FIFA World Cup: Bafana Bafana’s possible opponents revealed
Bafana Bafana have two possible opponents for the FIFA World Cup, and they will know their fate after Tuesday’s finals.
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South African Ponzi King who stole millions remain member of prestigious private school association
Craig Roy Warriner, who stole billions from clients and was sentenced to 537 years’ imprisonment, retained his membership of the Old Stithians Association.
News24 | ANC granted leave to appeal ruling to halt Eastern Cape conference
The ANC’s application to appeal the interdict halting the party’s Eastern Cape conference will be heard on Saturday at the East London High Court.
News24 | Life behind bars: Dumisani Phakathi’s killers sentenced for brutal farm crime
Jaco Kemp, Louis Coetzee, and Gert van der Westhuizen have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Dumisani Phakathi on a chicken farm in Brits.
South Africa’s saving grace is right beneath its feet
While South Africa is a net oil importer, the country is not a net energy importer, which makes it more insulated than some of its peers to supply shocks from the conflict in the Middle East.
News24 | Another fuel hit for SA on the way as India slaps taxes on exports
A new export levy will increase the cost of fuel for South African importers, who buy up to 24% of both petrol and diesel from India.
Ramaphosa backtracks on US-backed G7 snub
South Africa walked back its claim that US pressure led to its disinvitation from an upcoming Group of Seven summit in France.
Major new shopping centre opens in small seaside South African town
A new 2,000 m² coastal-inspired retail and lifestyle centre, Garden Walk, has opened in Hartenbos, offering 51 stores, dining, and community spaces.
News24 | It’s going to be rough: The final fuel increases you must expect
Unless government steps in to soften the blow, fuel prices will increase by up to R11.63 per litre on Wednesday, 1 April – adding thousands of rands to household budgets for the month.
Unisa plans airport training hub
South Africa’s largest distance learning university is taking a bold step into aviation, aiming to blend theory with real world experience.
News24 | News24’s Jeff Wicks wins inaugural investigative journalism award
News24 investigative journalist Jeff Wicks is a joint winner of the inaugural Ninety One For Tomorrow Award, sharing the R1 million prize with Daily Maverick journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh for his exceptional contribution to investigative journalism in South Africa.
News24 | Kaizer Chiefs-Orlando Pirates Legends Derby cancelled
Sunday’s Legends Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates has been cancelled.
Making billions by sabotaging Eskom
Coal-trucking syndicates sabotaged conveyor belts and railways to profit from expensive road transport and coal price arbitrage during the past decade’s load-shedding crisis, which is now under control.
R1 million gift for South African taxpayers
South Africa’s Treasury has doubled the Single Discretionary Allowance to R2 million per year, giving taxpayers greater flexibility to move money offshore.
Hollywood keeps foretelling same script as history
Donald Trump is not Harry Truman, 2026 is not 1945 and Iran is emphatically not Japan
Back to love: Judith Sephuma on legacy, music and the long road home
From global stages to intimate performances, Judith Sephuma shares what has sustained her career and what she hopes to build
Montreux Jazz Festival makes African debut in Franschhoek
A legendary Swiss festival meets the Cape Winelands as Montreux launches its first African edition in Franschhoek with global stars and jazz visionaries
Our royals must rise to occasion
The culture, traditions, customs and land of their nations are not relics to be admired. They are living inheritances to be defended
Pilane Bubu and the work of remembering through folklore
Through its KinFolk theme, the Folklore Festival returns to the work of connection, bridging generations, regions and disciplines to reimagine how South Africa remembers, archives and sustains its cultural voice
The Évian surrender: how France sold out South Africa (and its own soul)
Macron personally invited Ramaphosa to the G20. Now the invite’s gone, Pretoria and Paris can’t agree on why.
US role in Africa delivers fake democracies
The lesson is clear: democracy in Washington’s playbook is not a universal value but a lever, invoked when nations resist economic control, claim authority over their own resources or chart independent destinies