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Marketing expert warns creatives to dare to do the uncomfortable, if they are to make it in the cutthroat industry.
SUNDAY, 14 DECEMBER 2025, 21:18

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.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary entertainment. This student musical revue will restore your faith.

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.
ANC national general council delegates have asked the party’s national executive committee to send a message to its government of national unity partners: act strongly against government corruption and annihilate anti-transformation voices.
A US House committee has voted to extend AGOA for one year, but it must still be approved by the House of Representatives, which might only happen in 2026.

The Minister of Electricity has approved a plan to establish a new State-Owned Entity to oversee energy trading in the wholesale electricity market.
The number of South Africans who live in extreme poverty – going to bed hungry more often than not – has dropped by 5.1 million people over the 14 years until 2023.

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.