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Mr Price ploughs ahead with controversial R9.7 billion purchase
Mr Price’s controversial acquisition of NKD Group is now as good as done after all regulatory conditions have been met.
MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2026, 17:36

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Mr Price’s controversial acquisition of NKD Group is now as good as done after all regulatory conditions have been met.
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Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni receives a provisional one-match Uefa suspension after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr reported alleged racist abuse during last week’s Champions League meeting.

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Ukraine faces ‘unprecedented’ challenges as war grinds on

South Africa
The miners have been stuck underground since last Tuesday.

South Africa
The e-hailing driver was killed inside his vehicle in Atteridgeville Pretoria earlier this month.

South Africa
General Shadrack Sibiya is testifying before Madlanga Commission.
South Africa
Institutions warned against misusing internationalisation to evade immigration law
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training has warned universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges against using internationalisation as a reason to ignore South Africa’s immigration and labour laws.
The warning follows a recent joint meeting with the...

World
As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.

World
Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity during a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.

World
The 38-year-old is sworn in as premier after clinching a narrow victory in October’s election.

World
President Trump says he is raising global tariffs to 15%. And ahead of the president’s address tomorrow, most Americans say the state of the union is not strong, according to an NPR poll.

Africa
A Chadian government spokesperson says the decision is aimed at protecting citizens.

Africa
Bellarmine Mugabe and one other man have not commented on the charges after a 23-year-old was shot.

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.

Business
Skukuza Airport in Kruger National Park has been named the most beautiful airport in the world by Forbes.

Business
Mr Price has received regulatory approvals to acquire NKD amidst large pushback from investors.

Business
The rand is “treading water” around R16 to the dollar at the moment, as global uncertainty has markets in a ‘wait-and-see’ mode, and tensions in the Middle East push traders into gold.
Business

Politics
Some Johannesburg residents are hoping to hear how Lesufi intends to deal with unemployment, water

Politics
Mogotsi had initially preferred to appear virtually, citing safety concerns.

Politics
Ad Hoc Committee draws up 122 questions for President Cyril Ramaphosa

Politics
Evidence before the commission shows that Sibiya sent images of distressed impalas to Senthumule.

Sport
Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs return to the spotlight as they face Stellenbosch FC in the Betway Premiership at FNB. Here’s the line-up to expect.

Sport
With Hugo Broos set to step down after the FIFA World Cup, Pitso Mosimane has thrown his name into the ring for the Bafana Bafana job.

Sport
The most striking photographs from the Milan-Cortina Games.

Sport
Ireland wing James Lowe is a doubt for the Six Nations game against Wales after he sustained a groin injury in his side’s 42-21 victory over England.

Education
The government has set out broad changes it will make to the SEND system in England in the coming years.

Education
Ties to the disgraced financier run deep through the academic world, documents released by the DoJ show
Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.
In some cases, professors...

Education
New special educational needs regime to result in far fewer children being given education, health and care plans
UK politics live – latest updates
Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary on Monday.
Bridget Phillipson...

Education
Finance campaigner marches on to set and tells Tory leader her policy to cut interest rates will only help top earners
UK politics live – latest updates
Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis.
As the Conservative leader was being...
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
Thoblie MaKhumalo’s fans speculated whether the man in her new gallery wall includes her father or husband, Musa Mseleku.
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
An exceptionally small Cape Town apartment has gone viral on social media. Take a look inside – and why locals are irate over it…

Entertainment
‘One of the ways to destroy a nation is to destroy its arts and culture,’ says ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba.

Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 24 February 2026.
Entertainment
The retro-styled will open iCaur’s product range, and have two-wheel drive as standard, with the option of a dual-motor all-wheel drive variant.

Entertainment
The defender’s contract is set to expire at the end of June.
Science/Tech
A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult — whom the researchers call “hasslers” — are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% per additional hassler and about nine months of additional biological age relative to same-age peers. The research drew on DNA methylation-based...

Science/Tech
ASML researchers have found a way to make its critical chip-making machines produce up to 50% more chips.
Science/Tech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI’s environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT’s water consumption as “totally fake” and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI’s energy use is to compare it against humans. In an interview with Indian Express, Altman acknowledged that evaporative cooling in data centers once made water usage a real concern but...

Science/Tech
Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectations
Business live – latest updates
The owner of Wegovy and Ozempic has suffered a significant setback, as its highly anticipated new weight-loss treatment was labelled “obsolete” after disappointing clinical trials.
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell sharply on Monday after the results from testing the...
Motoring
Motoring

Motoring
The South African National Taxi Council plans to overhaul the industry with a new payment system and regular compliance checks on drivers and vehicles.

Motoring
South Africa’s largest retail motor industry trade union has criticized PG Glass and Glassfit following allegations that both companies engaged in price fixing for over two decades.

Health
Josephina Finch says the surgery left her with a “gaping wound”.

Health
The medicines regulator is suggesting the minimum age limit for trial should be raised to 14.

Health
The company behind the test said there were positive signs that some of the most aggressive cancers could be prevented.
Health
The next moon mission, carrying four astronauts, could launch as soon as early March.