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Sunak faces criticism as major Tory donor knighted
Businessman Mohamed Mansour has been given a knighthood, along with Mark Spencer and Philip Davies.
FRIDAY, 29 MARCH 2024, 10:05
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Businessman Mohamed Mansour has been given a knighthood, along with Mark Spencer and Philip Davies.
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An 8-year-old girl is said to be the sole survivor of a bus crash in South Africa that killed at least 45 people.
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Christians eat fish on Good Friday. But in Cape Town the fish is almost always smothered in a sweet curried sauce – and
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Authorities in Velyka Pysarivka and surrounding frontier villages recorded 567 attacks over two weeks.
South Africa
Batohi says that the NPA holds the rule of law.
South Africa
Situation has worsened in Gaza.
South Africa
The passengers were travelling from Gaborone in Botswana.
South Africa
High traffic volumes are expected as holidaymakers travel to various destinations.
World
Historic numbers of animals across the globe have become endangered or pushed to extinction. But some of these species sit in limbo — not definitively extinct yet missing from the scientific record. Rediscovering a “lost” species is not easy. It can require trips to remote areas and canvassing a large area in search of only a handful of animals. But new technology and stronger partnerships...
World
The film’s release in Japan, more than eight months after it opened in the U.S., had been watched with trepidation because of the sensitivity of the subject matter.
World
Five Lebanese Hezbollah fighters are said to be among the dead in the attacks in the Aleppo area.
World
Authorities say Ansari died of a cardiac arrest but the circumstances of his death are disputed by his family.
Africa
In the first three months of this year, about 190 schools have been closed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.
Africa
Joseph Boakai tells the BBC he is trying to change the mindset of those who think government is a way to get rich.
Africa
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio delivered the annual lecture in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the US, this week.
Africa
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, speaks to the BBC.
Business
FSCA is issuing hefty fines in its hopes of addressing the issues that saw South Africa grey listed in the first place.
Business
Business Talk – Xero Country Manager Colin Timmis on how Xero’s cloud accounting software benefits South African entrepreneurs
Business
The Spiritual Crime Prevention Forum has advised churches in South Africa to increase security measures ahead of the Easter weekend.
Business
Municipality blames taxi violence, but Ngqamakhwe’s local taxi association says the facility was never finished.
Politics
Tselane says Pillay’s decision was taken to protect the integrity of IEC.
Politics
Zuma has suffered a sixth legal loss in his bid to privately prosecute Downer and Maughan
Politics
DA leader John Steenhuisen’s assertion that new political parties are political mercenaries displays his arrogance – the same arrogance that has cost the official opposition dearly in past elections, say analysts.
Politics
Political parties should safeguard the integrity of the May 29th national elections.
Sport
A Soweto giant has surprisingly turned to a Kaizer Chiefs outcast as their next transfer target, as they see his potential.
Sport
Dejounte Murray scores in the last second of overtime as the Atlanta Hawks record a second successive win against the Boston Celtics.
Sport
The 2023/24 season is slowly edging to its end. Kaizer Chiefs will face another transfer window with high expectations to sign top players.
Sport
Kaizer Chiefs could be set to lose out to European interests according to the latest PSL transfer rumours.
Education
Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for
Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education. Academics by their nature don’t look outwards...
Education
Union says cuts will make the ‘creative powerhouse’ unrecognisable and risk ‘unprecedented industrial unrest’
Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London have voted to strike over plans for an “almost incomprehensible” number of redundancies, a trade union has announced.
More than 87% of University and College Union (UCU) members at the south London institution voted for strike action in a ballot...
Education
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
Education
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA — Japan needs to expand and deepen its diplomatic and economic relations with Ethiopia through education and people-to-people ties, the country’s ambassador said.
Lifestyle
Sniffer dogs detect drugs in public areas but aren’t perfect, potentially signaling false positives or missing actual drugs.
Lifestyle
‘I’m back in the building’: DJ Sbu is once again an employer at the SABC. This comes after he was fired almost 10 years ago.
Lifestyle
Natalie Dormer confessed her love for Cape Town after filming ‘White Lies’ in an exclusive interview with ‘The South African’.
Lifestyle
The latest in fashion trends, design, beauty and health news.
Entertainment
Entertainment
Artists, music lovers, media colleagues and honoured guests got together for the unveiling of the Metro FM Music Awards 2024 nominees on Wednesday evening in Bryanston, Johannesburg.
Entertainment
Winners of each category will receive R50 000. The Song of the Year winner will walk away with R150 000.
Entertainment
Ahead of the Easter Weekend, Spotify released figures that reveal that young people are big consumers of faith music.
Science/Tech
University lecturer specialising in energy, Steven Mathetsa, argues that South Africa’s new energy plan needs a mix of nuclear, gas, renewables and coal.
Science/Tech
Apple has sued its former employee Andrew Aude for leaking information about more than a half-dozen Apple products and policies, including its then-unannounced Journal app and Vision Pro headset, product development policies, strategies for regulatory compliance, employee headcounts, and more. MacRumors reports: Aude joined Apple as an iOS software engineer in 2016, shortly after graduating...
Science/Tech
Microsoft is also rolling out a feature that alerts users when a model makes things up or generates erroneous responses.
Science/Tech
According to Bloomberg, the updated Pro models will get crisper new OLED displays, while the iPad Air will get a 12.9-inch screen option for the first time.
Motoring
Same engine moving bigger bakkie through the air will result in slower sprint time.
Motoring
Motoring
There were several international and local factors that contributed to the increases in petrol and diesel prices
Motoring
Toyota Hilux, Fortuner and Starlet the Japanese carmaker’s top three used models.
Health
Women with premenstrual disorders are much more likely to have birth-related depression, researchers say.
Health
Cases of trisomy 18 may rise as many states restrict abortion. But some women choose to have the babies, love them tenderly and care for them devotedly.
Health
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing.
Health
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
Nature
Plans to end lion breeding began more than a decade ago as the practice of releasing tame big cats into small enclosures and having them shot by hunters for a fee spawned the term ‘canned hunting’ and attracted international condemnation.
Nature
South Africa may import significant amounts of white maize, used to make a staple food, for the first time since 2017 as the El Niño weather pattern withers the crop
Nature
Nestle SA plans to spend R2.5 billion ($132 million) over the next five years to improve growth and development of emerging local businesses across East and Southern Africa.
Nature
South African farmers are expected to harvest 19.3% less maize in the 2023/2024 season compared with the previous one, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Tuesday.