SUNDAY, 25 JANUARY 2026, 12:31
African boardrooms are outperforming the world when it comes to AI conviction and investment. In South Africa, that momentum is stonewalled by failing infrastructure, shrinking training budgets and a gap between ambition and delivery.
Five people have been shot on Wednesday afternoon in Jeffsville informal settlement in Saulsville.
Last year’s tragic events at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa show the danger of poor information in policing operations.
Mercedes-Benz South Africa has reduced prices of some diesel GLC models to make them more affordable in an increasingly competitive SUV market.
South Africans spent a record R148 billion in shops in November, the month of Black Friday specials.
South Africa’s BEE policy is increasingly associated with enriching a small, politically connected elite at great economic cost while failing to drive broad-based empowerment, growth, or opportunity.
Corruption Watch has raised concerns about the Secretary to Parliament’s salary, which increased from R2.6 million to R6.1 million in three years.
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said he favours ending the use of prime, the main reference rate commercial banks use to price trillions of rand of loans to clients.
Experts warned that foreigners looking to buy property in South Africa are subject to strict exchange control rules, which can lead to costly misunderstandings.
Trains on the Vereeniging line stopped running during the Covid-19 lockdown due to vandalism.
The South African rand strengthened from around R19.93 per US dollar in 2025 to R16.30 in early 2026, and this trend is expected to continue.
Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Brandon Petersen leads the charts with a whopping 10 cleansheets from just 14 league games played.
Inflation cooled markedly in 2025, with the consumer price index averaging 3.2%, down from 4.4% in 2024 and comfortably within the Reserve Bank’s target range, signalling success in containing price pressures. Although inflation edged up slightly to 3.6% in December, economists say the overall outlook remains positive, helped by fuel price cuts, a stronger rand and lower global food prices.
Former South Korean prime minister Han Duck-soo was sentenced to 23 years in prison for aiding and abetting a declaration of martial law that briefly suspended civilian rule and plunged the country into chaos.