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Stars offer support after husband of influencer Lorna Luxe dies
Luxe announced his death to her 1.7 million Instagram followers, saying she was “heartbroken”.
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Luxe announced his death to her 1.7 million Instagram followers, saying she was “heartbroken”.
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Thembinkosi Lorch will start a new chapter of his career in Libya with a new jersey number he was handed in by Al-Ittihad.
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South Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a massive rollout of the Lenacapavir injectable drug.-

South Africa
The investigating officer says David started receiving large amounts of money after the break-in.

South Africa
Thulani Magagula says Ekurhuleni was aware of the issue involving the theft of cigarettes by EMPD

South Africa
UK-registered, Egyptian-founded customer experience platform Tactful AI has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its end-to-end, AI-driven customer service infrastructure built on agentic AI capabilities. The round was co-led by UAE-based venture capital firm Foras AI and investment firm M Empire. Deep-tech angel investors also participated, including Omar Gabr,...

World
A catalogue of incidents at the world’s most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.

World
In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was “disproportionate.”

World
The 84-year-old mother of news anchor Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home two weeks ago.

World
Under President Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.

Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the army will work with the police to fight organised crime and illegal mining.

Africa
Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya, prompting the border to be closed.

Africa
Search efforts are continuing for the missing passengers, who included children.

Africa
Madagascar’s disaster management says roads are inaccessible with trees uprooted, power poles down and ninety percent of roofs ripped off.

Business
Martin Lewis explains why now might be a good time to think about changing your bank account.

Business
Boardwalk Mall is undergoing a large expansion, with the mall set to get padel courts and 5-a-side soccer facility.

Business
Yuko Yamaguchi oversaw the feline character’s rise to to global icon status.

Business
Prices rose by 2.4% in the year to January, the latest official figures show, the slowest pace since May.

Politics
Mbeki seeks an order that President Cyril Ramaphosa terminate Justice Sisi Khampepe’s appointment

Politics
For the first time in several years, electricity did not dominate the president’s address

Politics
It’s alleged that Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department specialised unit officers stole a truck in 2023

Politics
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the country to unite amid the many issues the country faces.

Sport
Aryansh Sharma’s unbeaten 74 bolsters United Arab Emirates’s hopes of qualifying for the T20 World Cup Super 8s with a tense five-wicket win over Canada.

Sport
Red Bull’s advantage at the front of the Formula 1 field “has been really eye-opening for a lot of us,” says Mercedes driver George Russell.

Sport
Bowler Brad Wheal says proving lower-ranked teams deserve more opportunities is a greater motivation for Scotland than getting one over England.

Sport
Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts travel to Ibrox in the game of the weekend, while Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jim Goodwin are also in focus
Education
Public schools are expected to reopen on Wednesday for 50,000 students in the city. Teachers demanded higher wages and health care benefits.

Education
Advice on how to respond to students questioning their birth gender has been updated. Here are the key changes
Ministers have released updated guidance on how schools and colleges in England should respond to students who are questioning their birth gender. How is it different to the previous Department for Education (DfE) guidance, released under the Conservatives in 2023?
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Education
[New Dawn] – In a significant boost to access to safe drinking water and improved learning conditions, the Rotary Club of Gbarnga, in partnership with Humanity Care Liberia, has officially broken ground on a solar-powered well at the government-run John Flomo Bakalu High School in Gbarnga, Bong County.
Education
Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year.
Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
The long-talked-about 2026 SASSA unemployment grant will finally go ahead, confirms President Ramaphosa at SONA. But how much will it cost?

Lifestyle
A nature reserve in Cape Town has made history after it unveiled SA’s first Braille coastal environmental education signage.

Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 14 February 2026

Entertainment
Police launch probe into graphic video of suspected e-hailing driver murder, urge public not to share footage

Entertainment
Floodwaters have submerged more than 100 000 hectares, destroying crops and displacing families.
Entertainment

Science/Tech
Remember when dropping a proxy into your torrent client felt like a secret handshake? In 2026 streaming giants block whole IP ranges, ISPs throttle P2P, and privacy rules keep shifting. That climate turns a VPN-plus-SOCKS5 bundle from nicety to necessity. The proxy speeds one app—qBittorrent or your scraper—while the VPN tunnel shields everything else. Only […]
Science/Tech
Waymo’s autonomous vehicles can transport passengers across six cities without a human driver, but the Alphabet-owned company has discovered that its cars become completely inert if a passenger accidentally leaves a door open. The company confirmed that it is now paying DoorDash drivers in Atlanta to close these doors as part of a pilot program. A Reddit post from a DoorDash driver showed an...

Science/Tech
Hong Kong, SAR Central District — BDIC, Blockchain Deposit Insurance Corporation, a crypto insurance provider, today announced the commercial launch of AgentCover Pro, a first-of-its-kind crypto insurance product specifically engineered to protect payments executed by agentic AI systems. Comments from the company detailed how AgentCover Pro delivers modular coverage across agent failures,...
Science/Tech
theodp writes: West Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday introduced House Bill 5387 (PDF), which would repeal the state’s recently enacted mandatory stand-alone computer science graduation requirement and replace it with a new computer literacy proficiency requirement. Not too surprisingly, the Bill is being opposed by tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which lobbied for the WV CS graduation requirement...

Motoring
These were the five biggest stories in South Africa’s transport industry this week.
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
Health
Proponents of vaccines warn that the efforts will further dismantle the immunization infrastructure and lead to more outbreaks of disease.
Health
Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.
Health
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.

Health
Backlog drops below 7.3m for first time since 2023 in England, but concern over long A&E waits.