April 6 (Reuters) – Netflix NFLX.O doubled down on its gaming efforts on Monday, launching a new app called “Netflix Playground” that would feature games built around popular children’s characters such as Peppa Pig and Sesame Street.
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that Iran could be taken out in one night, “and that night might be tomorrow night,” warning Tehran it had to make a deal by Tuesday night or face wider bombing raids.
Dental technology students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, whose studies have been disrupted since June 2025, are facing mounting debt and the prospect of delayed graduation as a dispute between the South African Dental Technicians Council and the university deepens.
Trump 1.0 policy adviser Steve Bannon describes the tactic as flooding the zone. In the compressed week before an Easter holiday, the City of Cape Town released its draft budget with 12 annexures just for the water and sanitation part.
At Northern Cape Urban TVET College, the millions spent on flashy infrastructure starkly contrasts with dilapidated student living conditions, revealing deep-rooted mismanagement and urgent needs for intervention.
Six years later, clawback cases are entering a tougher new phase. Though courts are ordering repayments, it does not mean the gogos will get all their money back.
What is most disappointing is the alacrity with which many health professionals who signed the letter of protest to UCT are willing to believe fabrications against Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, a fellow health practitioner, without question
This annual ritual is one of smoke and mirrors, a charade that treats capital commitments long in company plans as ‘new’ investments that have been magically conjured with the wave of a wand.
It’s almost impossible for ordinary South Africans to quantify the extraordinary amount of energy it takes to smelt chromite ore to produce just one tonne of ferrochrome alloy, and that’s part of the problem.
The four astronauts embarking on NASA’s lunar flyby became on Monday the humans to travel furthest from our planet, as they get set to view areas of the moon never before seen by the naked eye.
The Bulls and the Stormers both narrowly lost in the Champions Cup round of 16 at the weekend, but despite the setbacks, it signalled a new era in the tournament.
Through pragmatic, results-focused policy reforms, South Africa could begin to recapture the confidence of global capital and become an enabling hub for Chinese, emerging and Western companies to establish regional headquarters and build supply chains to serve their expansions into an expanding pan-African economy.
A surprising contender emerges from the shadows as a little-known Democratic Alliance member enters the presidential race, challenging a more prominent rival just days before the federal congress.
There is a thread that runs from Golgotha to the hold of a slave ship to a chamber of the United Nations on a Wednesday afternoon in March 2026. It is not a thread of progress. It is a thread of recurrence.
Although a holiday week in South Africa inevitably means subdued activity in local company news, there were still some juicy stories that came through.
Dr Hayley Clements, one of the participants in an upcoming Tipping Points webinar, reveals that sub-Saharan Africa has lost a quarter of its biodiversity, stressing the need for inclusive conservation strategies that empower local communities.
While Washington spent two years threatening Pretoria, Donald Trump built the conditions for his own undoing. At 35% approval and $4-a-gallon gas, the leverage is expiring.
Severe thunderstorms with strong winds, hail, excessive lightning, and heavy downpours are expected in the south-western parts of the North West and north-western parts of the Free State, according to the South African Weather Service.
A 53-year-old captain attached to the police’s Protection and Security Services (PSS) unit has been arrested for allegedly defrauding it of millions of rand.