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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will speak to Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for an American leader that could roil US relations with China and maybe prompt more Chinese war games around the island.

As the national ANC officially inaugurated the party’s Eastern Cape provincial task team at the City Hall in KuGompo City late on Thursday, fresh warnings of legal action against the troubled party again emerged.

The host joined Sir Paul and the band to close out the show with a performance of the Beatles’ Hello, Goodbye.

Proceedings in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial are expected to resume on Friday.

The DA has questioned whether Didiza should recuse herself from the impeachment process.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile was answering oral questions in the National Assembly on Thursday.

The mayor says all documented foreign nationals need protection.

The United Nations expressed “grave concern” on Thursday about a new law issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government on separation in marriage which includes provisions on child marriage.

President Trump’s announcement stirred confusion in Europe following weeks of changing statements from his administration about reducing the American military footprint in Europe.

President Donald Trump and America’s top diplomat on Thursday again raised the specter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba, a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island’s former leader, Raúl Castro.

The body of Matthew Cameron Paton, 53, was found on Thursday, about 300m (984ft) down an abyss.

The sanctions come amid growing scrutiny of Tanzania’s human rights record in recent years.

Grieving relatives and friends of a suspected Ebola victim were prevented from taking his body for burial.

Mali is a landlocked country and depends heavily on fuel transported from neighbouring countries.

Nine deportees arrive from the US as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The luxury handbags sold in a government auction in Ho Chi Minh.

South African workers are among the more engaged globally, but growing uncertainty around job security, skills, and career growth is putting pressure on employers to respond with greater clarity and investment.

The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee has approved plans for affordable housing and mixed-use development on a municipal parking lot at the Cape Town Civic Centre.

Roelf Meyer handed over his credentials to President Donald Trump at the White House.

The ANC has opened mayoral nominations to the public, allowing non-members to apply or be nominated as it reshapes its candidate selection process ahead of the local elections

The FF Plus says the ANC has failed South Africans through poor governance.

It looks more likely that a few Kaizer Chiefs players will not catch the plane to the World Cup and here’s the reason why.

Form and fitness concerns are hanging over some of football’s biggest names just three weeks before FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off.

Here’s when the second leg of the CAF Champions League final between AS Far and Mamelodi Sundowns gets under way.

The New York Knicks score 18 unanswered points on the way to a 109-93 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers as they take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference final.

The NCA and NPCC say children should be blocked from accessing sites which do not stop them seeing nudes or being contacted by strangers.

If you want to win your share of the jackpot, you have to play! You know what they say, you’ve got to be in it, to win it.

Raising funds and setting a world record, all in one shared costume, are the goals of two runners participating in the Cape Town Marathon.

The South African Human Rights Commission is investigating Dis-Chem shareholder Mark Saltzman over hate speech.

SRD has been a lifeline to millions but soon the SASSA Livelihood Grant will take over the reins permanently. Here’s how it’ll work …

Fitch also affirmed Eskom’s senior unsecured debt.

Twin of the Indian-market Renault Duster, also coming to South Africa this year, will make its world premiere on 9 July.

Proposed regulations on boreholes have triggered fierce debate over water security, food production and economic impact.

The commission condemned the slur as one of the most painful and degrading in the country’s history.

Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But research points to a more complex reality. That is, the rise of “misfluencers”, individuals who shape how information is interpreted, shared and trusted across digital platforms. Whether acting deliberately or not, they tap into emotion, […]

Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in […]

GRANITE BAY, CA — HIPAA also requires healthcare providers and organizations to implement specific administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to secure electronic PHI (ePHI) against unauthorized access or breaches today and for many years ahead. By now most of us should have heard of the term harvest now decrypt later (HNDL) which refers to the […]

The number of melanoma skin cancer cases has risen above 20,000 a year for the first time in the UK.