
Another legal blow to Transnet from South Africa’s largest private security group
Fidelity has won another legal battle against Transnet, with the High Court ruling in the private security firm’s favour.
FRIDAY, 17 APRIL 2026, 14:16

Fidelity has won another legal battle against Transnet, with the High Court ruling in the private security firm’s favour.
The four Artemis II astronauts, returning from the world’s first crewed Moon voyage in over half a century, hurtled back toward Earth aboard their gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft, headed for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California.
A South African clothing startup is taking on the global athleisure market, going from a university dorm room to partnerships with sports giants such as the National Basketball Association and Manchester City Football Club in just seven years.

Oxygen conservation matters now. Explore how long Earth’s oxygen supply may last and what South Africa and global projects are doing.

Early signs suggest the major drought may continue.

South African-born mentor Johann van Graan took Bath Rugby from the bottom to everyone’s favourites in just three seasons!

MultiChoice has slashed DStv decoder prices, launched split billing, and suspended annual price increases to make the service more attractive.

Lenacapavir arrives in South Africa with promise and risk, but will this HIV prevention injection deliver real change?
The ANC plans to headhunt and allow communities to propose names of mayoral candidates ahead of the local government elections.

At a time when youth unemployment in South Africa sits at 41% and exceeds 90% in parts of the Vaal, a powerful, solutions-driven story is taking shape. Vaal EmpowaYouth Week 2026 (20–24 April, Sebokeng) is not another conference. It’s a live economic activation platform delivering real outcomes in real time from job placements and enterprise funding to accredited skills […]

Johannesburg’s credit rating outlook was downgraded to negative after delays in publishing its audited financial statements, which has already seen trading in the city’s bonds on the JSE being suspended.
US House of Representatives Republicans blocked a Democratic effort to end US attacks on Iran, as Donald Trump’s party continued to prevent efforts to rein in the Republican president’s war powers.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Justices Nambitha Dambuza-Mayosi and Kate Savage to the Constitutional Court.

SA expats in New Zealand face a double blow, with spiking bond repayments and strict new visa rules threatening to shatter the Kiwi dream.

A South African clothing startup is taking on the global athleisure market, going from a university dorm room to partnerships with sports giants such as the NBA and Manchester City in just seven years.

Former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes offered to buy the struggling SOE in 2021. His proposal was rejected, and the Post Office is now fighting to exit business rescue proceedings.

Gabi Motuba’s music stretches beyond jazz, transforming grief, memory and resistance into a spiritual sonic language rooted in black life and liberation

In the ruins of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, Nelson Gashagaza survived by becoming someone else’s child. In this two-part series as Rwanda commemorates Kwibuka32, he tells a personal story on a performed kinship, ordinary horror and the meaning of belonging

Party structures across provinces are coordinating for supporters expected to gather outside the East London magistrates court, where proceedings will resume before magistrate Twanett Olivier

As the global order becomes more multipolar, opportunities for African agency are expanding. Yet these opportunities will only translate into meaningful influence if African states strengthen their coordination, develop sophisticated negotiating strategies and engage proactively in shaping the rules of global governance

Hill-Lewis remains the overwhelming favourite to replace John Steenhuisen as DA federal leader but Dyanase’s candidacy has turned the race into a debate over internal democracy