A new 30-year study reveals that Marion Island, one of the most remote islands on Earth, is increasingly littered with plastic bottles and caps drifting thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean
Mercedes-Benz is considering sharing its manufacturing plant in South Africa with GWM, a move that could boost the facility’s viability as US trade tariffs take effect.
While a Hollywood golden boy dismisses opera as a dying art, six South African singers are filling the world’s biggest stages, from the Vienna Opera Ball to the sold-out Bayreuth Festival.
The Iran war sent oil prices spiralling above $100 a barrel on Monday after Tehran under new leader Mojtaba Khamanei fired a new barrage of missiles at Israel and its crude-exporting Gulf neighbours.
United States President Donald Trump has again asserted that he would exert influence over Iran’s next supreme leader, saying that whoever is picked for the role without Washington’s approval is “not going to last long”.
Southern Sun’s proposed deal to buy a stake in the Sandton Consortium properties has fallen through after an existing shareholder opted to exercise its pre-emptive right.
The South African Weather Service has issued heatwave advisories for the western parts of the Namakwa District and west and south-western parts of the Western Cape, with the scorching conditions set to expand to the Little Karoo, Central Karoo and Garden Route districts from Tuesday.
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South Africa’s central bank said it’s monitoring the market and would take action in the event of major dysfunction, after the sharpest bond selloff since the Covid pandemic shook the country’s debt.