The 26 players who will represent South Africa at the 2026 Fifa World Cup have been revealed. In total six players were cut from the preliminary squad, with one of those unfortunate to miss out being Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Brandon Petersen. Coach Hugo Broos has explained his some of his choices.
He has an assignment with former three-weight world champ, Gideon “Hardcore” Buthelezi, in July.“So, ja, tomorrow will be a normal day – I will get up early, go for a run and I will definitely be involved in a sparring session at 11am.”
At present, most policy responses remain fragmented. Governments focus on border enforcement, documentation systems, policing and short-term political responses. Yet these interventions rarely address the structural drivers behind migration flows
On World Hunger Day on 28 May, it is important to point out that more than one in five people in Africa go hungry today, and nearly six in 10 face moderate or severe food insecurity.
He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it no longer serves human development; it begins to reshape society according to its own logic
Russia said on Thursday it had summoned the ambassador to Luxembourg to protest against the exhumation of the remains of Andriy Melnyk, a Ukrainian nationalist leader during World War Two whom Moscow described as a “Nazi collaborator.”
Israel’s Wix.com WIX.O, which helps small businesses build and operate websites, is laying off 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami said on Thursday, citing a strong shekel versus the dollar ILS= and the rapid evolution of AI.
France will reimburse the cost of weight-loss drugs prescribed to severely obese patients from mid-June in a first for a European Union country, Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on Thursday.
Italy’s finance police on Thursday said they had seized assets and companies worth more than €200 million ($232 million) in an investigation into the laundering of drug trafficking proceeds linked to late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.
Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, Chief Whip of the MK party, and one of its three representatives on Parliament’s Impeachment Committee, faces a fraud charge linked to allegations that parliamentary researchers were forced to surrender large portions of their salaries.
South Africa’s deepening hunger crisis reflects more than rising food prices – it exposes an economic system in which wages, social grants and employment conditions increasingly fail to meet basic living costs. Austerity, precarious work and weak social protection have created a growing class of “working poor”, and unchecked inequality and food insecurity threaten long-term social stability.