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.

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...

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.

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.

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.