TUESDAY, 13 JANUARY 2026, 04:30
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The National Freedom Party (NFP) has suspended its KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson, Mbali Shinga.
As the rand weakens and markets stagnate, South Africans are increasingly investing in luxury watches, jewellery, and handbags as alternative assets.
ANC Women’s League president Sisisi Tolashe has declared 2026 as the year in which the league reclaims its throne as the bedrock of the movement, by lobbying for a woman to lead the ANC.
Tensions within the African National Congress’s structures have deepened after the ANC Youth League president accused some senior party leaders of being “detached from reality.”
School placement issues are perennial and systemic. This is unacceptable in a context where thousands of parents and learners remain anxious about securing places in schools. An urgent response and clear plan ought to be in place to deal with what is clearly a foreseeable and recurring crisis every year.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has called for the immediate removal of experience requirements for entry-level positions, arguing that young job seekers should be allowed to gain necessary skills while on the job.
The 2025 matric results will be available on News24 from 13 January
As interest rates ease and affordability improves, more South Africans are re-evaluating offshore investing and turning back to local property.
The DA has condemned Gauteng’s Education Department for leaving thousands of learners unplaced with the school year only days away, but the DA-run Western Cape is struggling with the same crisis.
Data shows that sick pay rates in South Africa are among the best in Africa, with employees earning an average of R1,863.29 in mandatory sick pay for a week off.
One day between Christmas and New Year, Marita van der Vyver headed to Paris to become a flaneuse for a day – a quiet presence on the streets, taking everything in, in the footsteps of writers who went before. She wrote this piece on her Substack.
Residents of Stanford in the Western Cape have been urged to prepare for possible evacuation, as a fire spreads across the area.
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Moving house may also mean needing a new air fryer. And will you even need that old microwave oven? Heck no – we didn’t even keep the toaster.
These frozen pepper steak pies went straight from the freezer into a preheated air fryer. But does the timing on the packet instructions work?
US President Donald Trump said he had canceled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela following cooperation from the South American nation.
A “serious medical condition” with a crew member aboard the International Space Station has led NASA to bring the astronaut and three crewmates back to Earth months earlier than planned, the first such emergency return in the orbiting laboratory’s 25-year history, senior space agency officials said.
US President Donald Trump wished “best of luck” to Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a long-time ally, in his election campaign, in a letter Orban posted on his Facebook page on Friday.
South African motorists are being warned about a surge in scam SMS and WhatsApp messages claiming unpaid traffic fines, which use fake payment links to defraud victims.
The Russian military said it had fired its hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in Ukraine in response to what it described as an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences last month, which Kyiv has denied.