The United States could oversee Venezuela and control its oil revenue for ‌years, President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Thursday.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it plans to have a bilateral meeting with the National Freedom Party to discuss the implications of the NFP’s decision to withdraw from the government of provincial unity.

South Africa’s white and yellow maize futures have slid to four-year lows as a stronger rand, global oversupply and La Niña rains collide. Cheaper maize should cool food inflation and feed costs, easing pressure on consumers and cattle farmers. But for grain producers, lower prices squeeze already thin, capital-intensive margins.

The Foodie’s Wife, who is not easily impressed, pronounced this ‘brilliant’. If that isn’t a recommendation, I don’t know what is.

South Africa’s municipal electricity debt crisis is often reduced to a familiar story: failing councils, weak billing systems, political interference and a culture of non-payment. There is truth in that, but it is incomplete.

Nearly 900,000 Grade 12s who wrote the 2025 NSC exams are on the edge of their seats. Minister Siviwe Gwarube will announce the results on 12 January 2026, with individual access from 13 January. Whether you pass, need a re-mark or hope to explore alternatives, here’s everything you need to know.

With Knysna’s main dam hovering at critically low levels, residents of the popular tourist town in the Western Cape have been warned that water rationing could soon become unavoidable, as authorities scramble to avert a full-blown water crisis.

Landowners around Stanford in the Western Cape have been warned to “prepare for any eventuality” and be ready for active firefighting, as a wildfire blazes across the area.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Aidarous al-Zubaidi, the head of a group of southern separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates, fled Yemen by boat before boarding an aircraft to Mogadishu that landed at a military airport in Abu Dhabi.

Two people were killed and several injured in a shooting outside a funeral at a church in the Utah capital of Salt Lake City, police said on Wednesday.

Johannesburg Metro Police Department officials have cleared a hijacked property in Bryanston, Johannesburg, of wendy houses and shacks, and have arrested the alleged hijacker.

NASA is considering a rare early return of an astronaut and its crew from the International Space Station (ISS) over an unspecified medical issue, hours after cancelling a planned spacewalk that had been scheduled for Thursday, the agency said.