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A new, split High Court ruling effectively quashes Discovery’s attempts to declare the RAF and its CEO to be in breach of an earlier court ruling – but Discovery plans to appeal.

Abrie Beeslaar officially retired from Kanonkop Wine Estate in November this year after 23 vintages at the helm of the 12th Most Admired Wine Brand in the World. His own wine brand, eponymously named Beeslaar Wines, has been producing Stellenbosch Pinotage and Chardonnay since 2012. 

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Two teenagers were killed in what is believed to be a gang shooting on Tuesday night, with Western Cape police launching a manhunt for the gunmen.

Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm.

Air Portugal, or TAP, is contemplating moving crew members from “safe houses” in Mozambique to South Africa in anticipation of trouble after a ruling next week about the disputed election.

Director Dave Wilson feared there would be hesitation from Hollywood surrounding the idea for the video game anthology TV series “Secret Level.”

An overview of the biggest business developments in SA and beyond.

First it was a collapse in the currency. Now the rest of Brazil’s financial markets are in the cross-hairs as investors lose faith in the government’s ability to contain a deepening fiscal crisis.

[Leadership] The Federal Government has renamed the University of Abuja to Yakubu Gowon University.

[Daily Trust] The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC), has distributed learning and play materials worth over N3 million to 23 young female proprietors of community-based early childhood schools in Kano and Jigawa states as part of its continuing support for young female secondary school graduates to set up and run Early Childhood Care Development (ECCD) centres.

[Daily Trust] Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, has said that his motivation to continue investing in education stems from the fact that building roads, bridges and other infrastructures are mere brick and motar without the development of the human mind.

[This Day] With over 17 million children aged five to 14 years deprived of adequate schooling in Nigeria, constituting over 20 per cent of the world’s out-of-school children, innovative approaches to education, such as STEM METS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Science), offer a promising pathway to transform learning outcomes and secure...

With over 60 million downloads and an estimated $180 million in revenue since late October, a new Pokemon mobile game app is enjoying worldwide success as the latest incarnation of the hit Nintendo-owned franchise.

A cybersquatting scheme targeting prominent writers and entrepreneurs has exposed flaws in Bluesky’s domain-based verification system, newsletter Tedium reports, citing users. Bloomberg columnist Conor Sen reported receiving an extortion attempt this week when an anonymous user who had purchased his namesake domain demanded payment to transfer ownership. The episode has unraveled wider...

The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.

Dr. Mark Hyman, a “functional medicine” proponent and longtime friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is finding powerful allies in his bid to treat disease with blood tests and supplements.

Statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk tap into a dispute over whether lifestyle changes or drugs are a better way to treat obesity.

Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.

A white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change, with Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday.

South Africa’s grand hydrogen ambitions could be setting us up for failure. Instead of chasing far-fetched export dreams, we should focus on using green hydrogen locally to fuel industrial growth, writes Nick Hedley.

Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States.

Fine particle air pollution killed nearly 240 000 people in the European Union in 2022, a five percent fall on the previous year, the European Environment Agency said in a report published Tuesday.