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Beer-price reality: Your favourite local lager is becoming a luxury
With SA beer prices surging much faster than spirits, your weekend six-pack is becoming a luxury. Find out what is driving these costs.
News24 | Takeaways out, weight-loss drugs in: SA credit card users are shifting their budgets
South Africans are increasingly opening their wallets in pursuit of better health, with weight management emerging as a new spending trend that is reshaping household budgets.
SACP defies ANC ultimatum over dual membership ahead of elections
The South African Communist Party has dug in against pressure from the ANC, instructing its members not to bow to demands to choose between the two organisations ahead of the 2026 local government elections.
News24 | Trump administration considers dramatic increase in US refugee cap for white Afrikaners
US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the US, according to three people familiar with the matter.
News24 | Cape Town communities ‘still under siege’: Winde slams Operation Prosper as killings continue
The Western Cape Provincial Safety Council has raised serious concerns about the effectiveness of Operation Prosper, with Premier Alan Winde warning that communities remain ‘under siege’ despite ongoing deployments.
News24 | South Africa ramps up fuel imports from US as war jolts trade
South Africa is boosting oil-product imports from the US to help replace lost supplies from the Middle East, in another example of how the conflict is reshaping trade and threatening higher costs for consumers.
Drama over former Zambian president’s body as court orders its return
The family of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu has launched an urgent high court application in Pretoria after his body was allegedly removed without permission from a mortuary by South African police and Zambian authorities, escalating a cross-border dispute over his final resting place
Holiday reality: Why your next South African getaway will be substantially more expensive
Planning a South African getaway? Prepare to dig much deeper. From a massive tourism boom to soaring municipal tariffs, costs are surging.
SPOTLIGHT: ‘I’m serving my people’: The pastor running a rural clinic that treats more than illness
Bukhosi Mdletshe is clinic manager at the Ensingweni clinic, and in his words, paying his dues to the community that raised him. Spotlight spent some time with the nurse who is also a pastor.
News24 | Three men arrested for kidnapping, mass murder in KZN
Police have arrested three suspects following the kidnapping and brutal murder of seven people in Newtown, Newark, about an hour north of Durban in KwaDukuza.
Malawi anti-corruption chief accused of using case files to pressure MPs
Malawi’s anti-corruption chief is accused of using confidential case files to pressure a parliamentary probe into a controversial pension fund deal.
A few things right and a few wrong about the Tata Curvv
While providing a smooth drive and some great features, the build quality makes the Curvv hard to love
News24 | Is wine writing working? SA’s most influential vino voices weigh in
A panel of South Africa’s most influential wine voices, including critic Christian Eedes, memoirist Bridgid Hamilton Russell, and winemaker Craig Wessels, will tackle the future of wine writing at Hermanus FynArts on 9 June. Join us.
APRIL BY-ELECTIONS: DA canters to victory in two Saldanha Bay wards, FF+ puts in spirited Langebaan showing
The DA easily retained two seats in the Saldanha Bay municipality in the West Coast district of the Western Cape in the first round of by-elections since the election of Geordin Hill-Lewis as party leader. The Freedom Front Plus showed encouraging growth to obtain a quarter of the vote in the Langebaan ward.
Malawi’s hospital crackdown ignites legal firestorm
A presidential order banning doctors from private practice has ignited a constitutional showdown, exposing the dangerous gap between anti-corruption politics and the hard economics of a health system that is already running on empty
News24 | Here are some of SA’s fastest-growing firms – with Fieldbar topping the list
A Cape Town company that turned the humble cooler box into a must-have status symbol, tops a new list of South Africa’s fastest-growing companies.