Facing threats from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to withhold funding, Johannesburg’s city manager, Dr Floyd Brink, told Parliament that rising revenue collections had stabilised the city’s finances. But its municipal entities have written off at least R45bn in fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

BEIRUT, June 9 (Reuters) – Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killing at least eight people, the Lebanese health ministry said, and minutes later ordered the evacuation of the entire city for the first time.

An administrative blunder by EFF leader Julius Malema’s legal team has handed the PA’s Kenny Kunene an early courtroom victory after Malema’s defamation case was struck from the roll.

June 9 (Reuters) – In a first, a Navy surface drone found and rescued two crew members from an Army Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman’s coast, the U.S. military told Reuters, and President Donald Trump said the pilots were “fine.”

A witness testifying before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry under a pseudonym for security reasons says he knew organised crime accused Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala as an informant who provided tip-offs on successful operations. Matlala now faces several serious criminal charges alongside senior police officers.

The European Commission says Apple’s decision not to launch Siri AI in the EU is Apple’s alone, arguing that the company sought an exemption from Digital Markets Act interoperability rules instead of building a compliant privacy- and security-preserving solution. Apple, meanwhile, says regulators rejected its proposals and claims the DMA would require giving third-party AI systems overly broad...

A seemingly light-hearted comment from Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen’s chief of staff about farmers’ foot-and-mouth disease concerns has triggered a serious discussion on South Africa’s vaccination strategy.

Mexico coach Javier Aguirre has selected a team that is balanced in every sense of the word. From experience blended with youth, to tactical fluidity across most positions. The team’s Achilles heel may be playing in front of an expectant home crowd.

The plants were stolen from the wild, rescued by the state, then delivered into another kind of danger. Inside Kirstenbosch’s greenhouses, South Africa’s plant-poaching crisis has become a grim question: what happens when confiscation saves plants only long enough for them to die?

The chancellor, Kamar Samuels, acknowledged a “lapse in procedure,” amid an investigation into a $180,000 contract for foreign language instructors.

Pampallis, an educationist, historian and architect of the South African Schools Act, devoted his life to dismantling apartheid’s grip on the classroom.

Inside Zimbabwe’s Shangani Holistic, a 65,000-hectare ‘living laboratory’, scientists and farmers are exploring how cattle, wildlife and people can coexist on the same land.

Environmental law watchdogs are pushing back against government plans to introduce a more ‘flexible’ environmental impact assessment (EIA) process, warning that the proposed changes could weaken public participation, undermine proper assessment and increase the incentives for corruption.