South Africa’s corporate tax base is extremely concentrated, with around 1,000 companies paying over two-thirds of all corporate income tax, making government revenue highly vulnerable to economic shocks.
Gabrielle Goliath’s legal challenge over the cancellation of Elegy at the Venice Biennale revives an old story: the uneasy, enduring struggle between artists and the powers that seek to contain them.
SA paused last month to take stock of its future as the National Senior Certificate results were released. Across the country, families celebrated hard-won passes, distinctions were circulated on social media, and schools proudly showcased their top achie
Candidate Laura Fernández won a resounding victory, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her predecessor.
South Africa’s sports minister Gayton McKenzie says “no formal decision” has been taken to relocate the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations away from Morocco.
Caroline Willgoose, whose 15-year-old son was killed by another pupil, says murder was ‘senseless and avoidable’
The family of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death at school by another pupil has said her son’s murder was “senseless and avoidable” and that a report ordered by the school showed too many “red flags” were missed.
Harvey Willgoose died one year ago to the day, and his killer,...
[Nile Post] Maria Junior Buryanshungwe Primary School in Kitagwenda District has emerged as one of Uganda’s top five best-performing primary schools in the 2025 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE), according to results released by the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB).
[SNA] – The Prime Minister, Professor Kamil Idris, visited on Saturday afternoon the General Headquarters of Ansar Al-Sunnah Al-Muhammadiyah (Sunna Supporters) Group in Khartoum.
The crypto market is deep in bear territory, with sentiment pointing to further pullbacks. Crypto assets as a whole lack a clear catalyst to help stabilize plunging prices. In these conditions, investors need to avoid chasing hype. Instead, the best cryptos to buy are those with strong fundamentals, real usage, and tangible token value. Capital […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired his AI startup xAI in an all-stock deal that values the combined entity at $1.25 trillion, ahead of what would be the largest initial public offering in history. SpaceX pegged its own valuation at $1 trillion — a markup from the $800 billion it commanded in a December secondary stock sale — and priced xAI at $250 billion based on a recent $20 billion funding...
Scientists at the University of Utah have analyzed nearly a century’s worth of human hair samples and found that lead concentrations dropped 100-fold after the EPA began cracking down on leaded gasoline and other lead-based products in the 1970s. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drew on hair collected from Utah residents — some preserved in family...
The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files shed light on the convicted sex offender’s ties to Silicon Valley—and Peter Thiel’s exacting approach to food.