SA Canegrowers has called on the government to scrap the local sugar tax, as it is adding severe pressure to the country’s already strained sugarcane industry.

Despite Johannesburg adding over 100,000 learners in eight years, no new public school was built while five closed, forcing an increasing reliance on rapidly growing private schools.

The DA’s FedEx is launching a disciplinary inquiry to determine whether John Steenhuisen and/or Dion George violated sections of the DA’s constitution.

These are the key developments happening in South Africa today, 13 January 2026.

Steenberg Golf Estate in Cape Town ranks among South Africa’s top luxury estates.

South African businesses buckle under the weight of an increasing regulatory burden, while criminals, who ignore all laws, flourish.

As numerous countries across the globe crack the whip on social media platform X, RISE Mzansi has called for South African lawmakers to introduce stricter rules for major media platforms.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube said the notion that 30% constituted a pass mark was political sloganism

Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, said that the pass rate must account for learners who drop out before writing their final exams.

Molefe is currently out on R50 000 bail on charges of fraud, corruption and contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act and the Companies Act linked to his tenure at Transnet

Simon’s Town has become a strategically critical naval hub that is drawing heightened interest from major world powers.

The Democratic Alliance has cleared leader John Steenhuisen of misappropriation of party funds through the use of his party-issued credit card.

The MK Party has appointed Brian Molefe, a former CEO of Eskom and Transnet embroiled in multiple corruption scandals, as its new treasurer general. 

The auction will take place online in February.

Rating agencies are taking note of South Africa’s reform efforts. While the country has not escaped junk status yet, continued reforms could see this change in the coming years.

Millions scattered across Johannesburg, London, Sydney, Toronto, New York and beyond have not abandoned their homeland; instead, they have sustained it

The US is set to exit the UN climate treaty and key global science institutions under a Trump directive, a move critics say will isolate the country and deepen climate and biodiversity risks

South Africa is reviewing the main reference rate commercial banks use to price trillions of rands of loans to clients.

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Ministers in the Government of National Unity have spent upwards of R450 million in travel-related expenses since taking office 18 months ago.