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South Africa is not failing to educate – it is failing to convert education into outcomes.
WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL 2026, 07:36

South Africa is not failing to educate – it is failing to convert education into outcomes.
KwaZulu-Natal top cop, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is set to juggle dual roles as he takes on a national-level position to combat organised crime while retaining his responsibilities in KwaZulu-Natal.

PSG Financial Services has an impressive track record, with strong growth across its metrics for the past decade. Here’s what the firm does differently.

Tongaat Hulett has been granted a temporary reprieve from liquidation after the Durban High Court approved an adjournment, giving business rescue practitioners time to finalise a recovery plan backed by billions in IDC funding

The opening of The Capital Boardwalk, a new 145-room aparthotel and entertainment hub, marks a major boost to tourism, business travel and job creation in Gqeberha.

South Africa’s Biovac Institute won funding from the European Investment Bank and the International Finance Corporation to expand its vaccine facility in Cape Town that will be the continent’s biggest once completed.

The real challenge is not how to stop AI, but how to ensure that its power is shaped in the public interest.

SARS is ramping up enforcement on its R500 billion tax debt book through urgent demands and shortening deadlines, leaving taxpayers exposed to escalating penalties, civil judgments, and possible prosecution.

Curious about what the skies hold? Discover the latest outlook for all nine provinces across South Africa this Friday, 17 April 2026.

Two of South Africa’s major labour unions have accepted state power utility Eskom’s 7% wage increase offer, while a third has rejected it and declared a deadlock, demanding a higher raise.

South Africa’s refining capacity has halved since 2020, leaving just three operational facilities that are now crucial for maintaining fuel supply security.
Cape Town’s emergence as Africa’s most expensive property market, driven by international demand and digital nomad influx, is reshaping the city’s landscape while raising critical questions about housing affordability and inclusivity for all residents.

The family who sheltered me was, by any measure, participating in genocide: they were killing Tutsi every day. They were also, in their own logic, maintaining a family, going to work, returning home, sitting down to eat. These things coexisted

Allegations of governance failures have emerged over the IDC’s involvement in a R2.1bn Club Med Tinley leisure development

A deeply personal portrait of Litchi HOV, the award-winning choreographer turning movement into a language of memory, resilience and generational change

Drawing from archives and lived experience, the international production probes the emotional and political complexities of reconciliation in a fractured world

The question is not whether the world recognises the genocide against the Tutsi. It does. The question is whether the continent has claimed it — intellectually, historically and in its understanding of itself

The Madlanga Commission has heard evidence of a metro police operation in which the precious metal was seized but then vanished