
South Africa’s most iconic industry gets a new lease on life
Record gold prices are pushing South Africa’s beleaguered mining industry to find new ways to recover the metal that sidestep the costly deep-shaft mining of old.
TUESDAY, 31 MARCH 2026, 09:32

Record gold prices are pushing South Africa’s beleaguered mining industry to find new ways to recover the metal that sidestep the costly deep-shaft mining of old.

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has reserved judgment in the MK Party’s urgent application to block Shamila Batohi’s pension, after hearing arguments on urgency and the legality of withholding state-funded benefits
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Iranian state television, citing an unidentified senior official, said on Wednesday that Iran had rejected a peace plan proposed by the United States to end the Middle East war.

A new study co-authored by a University of Pretoria conservation scientist argues that widely cited claims of catastrophic global wildlife decline may overstate biodiversity loss in Africa

Labour lawyer Chinette Gallichan was fatally shot outside the CCMA offices in Johannesburg CBD. Civil society groups say the attack represents a threat to South Africa’s rule of law, highlighting rising risks faced by legal professionals in the justice system

A twilight visit to Spier Light Art unfolds into a layered reflection, as two voices capture the power, intimacy and meaning of contemporary South African art

Matlala’s Medicare24 contract was approved during Masemola’s tenure and later cancelled by the police commissioner after reports of poor service delivery and illegal procurement
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In 2008, brothers Sam and Rob Paddock founded GetSmarter, a platform that transformed online education in South Africa, and sold for R1.4 billion less than a decade later.

Kaizer Chiefs may not have representatives in the latest Bafana Bafana squad but that’s not the end of the world for them.
Debate on a shortlist of three candidates was suspended, then postponed, after MK and EFF MPs repeatedly raised points of order.

A high-end French pastry and candy maker has opened a shop at the V&A Waterfront, selling a box of its iconic macarons for R28,000.