Marketing expert warns creatives to dare to do the uncomfortable, if they are to make it in the cutthroat industry.

The broadcaster has seen a significant decline in its South African subscribers over the past two years.

South African equities have delivered world-leading returns in 2025, boosting wealth and state finances despite weak SA-focused stocks and the country’s declining mining capacity.

Spotlight this week offers a festive banquet of storytelling, from hopping on a fun family big-screen animated adventure to a local comedy at cinemas, plus a closer look at a documentary about a barefoot ballet protégé from the dirt roads of Lagos.

The Hawks in Gauteng are seeking assistance in finding the people who murdered Sgt Nonjabulo Sharon Mogale, a police officer who was ambushed and gunned down in August 2021 while doing crime prevention operations in Tembisa.

President Tinubu’s tenure has become a theatre of contradictions, marked not by vision or reform but by failures that expose the hollowness of his leadership

Member States creating a regional identity built from lived experience rather than official agreements

The minister of public works, Dean Macpherson, says his department is making headway in tackling the so-called construction mafia.

The auditor-general’s report on Greater North Transport in Limpopo revealed significant financial mismanagement, including irregular expenditure and a R5.9m irregularity in a security contract.

The Minister of Electricity has approved a plan to establish a new State-Owned Entity to oversee energy trading in the wholesale electricity market.

While most South Africans support a racially representative workforce, they also say that hiring should be merit-based and that BEE has gone too far and race categories do more harm than good.

Stats SA says poverty in the country has declined by 8.8% since 2006. However, 23 million people were still considered poor in 2023 using the food poverty line.