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Mabasa does old team Bucs a favour earning point for Stellies as Sundowns stay second
Draw at Loftus keeps Orlando Pirates top of the Betway Premiership in thrilling race, for now

News24 | Breakthrough HIV jab arrives in 6 weeks, but cuts cripple rollout capacity
A new report warns that SA’s rollout of the six-monthly HIV-prevention jab, lenacapavir, could falter after US funding cuts gutted outreach networks. Findings draw on interviews with healthcare workers and high-risk groups in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
From Gaza to Venice — Gabrielle Goliath’s feminist breath transcends national censorship
Despite state censorship over its Palestinian and anti-colonial themes, Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy persists as a vital act of feminist breathing, a collective exhale that transforms shared grief into a powerful, transborder community of care.
Ethical failure often begins quietly inside everyday human resource decisions and practices
Ethical failure in South Africa’s organisations often begins not in boardrooms, but in everyday human resource practices that quietly erode trust and accountability. Fixing governance requires rebuilding ethical people management systems that shape culture long before misconduct surfaces.

News24 | Eastern Cape cop shot dead, another critically injured in ambush
A police officer was killed, while another was injured, after they were ambushed while returning home from duty in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday afternoon.
FINANCE WELLNESS COACH: Paying off credit card debt with a bond only works with discipline
It can be a good strategy to refinance your high-interest debt, but there are behavioural risks involved.
MONEY HABITS: Why earning more is not enough to fix South Africans’ financial stress
South Africans are under financial pressure, but many are responding with a new kind of discipline: cutting extras, paying down debt, boosting emergency savings and trying to take more control of their money.

WATCH | Parents shut down school over ‘hazardous’ conditions
Roofs and ceilings collapsing, floors falling apart, doors and windows broken
BANK ON IT: Why Capitec’s latest results signal a much bigger threat to SA’s banks
Capitec’s strong annual results show a bank still growing fast, but the deeper story is how it is building a broader ecosystem across payments, insurance, mobile and business banking to stay sticky as economic pressure mounts.

Nkhwashu co-ordinated Tau arrest and ‘did not agree’ to Molefe’s request
Sedibeng suspended commissioner said he visited the White House, a meeting place for high-ranking police officers, on multiple occasions but said no criminal discussions were held there.
News24 | Chelsea sack manager Rosenior after dismal run
Liam Rosenior has been sacked as Chelsea manager following a run of five successive Premier League defeats

A tale of two Middle East voyages
A country cannot simultaneously invoke the Genocide Convention in the Hague and be the fuel supplier of the genocide it is holding to account. Alas, we found ourselves in this very contradiction

Tolashe faces second wave of criminal complaints as DA enters SUV probe
The move comes amid mounting political pressure and follows ActionSA’s earlier criminal complaint, which it says the Hawks are investigating
News24 | Chinese car scandal: Parties call on Ramaphosa to fire Tolashe as charges pile up
On Thursday, additional charges will be laid against Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe in connection with the escalating scandal over two cars donated to the African National Congress Women’s League, which ended up in her family’s possession, with one later sold. Tolashe is the ANCWL president. The DA is bringing the charges about two weeks after ActionSA did the same.