The rise of AI tools is reshaping employment, with companies like Block laying off thousands to embrace leaner, more efficient teams, signalling a profound shift in the job market.

South Africa’s retail pain is back in focus. Truworths leans on Office UK while its local arm limps, and Spar’s supply-chain scars, franchisee loyalty slump and leadership shock deepen the turnaround risk. In the grocery market, price wars leave no hiding place.

When the new commissioner took over in 2019, the institution was hollowed out and mistrusted. Six years on, rising compliance and restored public trust point to a sustained institutional recovery.

An ecological island surrounded by urban sprawl, traffic jams and cappuccinos, Table Mountain is far from static. Ecologist Marna Herbst takes us inside the delicate, sometimes awkward business of managing wildlife surrounded by a city.

In the wake of Supreme Leader Khamenei’s assassination, Israel targets Tehran again, prompting a power transition within Iran’s leadership.

March 1 (Reuters) – The UAE has ordered its stock markets closed on Monday and Tuesday as the country reels from Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes, in a sign of the growing economic disruption sweeping the Gulf.

March 1 (Reuters) – Shipping companies Maersk MAERSKb.CO, Hapag-Lloyd HLAG.DE and CMA CGM are rerouting vessels around Africa, away from the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Yet again there is conflict between Iran, and the US and Israel. With the growing destruction in Iran and the killing of the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it is just possible for a new approach to Iran’s relationships to emerge.

The SA government has for many years faithfully defended Iran at the UN

As conflict erupts in the Middle East, South African travellers face flight suspensions and safety concerns — here’s what you need to know before you travel.