News South Africa

Michael ‘Venom’ Page will fight for the Bellator welterweight title in London against champion Yaroslav Amosov.

Significant damage has been reported but with communications down the scale is unclear.

Anti-apartheid activist and former human rights commissioner Max Coleman has died.

Equal Education together with several civil and legal organisations have added their voices to calls to end rotational learning at schools.

The Life Esidimeni Inquest resumes on Monday. This is after cross-examination of the seventh witness, Hendricka Jacobus.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that South Africans needed to protect the Constitution, the democratic state and electoral process from those seeking to weaken democracy and hard-won freedom.

A video tweeted by Palermo police appears to show a 58-year-old woman draining syringes into tissues before sticking the needle into a patient’s arm.

The head of Credit Suisse has resigned less than a year after taking the reins of the scandal-hit bank following reports that he had broken Covid quarantine rules.

Official says there is an immediate need for drinking water and food, as efforts begin to assess scale of damage.

The married woman from Tokyo, Japan, who had sex with the sperm donor ten times is now suing for $2.8 million for mental distress.

Thousands have died in the fighting, while many more are facing starvation in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region.

The Continent feels like an old-fashioned newspaper: catchy headlines, short stories and interviews freely available via WhatsApp.

Live coverage of Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations Group E game between Algeria and Equatorial Guinea (19:00 GMT).

Live coverage of Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations Group F game between Tunisia and Mauritania (16:00 GMT).

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has warned companies against introducing mandatory vaccination policies, which it says risks infringing the Constitutional rights of workers.

Most bourses elsewhere rose, with Turkey’s BIST index up for 11 straight sessions after a currency crisis-led slump.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa needs to protect the Constitution and the democratic state from anyone who wants to weaken it.

African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament Mervyn Dirks wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Parliament.

Alleged Parliament arsonist, Zandile Mafe, intends to plead not guilty to the charges against him relating to the fire that gutted the old and new National Assembly buildings earlier this month.

Weighing in on the possible outcomes of the ANC elective conference, Mokoena predicted court battles and an implosion of the ANC.

South African tennis ace Kevin Anderson has been beaten in the first round at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

The Soweto giants are in a race for FIVE top quality PSL transfer targets – will they join Kaizer Chiefs or Orlando Pirates?

Novak Djokovic’s bruising Australian saga not only stalled his push for a record 21st Grand Slam, but could also force his multi-million dollar backers to rethink their relationship with one of tennis’s greatest if flawed champions.

Prada listed some of Hollywood’s leading men for their Autumn/Winter 2022/23 collection co-designed by Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada.

A number of fashion houses at Paris menswear week will return to physical shows with Louis Vuitton showing Virgil Abloh’s final collection.

Behind any great live performance by artists, there is an exceptional and hard-working sound engineer lurking in the background making it all possible.

The Department of Basic Education urges matric learners to register on its website to view their results when they become available on 21 January.

At least three fibre-to-the-home users in South Africa consumed more than 1 petabyte of data during 2021, according to major fibre Internet Service Providers in the country.

Chrome and Edge users have complained they are unable to delete search engines from their settings pages that are “hijacking” their browser’s default search option.

The local crypto-currency exchanges anticipate the introduction of a clear South African digital currency regulatory regime by the end of 2022.

South Africa’s new-vehicle market is expected to continue its gradual recovery in 2022, but recurring issues including load shedding and global chip shortages will continue to bite.

Epidemiologist Professor Mike Tildesley says we could be seeing the Omicron wave turning around.

The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data.

More than half of schools had teachers absent due to Covid-19 during the first full week of term.

As the fast-spreading variant has blanketed the country, known cases and hospitalizations have surged, and officials warn of tough weeks ahead.

Fry Taylor founded the Green Salon Collective which is encouraging sustainable working practices in the hairdressing industry.

To ensure the promises of COP26 are kept, young campaigners are putting their faith in the courts.

Ernst Gotsch’s method of agriculture increases, rather than decreases, biodiversity and wildlife.

Around the US, an estimated three million oil wells have been abandoned. They’re more dangerous than we think.