
‘Nearly killed me’: Rocomamas’ wing challenge goes horribly wrong [video]
A Joburg man shared how competing in the Rocomamas Fire Wing Challenge landed him in the emergency room…
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A Joburg man shared how competing in the Rocomamas Fire Wing Challenge landed him in the emergency room…

Beninese superstar Angélique Kidjo and America saxophonist Kamasi Washington will headline the 27th annual Joy of Jazz.
Anti-foreigner group March and March protested in Tshwane and Johannesburg this week, using rhetoric likely to rise ahead of the local government elections.
Beijing’s insistence that Meta unwind its deal with a Chinese A.I. start-up escalates the geopolitical fight over advanced tech.
South Africa’s latest crime statistics suggest a country getting safer, but that’s only part of the story. Commercial crime – fraud, scams, and financial exploitation – is rising, with cases doubling over the past decade. It’s a quieter crime, but one that targets ordinary South Africans directly, often through the very systems they rely on. Why has this surge escaped national attention?...
Draped in civic language and national symbols, March and March is reshaping anti-foreigner politics — with carefully staged activism and a leader-centric movement at its core.

There were highly charged scenes as former senior regime official, Atef Najib, appeared before a Damascus court.

Acting AG Todd Blanche said the case was investigated for months, adding “it’s serious when you threaten the president.”
The call for Trump to seize Earth’s largest unclaimed landmass did not start in The Wall Street Journal. It began with a more sweeping claim from an Irish tech executive whose firm has a reported history of US defence contracts. This investigation tracks what changed, and what still doesn’t add up.

Our story about Jeanette Kidiemetse Moses generated 183 comments. Almost none of them read it.

Powell’s news conference after holding rates covered the US-Israel war with Iran, inflation, legal attacks, and the Fed’s independence
MacRumors reports that Apple has effectively paused work on Vision Pro after the M5 refresh failed to revive demand. The team has reportedly been reassigned and the company is now shifting focus toward smart glasses instead. From the report: The Vision Pro has been criticized for its high price tag and its uncomfortable weight. The device is over 1.3 pounds, and even with the more comfortable...

‘It is one of the biggest areas we need to improve – a consistency in our mindset and in our behaviour going forward,’ said the Chiefs co-head coach.
Across major cities, political entrepreneurs like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Zandile Dabula are staging increasingly bold anti-migrant marches, with little pushback from authorities. As António Guterres condemns the surge in threats and violence, South Africa faces mounting pressure to act before rhetoric turns fully combustible.

Brazilians spurn chances and Lebo Mothiba spurns penalty in otherwise solid showing, Siwelele crash Amakhosi’s party

A win took them to 61 points, two clear of Orlando Pirates after 26 matches.

Péter Magyar meets EU leaders in Brussels, for the first time since his Tisza party won a landslide election.

The Pentagon estimates the war has cost $25 billion over the past two months. In congressional testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not say when the war might end.

Peet Viljoen – the husband of ‘Real Housewives’ star Mel Viljoen – has spoken out on their experience in a US ICE detention centre.
eThekwini (Durban) and Mangaung (Bloemfontein) have the dubious honour of being the two leakiest cities in South Africa, with more than 40% of their purified tap water supplies going to waste.