carrim’s lawyer says he received death threats before testifying at the Madlanga Commission Monday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa orders flags at half-mast nationwide until the burial of Mosioua Lekota.

Ramaphosa says had he been aware of the allegations against Khampepe he would not have appointed her

The decison overturns Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s attempt to raise VAT

Jesse Lingard joins Corinthians, but what can the former England and Manchester United midfielder expect in Brazil?

Iran will not take part in the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics, the IPC confirms, as the nation’s solitary athlete scheduled to compete “cannot travel safely to Italy”.

Australia captain Alyssa Healy makes just 13 in the first innings of her final match before retirement but the hosts edge India on day one of the day-night Test in Perth.

Francis Ngannou is a free agent in MMA again – could he return to the UFC or even box again?

A proposed shark net near a new Club Med resort on the North Coast has sparked fierce debate over swimmer safety and threats to marine life.

Read how an adventure to Everest Base Camp might be more attainable than you think, even for a solo woman traveller from South Africa.

Meet Devandra Narismulu, the Executive Chef managing a high-volume kitchen while focusing on culinary mentorship and South African heritage.

‘I’m not sleeping with your women’, Nigerian pastor John Anosike said in a rant about the backlash to his R135m Good Hope Centre bid.

The team from Cape Town will now play in the Currie Cup as the Stormers, as they do in the URC and European competitions.

“The stance is that the coaches understand the responsibility that faces them, they understand the results must come,” Motaung Jnr told Kaizer Chiefs radio.

The accounts secretary created fake beneficiaries and manipulated banking records to conceal large transfers from client trust accounts.

GOOD Party urges Johannesburg mayor to intervene after deadly Westbury shooting that killed two and injured others including a baby.

Berlin (PinionNewswire) — Coyotiv and OpenServ Labs published a research paper introducing BRAID (Bounded Reasoning for Autonomous Inference and Decisions), a framework that replaces free-form AI reasoning with structured logic graphs. The result: up to 99% reasoning accuracy and up to 74x Performance per Dollar (PPD) improvements all validated across three rigorous benchmarks. The core […]

With the recently launched Galaxy S26 series, Samsung unveiled a breakthrough feature that is set to change the way users experience privacy on their phones. Building on decades of display innovation, the AI(artificial intelligence)-powered Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra introduces the mobile industry and world’s first built-in Privacy Display[1] – a revolutionary technology that protects personal […]

Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before, a study has found.

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.

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These were the five biggest stories in South Africa’s transport industry this week.

England’s top doctor says the drugs should be for a minority and more effort is needed to prevent obesity in the first place.

Do you know the important difference between open and closed AI?

Ami Clarke shares her experience of living with endometriosis.

A woman arrives back in Plymouth in time to begin her chemotherapy treatment.