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One of South Africa’s richest men preparing to run for president
Political analyst Dr Frans Cronje said billionaire Patrice Motsepe is preparing to run for the ANC leadership and eventually the presidency of South Africa.
SUNDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2026, 19:55

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Political analyst Dr Frans Cronje said billionaire Patrice Motsepe is preparing to run for the ANC leadership and eventually the presidency of South Africa.
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South Africa underline their credentials as serious challengers for the T20 World Cup with victory against co-hosts and defending champions India.

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Three golds, a record-equalling medal haul – the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics has been one to remember for Team GB.

South Africa
A study by the institution found that 23 sanitary pad brands contained at least two such chemicals.

South Africa
A truck crashed on a mountainous section of the highway near the Hendrik Verwoerd tunnel.

South Africa
The residents lamented this ahead of Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Budget Speech on Wednesday.

South Africa
SAWS says a cut off low pressure system is expected to move into the area on Sunday and Monday.

World
Greenland’s PM reminded Trump of its free healthcare, after Trump said he was sending a boat to aid people who were allegedly “not being taken care of”.

World
Pakistan’s military killed at least 70 militants in strikes along the border with Afghanistan early Sunday, the deputy interior minister said.

World
US envoy Steve Witkoff says the president is puzzled why Iran has not yet compromised in the face of a major American military build-up nearby.

World
Twenty-five people were injured by explosions overnight in what officials are calling a terror attack.

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.

Africa
In a rare occurence, three soldiers were handed jail terms for killings in the troubled Anglophone region.

Africa
Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Business
Businesses say questions remain after US President Donald Trump announced he will impose global tariffs of 15%.

Business
One of South Africa’s best-performing private schools has officially closed its doors.

Business
South Africa’s citrus industry achieved a record-breaking 2025 export season, shipping over 200 million 15kg cartons worldwide.

Business
Citizens Advice’s Warm and Well scheme in North Yorkshire will receive the money over three years.

Politics
Ramaphosa delivered the eulogy at the funeral service of Hosi Phylia N’wamitwa II in Limpopo.

Politics
Kenny Kunene has criticised Helen Zille and Herman Mashaba’s mayoral capabilities

Politics
The Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga says he wants to hear solutions at this year’s SOPA

Politics
Dlamini served as an ANC branch convener in ward 67 as a councillor who showed commitment

Sport
France score five tries on their way to a bonus-point win over Italy in Lille to take a four-point lead at the top of the Six Nations table after three games played.

Sport
South Africa’s Keshav Maharaj picks up three wickets in an over as teammate Tristan Stubbs take all three catches in their T20 World Cup victory over India in Ahmedabad.

Sport
BBC Sport lists the best performing batters and bowlers from the Men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.

Sport
Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner says he is relieved with his side’s 1-0 win over Wolves and confirms his commitment to the club until the end of the season.

Education
Labour expected to outline sweeping changes to special educational needs provision with council debt surging
Labour is due to reveal its plans to overhaul the special educational needs and disability (Send) system on Monday. But why are changes needed? And what changes are ministers likely to propose?
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Education
Already struggling to get help, families with children with special needs are concerned changes could make things worse
At the age of 12, May Race’s son Joseph spends almost all of his time in his bedroom, too anxious, burnt out and – she says – traumatised even to join his parents and older brother downstairs most days. Joseph no longer leaves the house at all.
He is autistic and has dyslexia...

Education
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
• This week’s question: what would happen to the world if computer said yes?
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Education
Education secretary suggests Labour’s priority is maintenance grants for poorer students rather than cutting interest
Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives would scrap the “unfair debt trap” of high interest rates on student loans, piling pressure on Labour ministers to tackle the growing outrage over the high costs.
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, admitted the system of plan...

Lifestyle
Ten days before his aircraft crashed, Durban pilot Leeché Manuel shared a post that many believe was a foreshadow of his tragic death…

Lifestyle
Discover the habits making you poor. Learn how behaviour and systems drain your money and how to fix them.

Lifestyle
Minister Gayton McKenzie has responded to critics who’ve claimed he has ‘forgotten’ about his vow to find missing Joslin Smith…

Lifestyle
Woolies has begun piloting South Africa’s first self-service checkout tills. Are local shoppers ready to embrace retail automation?

Entertainment
Sune Luus was the star of the show, while Sinalo Jafta put in a superb performance in her landmark game to help the Proteas beat Pakistan.

Entertainment
A big first half set the team up for the victory.

Entertainment
The SA team were superb with bat and ball against the title holders.

Entertainment
“Only a four-hour flight to Jo’burg — I feel sorry for the people on the plane because I feel like it’s going to be pretty loud!”
Science/Tech
Friday Amazon published a blog post “to address the inaccuracies” in a Financial Times report that the company’s own AI tool Kiro caused two outages in an AWS service in December. Amazon writes that the “brief” and “extremely limited” service interruption “was the result of user error — specifically misconfigured access controls — not AI as the story claims.” And “The Financial Times’ claim...
Science/Tech
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soon discovered that the same...

Science/Tech
Africa Analysis MD Andre Wills says MTN’s R35-billion tower buyback is a one-off, not a trend reversal.

Science/Tech
Microsoft has announced that gaming head Phil Spencer is retiring after 38 years, in a major leadership shake-up.
Motoring

Motoring
South Africa’s cheapest automatic car won’t cost you more than R200,000.

Motoring
Nissan welcomes Chinese automakers’ push into various countries, saying the competition will only make the industry stronger and benefit the car-buying public.

Motoring
Car theft protection has evolved beyond physical barriers and mechanisms.
Health
The next moon mission, carrying four astronauts, could launch as soon as early March.

Health
The doctors speak to Professor of Immunology, Dan Davis.
Health
A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.

Health
Manjit Sangha, from Penn, near Wolverhampton, says her life drastically change in one weekend.