THURSDAY, 23 APRIL 2026, 02:04
As AI adoption accelerates, organisations are rethinking the network infrastructure required to support data-intensive workload. Against this backdrop, Huawei’s OptiX Club 2026, hosted in Johannesburg focused on the role of optical networks in enabling faster, smarter digital environments. The event brought together more than 120 customers, partners and industry stakeholders to explore how AI...
South Africa’s industrial policy debate often revolves around targets – ownership thresholds, localisation quotas, supplier development metrics and transformation scorecards. These are the ceilings of the system: visible, measurable and politically resonant. What receives far less attention is the floor. According to Thabo Moodie, chief operations officer at Oricred, the recurring fragility...
Eight years ago, South Africa lost one of its most recognisable and polarising political figures. Now, a new docuseries aims to shed light on the life and struggle of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told through candid conversations she had with her granddaughters.
There’s fun to be had, tears to be spilled and a whole lot of existential angst in Stupid Fucking Bird, a cheeky retelling of Chekhov’s The Seagull through a contemporary, frequently flippant, and thoroughly meta lens.
21 April marks World Creativity and Innovation Day — a day recognised by the UN to celebrate creation. In light of this, Sara Grobbelaar highlights a recurring pattern in the healthcare system. South Africa spends billions on imported health technology while broken equipment sits idle in public wards. The cycle is not inevitable but breaking it will take more than good intentions
At the launch of the Reading and Literacy Strategy 2026–30, reading was framed as fundamental to the entire schooling experience. The notion that reading is the air that we breathe captures this succinctly.
South Africa and Mexico are almost identically priced as travel destinations, which is excellent news if you are tired of the dollar eating your lunch.
April 20 (Reuters) – Soccer fans heading to Philadelphia for the World Cup will be able to take advantage of free transport after all six matches in the city, Philadelphia Soccer 2026 said on Monday, thanks to a partnership with travel rental platform Airbnb.
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) – Iran is considering attending peace talks with the United States in Pakistan, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday, following moves by Islamabad to end a U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, a significant obstacle to Tehran rejoining peace efforts as the end of a two-week ceasefire approaches.
Emperor penguins have just been declared endangered, pushed towards collapse by the reduction of sea ice. But another pressure is growing fast: a surge in Antarctic tourism that adds emissions, noise and disturbance to a species already under threat.
Twenty-four civil society organisations have joined forces to demand urgent, coordinated action on a disease that is now the country’s leading cause of natural death, and to hold themselves accountable, too.
For nearly seven days, taps in Chiawelo, Protea, and parts of Dlamini ran dry – an inconvenience reaching even President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Soweto family home. Joburg Water said it was cleaning the Chiawelo Reservoir, forcing residents to scrounge for water.
Eight years ago, South Africa lost one of its most recognisable and polarising political figures. Now, a new docuseries aims to shed light on the life and struggle of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, told through candid conversations she had with her granddaughters.
The ANC says it will widen its mayoral selection pool beyond its own ranks and intensify public participation in Johannesburg. The party says it is campaigning on governance delivery rather than ‘theatrics’.
A secret 2004 report detailing the findings of the Amnesty Task Team appointed by former president Thabo Mbeki to address the unfinished business of Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions contemplated amending the Constitution to allow ‘backdoor’ amnesties.
Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department boss Julius Mkhwanazi has been implicated at the Madlanga Commission, but the charges he faced on Monday, along with city manager Kagiso Lerutla, arise from a 2019 speeding case involving an alleged stand-in and R400,000.
Suspended City of Tshwane CFO Gareth Mnisi faced a bruising barrage of questions at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, but his answers boxed him into a corner and exposed cracks in his testimony.