
PSL Transfers: All Orlando Pirates stars who joined Sundowns
Monnapule Saleng became the EIGHTH player to directly join Sundowns from Orlando Pirates in the PSL era. Who are the others?
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Monnapule Saleng became the EIGHTH player to directly join Sundowns from Orlando Pirates in the PSL era. Who are the others?

South Africa’s fragile, consumer-led economic recovery is at risk of being derailed by a global slowdown due to the country’s high exposure to external factors and weak fixed investment.

The ANC SG vowed that an ANC-led government would prioritise nationalising the SARB and implementing land expropriation without compensation.
Trump tears up international law. The NDPP appointment redeems a flawed process. And sweet and sour pork with lychees brings the flavour. All in the weekly wrap.

Trump’s refugee programme has approved over 1000 South Africans, including Black people, under an ‘Afrikaner’ classification. This begs the question: who gets to decide what an Afrikaner actually is?

South Africans planning to leave the country permanently must deregister as tax residents with SARS through a complex financial emigration process to avoid unexpected taxes and compliance issues.

Motorists have been told not to yield, move from a traffic lane, or be forced off the road by any vehicle displaying white flashing lights.
The National Freedom Party is the kingmaker in KZN, but after the failed attempt to oust the provincial government, it’s unclear whether it wants in or out.
Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube believes the 2025 National Senior Certificate exams remain credible despite a contained leak affecting 40 candidates. Umalusi has approved the results release but issued strict recommendations.

Conservative activist and writer Leo Brent Bozell III has been sworn in as the United States’ ambassador to South Africa.
With matric results for the Class of 2025 just days from being announced by Minister Siviwe Gwarube, take our fun 20-question quiz drawn from past NSC exam papers. Test your English, mathematical literacy, life orientation and life sciences knowledge — minus the exam stress! See if you can outsmart a Grade 12 whiz.

The National Freedom Party (NFP) has suspended its KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson, Mbali Shinga.

As the rand weakens and markets stagnate, South Africans are increasingly investing in luxury watches, jewellery, and handbags as alternative assets.

Tensions within the African National Congress’s structures have deepened after the ANC Youth League president accused some senior party leaders of being “detached from reality.”
School placement issues are perennial and systemic. This is unacceptable in a context where thousands of parents and learners remain anxious about securing places in schools. An urgent response and clear plan ought to be in place to deal with what is clearly a foreseeable and recurring crisis every year.
The 2025 matric results will be available on News24 from 13 January

As interest rates ease and affordability improves, more South Africans are re-evaluating offshore investing and turning back to local property.

The DA has condemned Gauteng’s Education Department for leaving thousands of learners unplaced with the school year only days away, but the DA-run Western Cape is struggling with the same crisis.

Data shows that sick pay rates in South Africa are among the best in Africa, with employees earning an average of R1,863.29 in mandatory sick pay for a week off.
One day between Christmas and New Year, Marita van der Vyver headed to Paris to become a flaneuse for a day – a quiet presence on the streets, taking everything in, in the footsteps of writers who went before. She wrote this piece on her Substack.