RUGBY: Stormers and Bulls send Champions Cup mentality warning to the rest of Europe
The Bulls and the Stormers both narrowly lost in the Champions Cup round of 16 at the weekend, but despite the setbacks, it signalled a new era in the tournament.
MONDAY, 06 APRIL 2026, 22:55
The Bulls and the Stormers both narrowly lost in the Champions Cup round of 16 at the weekend, but despite the setbacks, it signalled a new era in the tournament.
Through pragmatic, results-focused policy reforms, South Africa could begin to recapture the confidence of global capital and become an enabling hub for Chinese, emerging and Western companies to establish regional headquarters and build supply chains to serve their expansions into an expanding pan-African economy.
There is a thread that runs from Golgotha to the hold of a slave ship to a chamber of the United Nations on a Wednesday afternoon in March 2026. It is not a thread of progress. It is a thread of recurrence.
A surprising contender emerges from the shadows as a little-known Democratic Alliance member enters the presidential race, challenging a more prominent rival just days before the federal congress.

A total of 1 163 rounds of ammunition and four rifles were confiscated.

You can score over $200 off the DJI Osmi 360.
Although a holiday week in South Africa inevitably means subdued activity in local company news, there were still some juicy stories that came through.
More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper middle class, up from about 10% in 1979, according to a report released...

The second quarter of 2026 has opened with a fascinating divide in the crypto market, as retail enthusiasm for meme coins meets the institutional expansion of decentralized finance. While traders analyze the latest Pepe price prediction to catch the next viral wave and monitor the Hyperliquid price for signs of institutional stability, a third narrative […]

Soldier In Milan, ridden by Donagh Meyler, races clear to win the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.

This colossal pizza oven is both pricey and impractical. It also makes the best pizza I’ve ever cooked at home.

The order allows a lower court to consider dismissing the former Trump strategist’s indictment.

The Waitrose employee says he was dismissed from his job after 17 years for trying to stop a theft of Easter eggs.
Government officials and anti-government activists alike denounced the attacks on the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, the latest Iranian center for higher education to be targeted.

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Fly-half Lleucu George is looking to add some much-needed spark into Wales’ attack in the 2026 Women’s Six Nations.
Dr Hayley Clements, one of the participants in an upcoming Tipping Points webinar, reveals that sub-Saharan Africa has lost a quarter of its biodiversity, stressing the need for inclusive conservation strategies that empower local communities.

While Washington spent two years threatening Pretoria, Donald Trump built the conditions for his own undoing. At 35% approval and $4-a-gallon gas, the leverage is expiring.
A likely cure for one of the Western Cape’s worst pine weeds is ready for roll-out, after conservationists and pine growers break a 15-year deadlock on the safety of the biological control agent. Government funding remains the last bottleneck, as the province gets hotter, drier and more fire-prone.

Two men were inside a vehicle when it was blown away by strong wind and hit a wall