This is the first big public statement by the business community as the local government elections loom in November, and its tone and timing underline the mounting frustration within the private sector over the city’s pothole-ridden decay.

South Africa’s electric vehicle market is still small, expensive and short of the policy firepower seen in faster-moving countries. But the argument for EVs is no longer only about climate virtue or shiny motoring tech. Increasingly, it is about maths.

A major survey of Angola’s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa’s most exciting biodiversity frontiers.

Having narrowly escaped extinction in the 19th century, the black wildebeest now faces a different threat: being genetically absorbed by the far more numerous blue wildebeest. Researchers are using cutting-edge genomic tools to determine whether hybridisation is quietly eroding the genetic identity of one of South Africa’s endemic species.

A Supreme Court of Appeal ruling in October 2025 cleared the way for specially trained and permitted pharmacists to dispense antiretroviral medicines without a doctor’s script. Seven months later, no pharmacists are providing these services yet. Spotlight explores the reasons for the delay.

What we spend on our pets has gone past R10-billion, and astonishingly, this economy is growing by 15%. But the reasons are obvious – and retail chains paying serious attention.

Here are the Daily Lotto results.

After a harrowing knife attack on Gqeberha’s beachfront, DA MP Baxolile Nodada warns of rising crime rates and demands action to restore safety in the community.

The MK Party has yet again tweaked its leadership structures, deploying its senior national leaders to Mpumalanga and the North West to bolster its electoral fortunes ahead of the local government elections on 4 November.

The research says delays, withdrawals and poor case management are to blame for the poor performance by specialised commercial crime courts.