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It comes as US President Donald Trump criticises Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands.

General details mystery overtime claims that he reported to Ipid

One person has sustained second-degree burns and is currently receiving medical treatment.

This follows a decision to hike membership contributions by 9.8% this year.

Three people were killed by lightning in the Harry Gwala District this month during severe storms.

A new Kenyan intelligence report said the Kenyans were recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine after being misled with false promises of jobs in Russia before being sent to the front lines.

The gunmen launched simultaneous assaults on multiple communities in a remote border district, officials say.

Bellarmine Mugabe is in custody after he allegedly shot a security guard at a property in Johannesburg.

Officers in Kano search cafes and restaurants every year during Ramadan looking for Muslims breaking the fast.

Investigators call the recruitment a well-organised trafficking ring involving immigration staff and security agencies.

The US bought more goods than it sold in 2025 as the White House attempts to reverse the flow.

Sources close to the company insist that its difficulties stem entirely from “the Mandelson legacy”.

Despite the gazetted reforms aimed at strengthening the industry, they do not address the imports that contributed to the liquidation of a 134-year-old South African company.

Rand Water has been granted an urgent licence to extract more water from the Vaal to help supply Gauteng.

Ramaphosa insists that success within the GNU must be owned collectively rather than politicised.

The president has pushed back against MPs claims’ that the successes outlined in his State of the Nation address should be credited to coalition partners

MPs had criticised the president for establishing another task team to tackle the country’s water crisis after he set up a police special investigations task team to probe those implicated in corruption at the Madlanga commission

England forward Bukayo Saka commits his future to Premier League leaders Arsenal by signing a new five-year deal.

The USA need an extra end to beat Switzerland 7-6 in a dramatic finish to qualify for the women’s curling semi-finals, knocking Great Britain out of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor has called for the rules to be changed over goalkeeper timeouts.

Talk about good timing! A Kaizer Chiefs star looks set to return for the club just in time for next weekend’s Soweto derby.

Minnie Dlamini and her friends immersed themselves in all things Galentine’s as they celebrated their friendship in Cape Town.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been under fire due to his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Episode five of ‘Uthando Nes’thembu’ revealed just how complex the issues between Musa Mseleku and Thobile MaKhumalo truly are.

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Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 20 February 2026

The Canadian curling teams have been accused of cheating at the Winter Olympic Games in Italy

The competition organisers have come up with another new invention to promote attacking rugby.

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“If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

My father, Desmond McConnell, who has died aged 95, made a great contribution to mineralogy, inspiring scientists around the world.

At Cambridge University in the 1960s and 70s, with the excellent X-ray diffraction facilities in the Mineralogy Department, he developed work first published by his crystallographer colleagues, Peter Gay and Mike Bown, on the incommensurate behaviour (ie falling...

Motorists in South Africa are spending considerably less on petrol than they were a few months ago.

SANRAL will raise fees across all its toll plazas in South Africa next month.

The cheapest Toyota Corolla Cross costs more than R400,000 in South Africa.

Around 1,000 operations a week rely on the product as patients are warned delays are inevitable.

The decision, on the case of a child who sustained a brain injury at birth in 2015, could have significant cost implications for the NHS.