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Oil prices fell nearly 3% on Tuesday to a fresh three-month low as markets weighed prospects for a resumption of supplies through the Strait of Hormuz alongside weaker physical demand and scant details on a preliminary deal to end the Iran war.
Tributes continue to pour in worldwide for South African jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim, who died at the age of 91, leaving behind a legacy spanning seven decades of music, activism, and cultural diplomacy.
As South Africa marks Youth Month, there is one statistic that should stop us in our tracks. Nearly one in five unemployed young people are no longer looking for work, write Lauren Graham, Ariane De Lannoy and Oliver Meth.
The Minister and the National Commissioner of Correctional Services have been ordered to repay at least R1.7 million to the company that runs the private, maximum-security Mangaung Correctional Centre, from which rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped in May 2022, GroundUp reports.
Amahle Jaxa has announced a temporary break from social media after facing backlash and alleged death threats over her views on the upcoming March and March movement.
50 years after the 1976 Soweto Uprisings, local cinema is still finding new ways to tell the stories that shaped this country.
A survey of 74 central banks showed almost half plan to buy gold in the coming year, while only one plans to sell.
Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s internationally renowned pianist and one of the pioneers of Cape jazz, has died. He was 91.
For the eighth year in a row, News24 has been named the most trusted online news brand in the country, according to the Reuters Institute.
Natasha Sideris grew up running the till in her dad’s restaurant, and was studying psychology when she started a side hustle she named after herself. Her empire is now fighting for survival on the dangerous fringe of the Middle East conflict.
Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and anti-apartheid champion, dies at 91.
Donations as small as a pensioner’s R70 and as generous as R5 000 have helped turn a Wellington teenager’s matric ball dream into reality, after News24 readers almost doubled the money he had earned by selling grapes and fruit.
US President Donald Trump joined global leaders on Monday at the Group of Seven summit at a French lakeside resort, where relief over a deal to end the Iran war was tempered by unease over new US tariff threats aimed at France.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would impose a ban on social media sites for children under 16 and restrictions on gaming and livestreaming platforms to “give kids their childhood back”.
South Africans can expect cold to cool conditions across most of the country, with morning fog patches in several provinces and isolated showers in some areas, according to the South African Weather Service.
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Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remained virtually at a standstill on Monday, according to tracking platforms, despite US President Donald Trump’s claim that crossings were resuming under his deal to end the war with Iran.
Legendary South African pianist, composer and global jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91.
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, health officials said, as mediators prepared for further ceasefire talks in Cairo to safeguard a US-brokered peace plan for the tiny war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.
The US-Iran agreement to conclude the Middle East war is a significant strategic setback for Israel and underscores its waning influence in Washington, Israeli analysts said.
The deal between the United States and Iran to end their war, negotiated in secret and still not revealed in detail, was greeted with scepticism but a measure of relief among ordinary people across the Middle East.