Although a holiday week in South Africa inevitably means subdued activity in local company news, there were still some juicy stories that came through.
Dr Hayley Clements, one of the participants in an upcoming Tipping Points webinar, reveals that sub-Saharan Africa has lost a quarter of its biodiversity, stressing the need for inclusive conservation strategies that empower local communities.
Trump threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz. And, NASA’s Artemis II crew prepares to make its closest approach to the moon.
Iran’s top officials pushed back against President Trump’s deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz, striking a defiant tone as the warring sides traded missile attacks.
The Green Drop Report for 2025, assessing wastewater management across South Africa, shows a concerning increase in the number of wastewater systems in critical condition.
Stats SA’s latest quarterly employment survey shows that the average monthly salary in South Africa increased to R29,690 in the fourth quarter of the year.
Soweto giants Kaizer Chiefs have moved up to third place on the Betway Premiership log, thanks to a 3-1 win over Orbit College at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
Government officials and anti-government activists alike denounced the attacks on the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, the latest Iranian center for higher education to be targeted.
[Nyasa Times] A bitter and fast-escalating internal revolt has erupted within the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM), exposing deep fractures, simmering anger, and explosive allegations of financial mismanagement that now threaten to tear the union apart from within.
The second quarter of 2026 has opened with a fascinating divide in the crypto market, as retail enthusiasm for meme coins meets the institutional expansion of decentralized finance. While traders analyze the latest Pepe price prediction to catch the next viral wave and monitor the Hyperliquid price for signs of institutional stability, a third narrative […]
More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2024, about 31% of Americans were part of the upper middle class, up from about 10% in 1979, according to a report released...
With funding from ARPA-H, three teams of researchers have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in animal studies. Human trials are not far off.
While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.