THURSDAY, 06 AUGUST 2026, 23:24
Top Stories
Donald Trump frames his endeavours in physically transforming the city as making it ‘beautiful and safe’. But that’s not how it feels to those of us who live here.
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They claim around 230,000 homes would become available under their plan to limit social housing entitlements.
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The Bay does not need its residents to be managed as stakeholders. It needs them to stand as rights-holders: informed, organised, mutually committed and clear about the terms upon which their city must be rebuilt.
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Cape Town’s draft Short‑Term Letting By‑Law reclassifies many Airbnb-style rentals as commercial, raising rates and requiring registration — but will it free inner‑city housing for local renters?
South Africa
The allegations were made by IDAC State Advocate Drushantha Ramsam at the Madlanga Commission.
South Africa
The accused made a brief appearance in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court this morning.
South Africa
IDAC’s Matthews Sesoko has finished his testimony before the Madlanga Commission.
South Africa
MEC Lerule-Ramakhanya says they’re in the second phase of complying to an Appeal Court Order.
World
Yinon Levy is charged with reckless manslaughter over the July 2025 shooting of Odeh Hathaleen.
World
Towle was known for chronicling her hopes and struggles as a young person living with cancer.
World
Ukrainian strikes have targeted key economic and military supply chains in recent weeks.
World
SpaceX’s shares are unlocked Thursday, and some early employees could see a massive windfall. The BBC’s Samira Hussain explains.
Africa
The African confederation has yet to take an official stance, but where do the key African footballing nations stand on the Infantino saga?
Africa
Jacob Zuma was pictured with a businessmen allegedly at the heart of a corruption scandal in South Africa
Africa
Commonwealth Games chef de mission Godwin Kayangwe says he hopes the athletes will return home before their visas expire in October.
Africa
The world’s oldest leader, 93, has been absent for two months while his team denies rumours about his health.
Business
The cost of parking at Medway Maritime Hospital has increased while shift wages have reduced by 20%.
Business
People aged between 18 and 23 may have thousands in unclaimed government accounts.
Business
Accell, based in the Netherlands, has owned the famous bike brand since 2012.
Business
Growers in the West of England search for new crops to grow in a changing climate.
Politics
Legal challenge to the Expropriation Act was launched before assessing the impact on people: Hofmeyr
Politics
The ANC in the eThekwini region has expressed shock at the murder of its councillor in Ward 17 .
Politics
Joy Peter says Galube told her Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu needed to be protected.
Politics
An ANC Ward Councillor has been shot and killed in Klaarwater near Mariannhill.
Sport
Liverpool have no intention of pursuing Djed Spence this summer, Juventus looking to secure Joshua Zirkzee on loan, Arsenal and Manchester United send scouts to watch Kaua Elias, plus more.
Sport
London Spirit are the first side to be knocked out of the men’s Hundred after a six-wicket defeat by MI London at Lord’s.
Sport
Queensberry promoter Frank Warren says Irish boxer Michael Reeves is “making progress” after being hospitalised following his fight in Dublin on Saturday night.
Sport
St Helens will face Hull FC in Dublin as part of a Super League double-header next April, the day after Warrington Wolves take on Wigan Warriors.
Education
The federal government said the school’s admissions policies, which promote diversity, allowed for racial preferences.
Education
Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for ‘grotesque racism unleashed’
The University of Cambridge’s leaders deserve blame for the “grotesque racism unleashed” by Jason Arday’s appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the university to hold an independent inquiry.
The Guardian understands that senior dons at Cambridge are...
Education
[Nile Post] Twenty government-aided primary schools in Ibanda District have received science kits from the Government of Uganda in a move aimed at improving practical science learning and boosting pupils’ performance in science subjects.
Education
[Nile Post] Private education stakeholders have launched a nationwide tree-planting campaign aimed at restoring Uganda’s environment through the planting of seven million trees across the country.
Lifestyle
Dua Lipa’s bikinis have been impossible to miss this year, from a sequin two-piece to her honeymoon-ready metallic look on the Amalfi Coast.
Lifestyle
A small SA town is evolving into the ‘Camps Bay of the West Coast’, with multimillion-rand homes attracting local and international buyers.
Lifestyle
New Amakhosi WAG alert: Meet Kaizer Chiefs star Langelihle Phili’s blonde soccer-playing girlfriend, Kyra Comins…
Lifestyle
SASSA Grant recipients are speaking out about a part of the process that many say is harder than it should be.
Entertainment
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Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories of Thursday, 6 August 2026, that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.
Entertainment
‘Abrahams now joins Amakhosi as the team prepares for the MTN8 quarterfinal clash against Golden Arrows,’ said Chiefs.
Entertainment
The tourists take on the four SA URC sides as well as the Springboks in four Tests.
Science/Tech
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used Claude to build a gloriously impractical setup that runs Doom in the background and pastes each rendered frame into Microsoft Paint through the Windows clipboard. The project is referred to as “DoomPaint” or “MS Paint Doom” on GitHub. The Register reports: To be clear, Microsoft Paint isn’t doing anything other than serving as a place to paste from the...
Science/Tech
The move lifts a rule that said a single television-station owner could not reach more than 39 percent of U.S. households.
Science/Tech
OpenAI researchers say multiple AI agents secretly created an internal message board to share hacking techniques, eventually finding ways around restrictions, exploiting a zero-day, and helping two models breach Hugging Face without human prompting. “This is a pivotal moment both for our company as well as the AI industry as a whole,” Michael Dalton, one of the AI-maker’s researchers, said...
Science/Tech
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
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Health
Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.
Health
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
Health
The drug targeted inflammation, and its shocking failure has experts questioning whether inflammation really does cause heart disease.
Health
Dr. Anthony Fauci had refused to answer questions at a hearing last week, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republicans argued that he wasn’t entitled to that protection because he had a presidential pardon.