Riaan Manser recounts how the world’s longest zipline came to be built in Caledon, the South Africans who helped turn the idea into reality, and why the 3km ride makes you feel like Superman.
The Trump administration plans to meet with executives from the biggest US defence contractors at the White House on Friday to discuss accelerating weapons production, as the Pentagon works to replenish supplies after strikes on Iran and several other recent military efforts, five people familiar with the plan told Reuters.
Amid calls for the Trump administration to reveal its game plan for Iran, and doubts about the justification for the attack, experts describe this as a ‘highly dangerous moment’, sounding warnings that the war could go nuclear.
Despite rising affordability pressures and talk of “reverse semigration”, the Western Cape is expected to remain South Africa’s top-performing residential property market in 2026.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that the escalating conflict in the Middle East was already putting strain on the African continent’s supply chains and causing higher energy prices.
Parliament has heard that the SANDF deployment to fight gangsterism and illegal mining will last one year, but MPs lamented that the police had failed so badly that the army needed to be called in to fight crime.
A submarine attack on an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka has left at least 101 people missing, one dead and 78 injured, sources in Sri Lanka’s navy and defence ministry told Reuters on Wednesday.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday doubled down on his opposition to the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, warning that the conflict risked triggering a major global disaster.