News24 | Eskom workers offered 6.5% hike as talks drag on for months
Eskom offered labour groups an annual wage increase of as much as 6.5% in a fourth round of negotiations that have dragged on for months.
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News24 | US Chief Justice warns of dangerous ‘personally directed hostility’ after Trump criticism
US Chief Justice John Roberts said that hostility directed in personal terms at judges is “dangerous and it’s got to stop”, commenting just days after US President Donald Trump’s latest social media broadside against judges who have ruled against him and his administration.
AFCON 2025: Senegal appeal ruling to declare Morocco champs
Senegal will NOT hand their AFCON crown to Morocco without a fight, and they are appealing CAF’s latest ruling with CAS.
News24 | Ingonyama Trust Board dissolved
Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso, has dissolved the Ingonyama Trust Board.
News24 | Brutal fuel price hikes: Govt warns it can’t give much relief, if any
National Treasury signalled it has little room to mitigate against the impact of a looming fuel-price shock stemming from the war in the Middle East.
Three South African tech entrepreneurs become instant billionaires
Three South African tech entrepreneurs who founded BVNK became instant billionaires after selling the company to Mastercard for R30 billion.
News24 | Cat Matlala in push for urgent trial date as well as separate trial
Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala seeks an urgent trial date and separation from co-accused in a case involving attempted murder charges.
News24 | ‘Stop overthinking it’: News24’s teens, CEOs and Profs tell SA how to create 5 million jobs
Ahead of News24’s On the Record summit, readers from across South Africa shared their blueprint for creating 5 million jobs in 10 years. The answer isn’t in policy papers – it’s in unlocking what already exists. From teenagers redesigning school curricula to platforms that turn soccer coaching into real income, the solutions are hiding in plain sight. The question isn’t, can we do it,...
News24 | Former judge John Hlophe returns as MK Party’s parliamentary leader
Former Western Cape High Court Judge John Hlophe has made a sensational return to the MK Party’s leadership fold.
CAF strips Senegal of 2025 Afcon title and Morocco declared official champions
Senegal’s 2025 Afcon title has been revoked and awarded to Morocco following a landmark ruling on Tuesday. The Senegalese Football Federation is set to challenge the move at the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Bringing Old Mutual back to where it belongs
Old Mutual CEO Jurie Strydom is on a mission to bring the insurer back to where it belongs among South Africa’s premier financial institutions. He explained to Daily Investor how he will take the company there.
AFCON 2025: Meet CAF Appeal Board members who stripped Senegal of the title
The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has been thrown into chaos after the CAF Appeal Board stripped Senegal of the title!
“Rotten egg” smell over Joburg highlights toxic air pollution risks
Air pollution in the Highveld Priority Area threatens lives and violates environmental rights, as hydrogen sulphide levels recently spiked over Johannesburg
Good news about inflation with a big catch for interest rate cuts
South African inflation eased in February, but the Reserve Bank is unlikely to view this as a reason to cut interest rates next week as it weighs the impact of conflict in the Middle East.
South Africa’s newest bank going it alone
Pepkor is weighing plans to abandon a possible partnership with Investec and instead launch a lender on its own.
Andre de Ruyter warns about dark days in South Africa
Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter warned that South Africa could be plunged into darkness again if it does not urgently build new power stations.
Bridging the digital divide: Telkom connects learners to possibility at Sitoza Senior Secondary School
Building a digitally fluent and future-ready workforce in South Africa requires closing the technology access gap in schools, especially in under-resourced and rural communities
News24 | AI ‘expert’ exposed: Fake Kremlin-linked analyst planted stories in African media
An investigation has revealed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT was used to generate Kremlin-aligned propaganda, with a made-up ‘Dr Manuel Godsin’ persona used as a byline. This was then published as serious analysis by one of South Africa’s largest media conglomerates, before being syndicated into other African outlets and legitimate news sites like MSN.
Dawie Roodt’s VAT hike warning for South Africa
With South Africa’s personal and corporate income taxes already near their limits, economist Dawie Roodt warns the government only has space to raise VAT.