Nov 18 (Reuters) – Facebook parent company Meta Platforms META.O defeated a U.S. attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the company does not hold a social media monopoly.

Fancy Horse Studios has become the first South African studio to receive global recognition for its groundbreaking palaeontological storytelling in the Karoo Origins Fossil exhibit in Graaff-Reinet.

Advancements in in-home connectivity have opened up more opportunities for technology to bring real cost benefits into the home.

A lot of things can go wrong, but for the first time in a very long time, many things are aligning in the right direction for South Africa, and there are good reasons for investors to feel bullish.

The Nelson Mandela Bay metro is at risk of losing its equitable share tranche due in December – money that is crucial for the daily running of the city’s administration and essential services to subsidise the poor. This comes after the metro failed to deal with any of its record-setting unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

South Africa’s fiscal position is improving, and Operation Vulindlela has entered its next phase with renewed momentum. Yet the programme still faces practical challenges in areas such as crime and municipal capacity that will determine how much private investment ultimately reaches the economy.

The proposals include funding the initiative through the use of special drawing rights at the IMF or the sale of the IMF’s gold, which is currently at a record high of over $4,000 an ounce.

Over decades, the former Durban City Council allowed heavy industries to expand close to Africa’s largest harbour, seemingly with little regard for the negative impacts on thousands of predominantly poor and working class communities living nearby. Former Bluff resident and environmental activist Rory O’Connor recalls: ‘Pollution has no boundaries. It was affecting all of us. So we got...

Nov 18 (Reuters) – Spain will mobilise a new package of aid for Ukraine worth 817 million euros ($946 million) and purchase U.S. military equipment worth 100 million euros under NATO’s Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.

Multi-year efforts to expand access to the Rhodes Scholarships in South Africa have culminated in proposed settlements that could widen the eligibility pools for the four ‘Schools Scholarships’, which is a step in the right direction — albeit an incremental one.

An Al Jazeera journalist was shot and injured while covering a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank that was dispersed by Israeli soldiers, AFP journalists witnessed on Tuesday.

South Africa’s presidency of the G20 in 2025 arrives at a moment of critical transition. Global trade policy, finance mechanisms and climate commitments set in the G20 reverberate rapidly through open middle-income economies like ours.