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All eyes are on what could be a precedent-setting case at the Council for Medical Schemes as a former champion athlete takes his fight to Discovery Health Medical Scheme to get his cancer treatment paid for in full.

The National Financial Ombud Scheme (NFO) Banking Division recovered more than R60m for consumers in 2025, but warned that consumers who are dishonest when taking out loans or accessing credit cannot cry ‘reckless lending’ later.

Obesity is a big driver of healthcare spending in South Africa, yet most medical schemes still limit cover for effective treatments. The gap between the scale of the problem and the funding response is widening, with long-term consequences for patients, insurers and the public purse.

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Six people died, and sixteen others have been injured after a minibus taxi and a car collided head-on along the T30 road in Ngqeleni, near Mampondo, in the Eastern Cape.

The minister of communications’ move to bypass BEE rules for Starlink sparks controversy, challenging South Africa’s equity policies amid misleading data and potential threats to digital sovereignty.

The International Criminal Court on Monday rejected a challenge from Israel, which had argued that the court’s investigation into crimes committed in the Gaza Strip was invalid.

Vincent Magwenya also suggests local ownership law could be amended to accommodate would-be foreign ICT investors like Starlink.

Giant fists for children to use to punch each other, make-up containing “a laundry list of chemical ingredients”, and a 60-round capacity projector “Blaster” were just three of 10 toys named as the worst on the market this Christmas.

MK MPLs banged their fists on tables, stomped their feet, jabbed their fingers in the faces of police officers and sang Umshini Wami. The legislature was disrupted for more than an hour until Speaker Nontembeko Boyce called for a vote, and MK’s motion of no confidence in Premier Thami Ntuli was squashed.

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Eskom has quietly taken an important step in the roll-out of its long-awaited virtual wheeling product, awarding a significant contract in the past few weeks to Johannesburg-based Enerweb to build a software platform that will automate and scale the utility’s new wheeling model.

A Slovak-Australian woman was among 15 people killed in an attack on a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Slovak officials said on Monday.

The South African Weather Service has warned of hot and humid conditions in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, while isolated thunderstorms are forecast for other parts of the country.

Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested on Sunday evening and was being held on $4 million bail, booking information from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office showed.

The ANC Youth League’s 27th national congress at the University of Limpopo in Polokwane got off to a shambolic start.

The bank said all core banking app services have been restored, except for certain value-added services.