FIFA World Cup: Infantino defends high ticket prices
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South Africa’s last manganese smelter on the brink of shutting down
High electricity prices will force South Africa’s last operational manganese smelter to shut down without immediate government intervention.
News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Are we turning into an assassination nation? With Sikonathi Mantshantsha
Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24’s definitive podcast for in-depth reporting. This is The Lead, and this is the South African story.
News24 | New Year’s Eve weather: Cloudy, warm with isolated thunderstorms, hail in most parts
The South African Weather Service has warned of cloudy and warm conditions with thunderstorms, damaging winds, and hail in parts of Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the North West, Free State and Eastern Cape.
News24 | Protests erupt across Somalia after Israel’s world-first recognition of breakaway Somaliland
Protests have erupted across Somalia following Israel’s formal world-first recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland, with demonstrators taking to the streets in multiple cities, including the capital, Mogadishu.
RETRENCHMENTS: Transalloys to cut 600 jobs despite SA manganese market dominance
Transalloys has circulated section 189 letters to staff stating that 600 jobs are at risk if the smelter cannot get better deals on electricity supply.
NO WATER, NO FIREWORKS: Jeffreys Bay residents urged to conserve water as Kouga reservoirs at 20%
Communities in the Kouga Municipality are again battling with water shortages as the reservoirs supplied by Churchill Dam slowly dry up. The municipality has urged residents to save water and emphasised the prohibition of fireworks ahead of the New Year’s Eve celebrations.
JANU-WORRY: The quiet January shock — why household budgets tighten before salaries do
South African households face a predictable post-festive squeeze as debt, school fees and transport costs converge in early January, amplified by high household debt and structural timing gaps between income and essential expenses.
The best and worst Eskom CEOs since 2007
Eskom has had 14 CEOs and thousands of hours of load shedding since power cuts began in 2007.
News24 | UNICEF sounds alarm as 1 in 6 children suffer ‘severe acute malnutrition’ in Sudan
The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned of an “unprecedented level” of child malnutrition in the war-torn region of North Darfur and called for immediate access to children and families trapped by the conflict.
SMALL TOWN OF THE YEAR: We asked. You voted. And South Africa’s Best Small Town 2025 has emerged
Daily Maverick readers nominated their favourite small towns across South Africa — and the results are in.
News24 | Buffalo City’s ‘pristine’ Gonubie Beach reopens after sewage spill
Gonubie Beach, the Buffalo City Metro’s Blue Flag pilot site, has reopened to bathers following a sewage spill.
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2025: Gold medal in blundering as Lesufi’s amaPanyaza police Gauteng’s wallet, not its streets
Allegations of civilian assaults, extortion rackets and abuse of power had communities crying foul about Panyaza Lesufi’s crime wardens.
News24 | Gold rally, reserves see Zim’s currency claw back losses
Gold’s rally and a buildup in foreign-exchange reserves have helped Zimbabwe’s bullion-backed currency pare most of its decline against the dollar this year.
MENTAL FORTITUDE: Crank up Afcon performance or face early exit, Broos warns Bafana Bafana
Thus far at the Africa Cup of Nations, Bafana Bafana have not come to the party. They obtained the necessary results but the knockout phase will demand much more.