THURSDAY, 01 JANUARY 2026, 18:27
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Tourist Niels Honkoop says shattered glass littered the carriage floor and injured people were lying in the aisles.
From meteor showers to supermoons, here are some of the sights that wowed stargazers this year.
Multichoice – now owned by CANAL+ – dished up good news for DStv subscribers on Wednesday: those 12 Warner Bros. Discovery channels won’t be disappearing at midnight after all.
The food safety watchdog said people should return affected Deeside water bottles to stores.
It comes after Russia claimed Ukraine had attempted to launch a drone strike on one of Putin’s residences.
Since 1 December, the City of Cape Town has recorded 19 near-drownings and four drownings at Cape Town’s beaches.
South Africa’s 2025 GDP growth showed technical improvement, but the benefits have largely bypassed households. Rising unemployment, sluggish per-capita gains and the persistent cost of essentials explain why headline growth doesn’t translate into lived economic relief.
Nurse Megan Lynch was stood at a vending machine when she was hit over the head with the crowbar.
Reggies, the once-popular South African toy franchise, gradually disappeared from shopping centres following controversial protest action in 2012.
In 2025, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants became the security guard this writer kept mistaking for the police. Its leadership was at pains to correct the record: it is not a statutory regulator, and it certainly is not the police.
Hours before the Warner Bros. Discovery channels were to disappear from the DStv bouquet, new local pay TV owner Canal+ came through with a deal.
Pep Guardiola has questioned whether the Premier League title race this season is a two-horse race between his Manchester City side and leaders Arsenal.
The cold snap is expected to have an impact on rail services, roads and ferries as people travel for New Year’s events.
For more than a decade, parts of northern Johannesburg have lived under a haze of toxic smoke. What began as illegal dumping has become a full-blown public health emergency – and a symbol of how environmental neglect and corruption converge when oversight fails.
Many sexual predators confess to using a classic playbook to target, groom and abuse their victims, making them feel powerless and complicit. Understanding it is the key to keeping our children safer.
Women now represent a growing share of people who use steroids, so harm minimisation efforts, currently targeted at men, will need to change too.
Heavyweights Cameroon and Ivory Coast are most likely to meet SA, but Mozambique can spring a shock.
English debutant Justin Hood closes in on his lifelong dream – opening up a Chinese takeaway – by producing a stunning performance to reach the PDC World Championship quarter-finals.