
Gold at R78,000 an ounce: SA is sitting on the world’s most expensive missed opportunity
The world is panic-buying the one asset that performs when institutions fail. South Africa owns more of it than anyone else. You can guess how this ends.
FRIDAY, 17 APRIL 2026, 22:17

The world is panic-buying the one asset that performs when institutions fail. South Africa owns more of it than anyone else. You can guess how this ends.
LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) – King Charles will have tea and a private meeting with President Donald Trump during his U.S. state visit later this month, as the British government hopes his “soft power” can heal a damaging rift between the allies caused by the Iran war.
In the heart of the Cape Flats, a 6-year-old girl is proving that age is no obstacle to making a meaningful impact.
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON/DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) – Talks to end the Iran war could resume in Pakistan over the next two days, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, after the collapse of weekend negotiations prompted Washington to impose a blockade on Iranian ports.
The Department of Basic Education is seeking to permanently end the quiet expulsion of pregnant learners. Draft regulations propose an ironclad academic safety net and mandatory reporting laws, though legal advocates warn that schools are still actively finding ways to push expecting teens out of the system.
OSLO, April 14 (Reuters) – Norway and Ukraine will strengthen their bilateral defence cooperation, including by producing Ukrainian drones in the Nordic country, the Norwegian government said on Tuesday.
JOHANNESBURG, April 14 (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen Roelf Meyer, a chief negotiator during the talks to end white minority rule in the 1990s, to be his country’s next ambassador to the United States.

Ramaphosa has named Roelf Meyer, a former National Party negotiator and ex-member of Parliament, as South Africa’s envoy to the United States.
Security failures left Despatch’s roads and stormwater depot unsecured, leading to multiple thefts and arson of assets worth more than R403,000 and disrupting disposal processes.
Soldiers have been deployed to gang hotspots in the Western Cape to help police quell violence. They may serve as a visual deterrent, but do little to deal with the hold gangsterism has on communities and ongoing suspicions of state collusion.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is poised to tap veteran political negotiator Roelf Meyer as the country’s next envoy to the US, as Pretoria seeks to steady relations with Washington after a turbulent year.
Demanding that the council chair step down does not shut down a crucial conversation about ‘a transformative institutional culture’. If we do not publicly demand and then secure trustworthy leadership, any transformation will founder on crumbling foundations.

Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has suspended EPWP funding to eThekwini after an Auditor-General report exposed ghost beneficiaries, irregular payments and allegations of “jobs for sex” corruption
The father of tech billionaire Elon Musk is working on a project to grant refugee status in Russia to South African farmers, he told AFP on Tuesday, a project similar to one by the US government.
A Nxuba insurance broker has joined his client in the dock as a funeral policy fraud case widens, with the pair now facing dozens of charges linked to allegedly fraudulent policies worth nearly R900,000.
Iranians in South Africa are united against war propaganda. They reject foreign intervention, emphasising that pro-war voices do not represent their views. Together, they advocate for peace and Iranian sovereignty.

Experts say South Africa’s contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a worsening crisis in places like Westbury, where illicit drugs plague the community