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Key figure in Mandelson vetting row will not appear to give evidence to MPs
The Foreign Affairs Committee says Ian Collard will only be giving evidence in writing.
SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 2026, 20:03

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The Foreign Affairs Committee says Ian Collard will only be giving evidence in writing.

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Two goals in stoppage time and pitch invasions by both sets of fans. The last day of the National League season lived up to its billing.

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Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, from Essex, dies in hospital after a collision on Argyll Street in Soho.

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Police said two boys, aged one and three, died at the scene.

South Africa
Diepkloof residents say they have had no electricity since Monday.

South Africa
A Cairo-based artificial intelligence startup has released Horus 1.0-4B, a fully open-source large language model built in Egypt that outperforms several significantly larger global models on multilingual and Arabic-language benchmarks, in what developers describe as only the second open-source Egyptian AI model released in recent years. TokenAI, founded by developer Assem Sabry, released the...

South Africa
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has overseen the launch of The Spine, a mega development in New Cairo described as an AI-powered cognitive city that its developers say will contribute approximately 1% of Egypt’s gross domestic product and create more than 150,000 jobs. The project is led by Talaat Moustafa Group in partnership with the […]

South Africa
Orange Egypt has signed a memorandum of understanding with smart urban developer Paragon Adeer and global innovation platform Plug and Play to launch Egypt’s first artificial intelligence campus at the Sumou Boulevard development in New Cairo, with a four-year program targeting the development of 100 growth-stage AI startups by 2030. The agreement was signed at […]

World
The two Americans who reportedly worked for the CIA died in a car crash after a Mexican-led operation to destroy a drug lab.

World
More than 500 political prisoners are thought to still be in jail, despite the releases since the amnesty law was brought in.

World
The 300 couples were selected in a draw of nearly 2,000 people to be a part of the joint celebration.

World
Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali’s capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.

Africa
Piracy, once notorious in this stretch of the Indian Ocean, has made a comeback in recent years.

Africa
Michael Eneramo, who won 10 caps for the Super Eagles, dies aged 40 after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a friendly game.

Africa
What court papers and sources close to the investigation have told the BBC about the scope of the plan.

Africa
A Ghanaian national was confronted by South Africans in a viral clip and questioned about his immigration status.

Business
More middle-class South Africans are turning away from the Western Cape for property.

Business
Faerie Glen Shopping Centre in Pretoria is undergoing a significant redevelopment, with the mall set to add a new restaurant hub.

Business
Freeway Toyota in Johannesburg has rolled out a fully integrated café at its dealership as part of a broader vision to enhance the branch experience.
Business

Politics
Phadi was officially announced by the party’s leader Herman Mashaba in eMalahleni on Saturday

Politics
Advocate Mojanku Gumbi will deliver Nkadimeng’s memorial lecture at the University of Limpopo.

Politics
Premier Thami Ntuli has highlighted the importance of safety in communities.

Politics
The IEC leadership has been on a week-long engagement with stakeholders in KZN

Sport
Manchester City head coach Andree Jeglertz brushes off a setback in his team’s WSL title pursuit, but Arsenal could soon be breathing down their necks.

Sport
Liverpool will have to “wait and see” whether Mohamed Salah has played his final game for the club, says manager Arne Slot.

Sport
Wolves manager Rob Edwards says his team “gave their all” but will have to “dust ourselves down and go again,” as his side are beaten 1-0 at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League.

Sport
The way matches are scored in badminton will change from next year following a vote by the sport’s world governing body.

Education
Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional
Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands’ most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit.
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Education
Logan David Patterson, 18, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 21, pleaded guilty for the November incident in which they set off a commercial firework in a research lab.
Education
Guidelines for the art contest, sponsored by the group Freedom 250, include material about abolitionists and civil rights leaders, but little mention of what they fought against.
Education
[FrontPageAfrica] Capitol Hill — The House of Representatives has decided on two key issues – endorsing the Joint Committee on Lands, Mines and Energy; and Natural Resources and Environment following of an investigation into complaints filed against H&K Mining Company and Huren Mining Company in Bong County Electoral District #3, and then passed into law the Paynesville School System Act of 2026.

Lifestyle
South Africans have criticised the casting of British actress Cynthia Erivo in the role of the late singer, Miriam Makeba…

Lifestyle
That winning feeling? Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus is enjoying his downtime just weeks before the official fixtures kick off…

Lifestyle
South Africans are spending more on weight-loss medicine while still making room for coffee, takeaways and small rewards.

Lifestyle
Cape Town, Durban and Joburg restaurant nominees for the 2026 South Africa Restaurant Awards have been revealed…

Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories of Saturday, 25 April 2026 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.

Entertainment
Lady X has worked with artists such as DJ Maphorisa, Black Motion, Mo Flava, and Tyler ICU to name a few.

Entertainment
The Joburg-based side still have two regular season games remaining, against Leinster and Munster in Ireland.

Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 26 April 2026.
Science/Tech
“Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers,” reads the pull request. And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request “to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem,” reports Phoronix, “and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters.” This was the code suggested for...
Science/Tech
It’s the U.S. government’s main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic’s “Mythos”. To run it they’d hired Collin Burns, who’d worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But Burns started work Monday at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation — and then “was pushed out Thursday by the White House, according to...
Science/Tech
The Free Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Manager published a blog post this week to explicitly state that”Responsible AI” Licenses (RAIL) are nonfree and unethical. The licenses restrict AI and ML software “from being used in a specific list of harmful applications,” according to the license’s web site, “e.g. in surveillance and crime prediction.” (The license’s steering...
Science/Tech
Intel’s stock price soared 24% Friday. It’s the stock’s largest single-day spike since since October 1987, reports CNBC, “as investors cheered signs of renewed growth due to mounting artificial intelligence demand.”The stock closed at $82.57 and is now up 124% this year after jumping 84% in 2025. Friday’s rally topped a 23% gain for the stock on Sept. 18, when Nvidia agreed to invest $5 billion...

Motoring
There are a few double-cab bakkies available in South Africa for less than R400,000.

Motoring
Nissan plans to ramp up production in Egypt after leaving South Africa.

Motoring
The price difference between South Africa’s two cheapest electric cars is only R2,000.

Motoring
These were the five biggest stories in South Africa’s transport industry this week.
Health
A once-robust H.I.V. treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble.

Health
Hattie Underwood is a recovered alcoholic and she told 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty how she used delivery apps to “anonymise” her alcohol consumption.
Health
Calley Means remained president of a company that relied on health savings accounts last year as the Trump administration developed policies to expand them.

Health
There are currently 687,958 people waiting for any type of NHS treatment in Wales.