WEDNESDAY, 21 JANUARY 2026, 21:59
Instead of reflecting economic confidence, the surge in gambling appears to be happening alongside growing hardship, debt and uncertainty for millions of South Africans.
Officials are seeking to open a case of culpable homicide after the vehicle of the minibus was hit by a truck as the driver attempted to overtake two cars
There is growing tension between the country’s liberation-era foreign policy identity and its deep economic integration into Western-led global systems. In the context of recent developments such as South Africa’s stance on Israel, Venezuela, and its broader Global South alignments, strategic ambiguity is becoming harder to sustain.
This movie about trans identity could not have been made in any previous era, and though the Golden Globes snubbed it, it’s simply fantastic.
Rosaline van As, better known as Tannie Poppie, the much-loved face behind traditional Karoo rooster brood on the N1 in Laingsburg, is back again, beating the odds and warming hearts once more.
The Democratic Alliance and ActionSA have called for a formal investigation after Defence Minister Angie Motshekga confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa had issued instructions barring Iran’s participation
The Pentagon in the United States has ordered some 1 500 active duty soldiers in Alaska to be ready to be deployed to Minnesota, where large protests have been taking place against federal immigration raids, US media reported.
While expressing his ambition to run for president, the Mayor of Cape Town said he would never run as long as John Steenhuisen is in the race.
Experts warned South Africans that assuming their tax affairs are in order can be a costly mistake, but fortunately, there is a way they can avoid getting in trouble with SARS.
A devastating road accident involving a private scholar transport vehicle has claimed the lives of at least 11 school learners in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg.
The Joburg Super Kings have called up 22-year-old Jarren Bacher for the remainder the SA20.
Standard Bank has warned that fraud and scams spike in January as criminals target financially strained South Africans.
Scientists have rediscovered an endangered grasshopper species in KwaZulu-Natal, underscoring the importance of small protected areas — and the often-overlooked invertebrates they shelter
Parliament’s transport committee has supported the Minister of Transport’s plan to amend South Africa’s laws to ban on drinking before or during driving, arguing that this needs to happen urgently, before the Easter holidays.
Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos his week due to severe floods that have damaged infrastructure and affected hundreds of thousands of people in the Southern African country.
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping mall in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disaster rose to 11.
An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck northwestern Kashmir in Pakistan on Monday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will join the “Board of Peace” proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump after accepting an invitation to do so and wants to contribute to bringing about a stable Middle East peace, his spokesperson said on Monday.
One of the parties battling it out over the government’s NHI Act in court said it is not willing to “bury the hatchet”, despite pleas from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to do so.
Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter the US president sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.