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Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Monday, 15 December 2025.
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Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Monday, 15 December 2025.

The once-bustling Thaba ‘Nchu Airport, opened in 1988 as one of Bophuthatswana’s flagship infrastructure projects, now stands as a stark symbol of a local economy that has long since stalled.
American director Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead at their southern California mansion.
The Western Cape Department of Social Development has received an extra R34.2-million in its adjustment budget, redirecting funds to the care of older people, targeted support for young people and digital systems for social workers.
A Holocaust survivor and a local rabbi were named on Monday among 15 people killed in a mass shooting that targeted a Jewish celebration on Australia’s Bondi Beach.
Paramilitary activity in KwaZulu-Natal and a cop secretly working with American intelligence. These claims fit into an expanding law-enforcement scandal that’s obliterating careers and exposing how fractured South Africa’s crime-fighting system has become. Daily Maverick’s Caryn Dolley explains.
A routine crime-prevention operation in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain, last Thursday unexpectedly turned into a moment of compassion that has since captured widespread attention – after a video showing South African Police Service officers handing out ice lollies to children went viral.
LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6, will warn that Russia poses an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” threat, in her first speech since taking office.
SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Two alleged gunmen who killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach were a father and son, police said on Monday, as Australia began mourning victims of its worst gun violence in almost 30 years.
Daily Maverick columnist Stephen Grootes believes SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago deserves to be named Person of the Year for his bold move to lower South Africa’s inflation target — an achievement set to ease the cost of living and benefit millions of South Africans for years to come.
Two high-level hearings are investigating accusations that a drug trafficking cartel has infiltrated South Africa’s law enforcement and politics. The combined proceedings have laid bare distrust among the country’s law enforcers and revealed some traits of the individuals implicated in the scandal.
A blaze consuming nearly half a tonne of lion remains exposed both the cruelty of the captive-breeding industry and the political turmoil threatening to revive it.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Law enforcement personnel detained a “person of interest” who was found in a Rhode Island hotel after the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine wounded at the Ivy League school as students took exams before winter break, authorities said on Sunday.
BERLIN/KYIV, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Ukraine has relinquished its aim to join the NATO military alliance in exchange for Western security guarantees as a compromise to end the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday as peace talks got underway in Berlin.
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The corruption and capture exposed by the Special Investigating Unit at Tembisa Hospital should not be used as a justification to deny South Africans universal health coverage, the health minister insists.
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