THURSDAY, 15 JANUARY 2026, 02:17
Scientists calculate that last year was one of the three hottest on record, along with 2024 and 2023. The trend indicates that warming could be speeding up, climate monitoring teams reported.
Dom Taylor is given a six-month suspension for failing a drugs test during the PDC World Championship.
The pause starting on 21 January will bar foreign nationals who ‘would take welfare and public benefits.’
US president Donald Trump has paused visa applications of 75 different countries, 15 of which have qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
Luxity’s latest State of the Luxury Market in Africa report shows a decisive change in how South Africans buy high-end goods. Bags, jewellery and watches are in. Shoes, wallets and overhyped items are out. The luxury consumer has not disappeared, but has simply become harder to impress.
Phahlane was speaking at Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee hearings in Cape Town.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. placed about 90 percent of the roughly 1,000 employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on administrative leave last April.
This evidence for the most complex technology known in hunter-gatherer behaviour is a ‘clear sign of advanced thinking in early humans’, the scientists believe.
Elephants are steadily reducing the number of mature marula trees in the park, while regeneration has all but collapsed due to browsing from other herbivores. By allowing their numbers to remain at current levels we are choosing short-term comfort over long-term ecological integrity.
The satellite technology has become a vital communications lifeline after the government shut down the internet last week.
With a new strategy approved, South Africa aims to enhance the welfare of children and teens by addressing basic needs like nutrition, safety and education. Despite improvements over the past three decades, many still face significant risks. The initiative seeks to bolster community and governmental support, aiming to reverse alarming trends in child health and wellbeing.
Listen as Redi Tlhabi speaks with political scientist and PARI executive director Dr Sithembile Mbete about the United Nations at a moment of deep, deep strain. They talk through why decades of debate on Security Council reform have led nowhere, how the veto entrenches global inequality, and what this paralysis means for Africa and the global South. It is a conversation about privilege, stalled...
Three Iranian navy ships remain in False Bay — and one participated in exercise Will for Peace, according to the SANDF.
Coal power generation fell in China and India for the first time since the 1970s last year, in a “historic” moment that could bring a decline in global emissions, according to analysis. From a report: The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973, according to analysts at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean...
Actor and rapper Will Smith has won praise after stepping in to replace YouTuber Salah Brooks’s stolen skydiving equipment.
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Western Cape Education Department condemns this morning’s disruption at Bastiaanse High School
Daryl Mitchell hits a superb unbeaten century as New Zealand levelled their one-day international series against India with a seven-wicket win in Rajkot.