Joburg CBD businesses suffer more than 50% drop in sales due to days of blackout
Businesses in the Johannesburg CBD are feeling the impact of the power outage affecting the inner-city, with most losing more than 50% of sales.
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Businesses in the Johannesburg CBD are feeling the impact of the power outage affecting the inner-city, with most losing more than 50% of sales.
Timing is everything in Formula One and Jonathan Wheatley reckons he got his right in leaving Red Bull, the team with the most race wins and drivers’ titles this century, to become principal of Sauber.
The previous incident drew harsh criticism from Kim Jong Un and led to the arrest of four officials.
Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to cut off government contracts to Elon Musk’s companies and the world’s richest man suggested the US president should be impeached, marking a stark end to an unlikely alliance and leaving onlookers wondering what was next.
This week’s edition Friday Briefing reflects on whether a new inquiry into apartheid-era crimes will finally bring closure to hundreds of families who are still seeking answers.
Full restoration of the North Korean navy destroyer is expected before a major communist party meeting later this month.
“They told us we’d be qualified for jobs in law enforcement and security. But when the programme ended, we didn’t get certificates and the training providers vanished.”
Asian shares were subdued on Friday as investors hunkered down for the all-important payrolls report, while Tesla suffered huge losses on the very public feud between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
Food firms are marketing ranges with fewer ingredients, but are they healthier?
These are the key events on day 1,198 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Elon Musk suggests Donald Trump should be impeached, as US president says the former DOGE adviser ‘went CRAZY’.
North Korea has launched a warship that was damaged in May upon its attempted first launch, state media KCNA reported on Friday.
Bolivian Senate leader Andronico Rodriguez is eligible to run in the nation’s presidential elections later this year, a constitutional court confirmed on Thursday, while former President Evo Morales remains out of the running.
How could the government resist? It’s a honeypot fed by gambling addicts or poor people pushed into a corner, writes Tom Eaton
The death of a Nigerian content moderator based in Kenya earlier this year underscores the urgency of the crisis, writes Mashilo Boloka
The Comrades is not just about the 22,000 runners who participate in the gruelling ultra marathon
About $22 billion worth of SpaceX’s government contracts is at risk and multiple U.S. space programs could face dramatic changes in the fallout of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s explosive feud on Thursday.
A federal jury in Texas on Thursday acquitted the first migrant tried for entering one of the new military zones on the U.S.-Mexico border, marking a legal challenge to the Trump administration plan to raise penalties for illegal crossings.
The Ivy League university has expanded an existing lawsuit to include Trump’s latest actions to restrict student body.
Handwritten notes show the wartime prime minister’s frustration over slow penicillin production.