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Knysna is facing severe governance and financial challenges, with failing basic services, rising wage costs, and leadership instability pushing the municipality towards collapse.
Tourism travel shifts south as Middle East tensions disrupt routes. Can South Africa gain from changing demand?
US President Donald Trump’s attack on Pope Leo was “unacceptable,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday, joining politicians of all colours in springing to the pontiff’s defence.
Germany has agreed to give South Africa a new €200 million (R3.8 billion) concessional climate loan, and the two countries will deepen cooperation in other areas like critical minerals.
Botswana’s president has clinched multiple agreements with Oman, including on mineral exploration, oil storage infrastructure and renewable power, during a visit to the Gulf nation designed to strengthen economic ties, the presidency said on Monday.
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Madlanga commission police witness Sergeant Fannie Nkosi said he feared being poisoned in prison and had diabetes, reasons which the court said were insufficient to allow him to be placed in Kgosi Mampuru’s hospital wing
The South African Weather Service has warned of severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, hail and damaging winds, which may lead to flooding in parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, the Free State and North West.
Newly elected federal chair Solly Msimanga has been touted for a ministerial position
Burundi nominated former Senegal president Macky Sall for UN chief, but Africa’s backing fractured. AU procedural disputes, objections and regional politics scuppered a united endorsement.
The Mangaung Metro, which governs Bloemfontein and surrounding towns, has lost more than R1.6 billion worth of water over the past five financial years.
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