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BBC Sport football pundits Micah Richards, Joe Hart, Theo Walcott, Stephen Warnock share their stories of what it is like to get a call before a major tournament telling you if you are in or out of the England squad.

Spotlight is our bite-size entertainment snapshot featuring new releases in South Africa, exclusive film trailers and more.

Suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in a rebel-held part of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province, hundreds of kilometres from the outbreak’s epicentre, officials said on Thursday.

MTN Group plans to convert its African tower estate into a distributed AI compute fabric, installing open GPU infrastructure at base-station sites so that the same hardware can run both the cellular network and edge AI inference workloads. The plan was set out by MTN Group chief technology and information officer Charles Molapisi at an […]

Utilities across Africa have entered a new era of digital grid management, with artificial intelligence, smart metering and real-time operational visibility emerging as critical tools for managing electricity networks, according to a panel discussion at the Enlit Africa conference in Cape Town. Participants outlined how data-driven technologies are reshaping grid operations, improving...

About 400 years ago, beavers were hunted to extinction across Britain. Now they’re being reintroduced as little climate warriors, as communities harness their dam-building skills to mitigate flooding.

The outbreak, caused by a rare Ebola species, is thought to have caused 139 deaths so far.

India’s newest political movement started with an insult – and led to people proudly dressing up as cockroaches.

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Africa was announced last week, then quickly declared an emergency by the WHO. It’s likely cuts in U.S. aid to the DRC contributed to a delay in identifying the outbreak.

Mali is a landlocked country and depends heavily on fuel transported from neighbouring countries.

Nine deportees arrive from the US as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

West Ham defender Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Newcastle striker Yoane Wissa are named in DR Congo’s squad for the World Cup.

Ebola was first discovered in what is now the DR Congo in 1976 and the country is now facing its 17th outbreak.

A group of sugar growers are looking to save Tongaat Hulett from liquidation, with thousands of jobs on the line.

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has warned taxpayers about a new criminal tactic aimed at emptying bank accounts.

For decades, private banking has been synonymous with exclusivity. The traditional model centred on personalised service, privileged access and carefully curated financial products for wealthy clients.

This year’s Local Government Elections will be held on November 4.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile will deliver a keynote address at the NEPAD @ 25 Business Breakfast

TRC Commission chaired by retired Constitutional Court Justice Sisi Khampempe continues today

Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero delivered the State of the City Address on Wednesday.

Ulster are handed a major boost as fit-again winger Robert Baloucoune has been named to start Friday’s European Challenge Cup final against Montpellier.

Former Bafana Bafana stars Percy Tau and Njabulo Blom are both without clubs after leaving Vietnamese side Nam Dinh FC.

South Africa’s Bafana Bafana face Mexico in the 2026 FIFA World Cup opener at the Estadio Azteca. Mzansi fans need around R40,000 to watch it live.

Bafana Bafana return to the FIFA World Cup after 16 years with a tough opener against Mexico at the iconic Estadio Azteca.

Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me

Maths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level, to the extent that I chose to do it at A-level. As early as the first week of the A-level course, however, it became abundantly clear that the subject was quite beyond me. I simply couldn’t make head or tail of what the...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) uses a means test to decide who qualifies for a social grant. Here is exactly how it works.

The Shed Surfers Corner, a popular beachfront restaurant in Muizenberg, has announced it will close its doors.

Kolisi said she needed more time to recover after undergoing surgery.

Bolt has officially launched its electric vehicle category in South Africa, starting in Cape Town with plans to scale.

The coach has tweaked the squad since they last played in Hong Kong.

South Africa is forecast to invest $71 billion in digital, transport and smart city systems by 2050, to converge them into intelligent, digitally-enabled infrastructure networks.

A svelte smart ring can track important activity, sleep, and health metrics. Plus—unlike most smartwatches—it doesn’t need to be charged every day.

Contactable’s Shaun Strydom argues operators that modernise Rica first will gain a decisive competitive advantage.

After a fourth case of meningitis B has been confirmed in Reading, BBC South’s health correspondent Alastair Fee shares what you need to know.