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n today’s evolving investment landscape, diversification remains central to building resilient portfolios. While traditional portfolios, anchored in equities and bonds, still matter, recent shifts have encouraged investors to broaden their approach.

Daily Investor visited Thrupps, South Africa’s oldest grocery store. This is what it looks like inside.

‘Those who don’t drink get teased and spurned by friends’

The US star’s best actor win for Sinners leaves the Oscars race too close to call.

In the last appearance, Judge Phillip Loubser expressed concern over the delay.

The conflict between Iran, Israel and the US has caused disruption to global air transport.

Al Jama-ah frames the attacks as a violation of faith and law, calling them a “blot on humanity”

Residents rely on a fountain as a source of water for domestic use

It’s the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.

The high prices came as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain.

Growing insecurity in the Sahel made 2025 one of the worst years on record for the abduction of foreigners in Africa.

The move could undermine Lilongwe’s pursuit of a new programme with the International Monetary Fund

He used the girls’ mother’s life-threatening illness as an opportunity to demand sex, said the US Office of Public Affairs.

This is the highest number of confirmed casualties from a single African country in the Ukraine-Russia war.

The disgraced financier was in talks to buy luxury abode Bin Ennakhi – but the purchase was never completed.

The Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED) has successfully concluded the Chemical Support Programme for the 2025/26 financial year, one of the flagship projects under the Department’s High Impact Partnership Delivery Model (HIPDM).

RMB presents Sustainability Talks: Episode 2.

South Africa has R88 billion in unclaimed assets – and the National Treasury has proposed new systems to make it easier for people to claim what is owed to them.

The Commission is probing allegations that top SAPS officials of colluding with criminal syndicates

The South African Communist Party held a two day lekgotla of its leadership, this past weekend.

The launch set for Monday, will take place at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.

The DA is taking aim at issues surrounding roads, infrastructure and the water supply.

There are finally some important updates on two Springboks who have spent an extended period on the sidelines due to injury.

Rhian Wilkinson intends to continue rotating her goalkeepers during Wales’ Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign.

Match of the Day pundits Leon Osman and Joe Hart look at how Tottenham Hotspur’s disorganisation played a big part in their 2-1 defeat against Fulham.

Match of the Day pundit Joe Hart analyses how Bruno Fernandes was a “coach on the pitch” to “get the best” out of his Manchester United team-mates in their victory over Crystal Palace.

Age aint nothing but a number? Here is the age-difference between model Sarah Langa and Springbok flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu…

Miss Universe South Africa, and former Miss SA runner-up Melissa Nayimuli, wed Mandla N in a traditional ceremony in the Eastern Cape…

Rachel Kolisi – the former partner of Springbok captain Siya Kolisi – liked a telling post by a divorce coach about ‘narcissistic exes’.

Former Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune was overcome with emotion after his club’s dramatic loss to Orlando Pirates at the Soweto Derby.

The Lions won four out of their six local derbies to clinch the SA Shield for the first time in the URC era.

Aiden Markram and Suryakumar Yadav have been in good form with the bat for their teams.

A Jehovah’s Witness father is refusing to allow doctors to conduct a blood transfusion if his son has a liver transplant

As Jehovah’s Witnesses, family wants ‘other ways’ to save critical teen.

Look west after sunset this week to see the pair converge in the dusk, closing in on a near-conjunction on 8 March

Look west as the evening twilight gathers this week for a chance to spot the planets Venus and Saturn. The accompanying chart shows the view looking west from London at 18.10 GMT on 2 March.

Venus will be the brighter of the pair, dominating the sky at magnitude –4. Saturn will...

For independent power producers, grid access on paper does not automatically translate into real-world access.

Award-winning science fiction and horror writer died in Colorado on 21 February with family at his side

Dan Simmons, the author of more than 30 novels and short story collections spanning horror, political thrillers and science fiction such as Hyperion and The Terror, has died at age 77.

Simmons died in Longmont, Colorado on 21 February, with his wife and daughter at his side, his obituary...

The Western Cape is strengthening its passenger and commercial rail operations.

Twenty-five women have received compensation following gynaecological surgery.