
BMA’s 24% border drop: Why fewer crossings means more drones
South Africa’s Border Management Authority is celebrating fewer crossings. The Americans had the same celebration last year, and their apparatus did not shrink. It came home.
FRIDAY, 01 MAY 2026, 03:26

South Africa’s Border Management Authority is celebrating fewer crossings. The Americans had the same celebration last year, and their apparatus did not shrink. It came home.

Mali’s defence minister died after an attack on his house, his family said on Sunday, as the army fought a second day of battles with jihadist fighters and separatist rebels near the capital Bamako and other cities, putting the Sahel nation’s ruling junta under severe pressure.
Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe broke the two-hour mark for the first time in history on Sunday in winning the London Marathon.
News24 investigative journalists Khaya Koko and Azarrah Karrim take you behind the scenes of the latest Johannesburg Water story and the contractors that pocketed millions.

The US-Israel war on Iran is sending shockwaves through global energy, food and financial systems, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the world economy, according to the WRI
US President Donald Trump and other attendees at a glitzy media gala in Washington made a hasty exit after gunshots were fired.

Remington House, a once-notorious hijacked building in Johannesburg, has been transformed into fully let student housing, illustrating what is possible when intervention is followed through
US Secret Service agents bundled US President Donald Trump from the stage as shots rang out at a media gala, in what the president later described as an attack by a “would-be assassin”.

Everything from this week’s edition of City Press in one convenient place.

Scam warning for SA: Phishing, smishing and now also quishing tactics rise. Learn how to spot QR code phishing and stay safe.

The army in junta-ruled Mali on Saturday battled what it called “terrorist groups” that launched surprise attacks around the capital Bamako and other parts of the West African nation.

To realise systemic change, we must insist on accountability at the highest levels of leadership, while also enabling those in positions of power to rise to the demands of this moment

South Africa’s 32nd Freedom Day highlights both democratic gains and ongoing struggles with inequality, unemployment and poverty