
Trump: Tariff rollout ‘going very well’ amid market selloff
“The country is going to boom.” President Trump says he thinks the rollout of his global tariffs is “going very well.”
FRIDAY, 04 APRIL 2025, 04:11
“The country is going to boom.” President Trump says he thinks the rollout of his global tariffs is “going very well.”
Voters were positive about the Government of National Unity despite 72% saying SA’s economy was in bad shape and more than half indicating that their current living conditions were difficult.
The only option for many businesses and workers is to wait and see what level of harm Trump’s tariffs will inflict.
Lions scrumhalf Morne van den Berg was brutally honest in his assessment of his team’s recent performances, saying the players need to take responsibility.
The US president pitched the move as a recalibration of fairness, but the shockwave was geopolitical, not just financial. South Africa, though only moderately exposed to US trade flows in comparison to other nations, is squarely in the path of collateral damage.
North Sentinel is home to a tribe that does not have contact with the outside world.
Noko Matlou and Mpumi Nyandeni, who contributed to the rise of Banyana Banyana, are set to bid farewell to the national women’s soccer team after years of service.
Palestinian authorities say children were among the dead, while Israel says it hit a Hamas command-and-control centre.
One of the country’s most senior judges has set out damning evidence showing high levels of incompetence and deceit on behalf of the prosecutor in the case of Nigerian televangelist Timothy Omotoso, a senior pastor of Jesus Dominion International, based in Durban, South Africa, and his co-accused Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho.
Over the past three weeks, 33 pedestrians have died on Western Cape roads, accounting for more than half of the 60 fatalities recorded during this period.
A man named by an accused as the alleged funder of the murder of a former ANC member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature and chief of KwaXimba in Camperdown was handed over to police by his lawyer and will be making his first appearance in court on Friday.
It is prudent to assume that South Africa will be out of AGOA, which afforded us duty-free access to the US for a range of products, including the auto industry and agriculture, says Wandile Sihlobo.
After two years of legal filings, lawyers for the Zondo commission and former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko are due to meet in court for the first time. The case has been filed on the unopposed court roll after the commission failed to file any affidavits since 2022. Zondo’s lawyers believe this is grounds for the court to find in his favour, while the commission argues that Koko has failed to run...
Police and firefighters say two adults and five children survived the fire.
There are angry reactions from world leaders as the US announces tariffs on all imports.
Two of the accused in the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, have alleged that they were tortured into making statements.
UN envoy for Syria slams ‘repeated’ military attacks by Israel in Syria, warning of violations of international law.
South Africa’s transition to electric vehicles faces several hurdles, such as deploying accessible charging infrastructure that doesn’t put further strain on our grid. Off-grid, solar-powered chargers might be the solution.
The media must fulfil its important role of reporting objectively and desist from misguided crusades and illusory threats that divert attention from the genuine issues of the day, writes Khusela Diko.
At least 18 children among those killed in Gaza City at two schools-turned-shelters for families.