
‘I broke the curse’ – the fall and rise of a teenage Grand Slam champion
At 19, Bianca Andreescu stunned Serena Williams to win the US Open. It was unthinkable that it would be more than 2,300 days before her next triumph.
TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2026, 15:46

At 19, Bianca Andreescu stunned Serena Williams to win the US Open. It was unthinkable that it would be more than 2,300 days before her next triumph.

A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly reshaped through disinformation, elite capture and engineered narratives. The revelations force a reckoning with the continent’s own vulnerabilities and with the manufactured solidarities that have seduced parts of...
Hive Hydrogen South Africa said it’s selected Topsoe to supply it with about $1 billion (R16.6 billion) in equipment for its green ammonia project at Coega in the Eastern Cape.

Five will be passenger cars, including a compact electric car and a small electric SUV

The prosecutor who failed to attend the Mpumalanga court for the R2.2 million Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni extortion and money laundering case is set to meet with National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) officials on Tuesday.

Three South African Police Service officers stationed at Pretoria West police station who are charged with corruption and extortion were on Monday granted bail of R5,000 each.

Roelf Meyer is set present his credentials to Donald Trump this week, in a critical mission to repair fractured diplomatic relations.

Joe Sibanyoni case exposes troubling weaknesses within National Prosecuting Authority

Considering 44.2% of the country’s population comprises of young people under the age of 25, the statistics on youth unemployment are catastrophic at best and loom as a tinderbox that can detonate with disastrous consequences at worst.

It is now likely that we will have another new prime minister, possibly within weeks, or perhaps within months, our political editor writes.

A BBC Panorama investigation revealed allegations that two women had been raped during filming.

Southampton’s place in the play-off final is at stake as they face a disciplinary hearing as they stand charged of watching a Middlesbrough training session. The result is expected to come on Tuesday.

Andrew Malkinson, the man who spent 17 years in jail for Paul Quinn’s crime, says he’s thankful authorities have “finally got the real perpetrator”.
The country may be the canary in the coal mine for an epidemic of loneliness that knows no borders. So entrenched is its people’s social isolation that a lexicon for it has been spawned – words for degrees of disconnection, vanishing from society and dying alone and undiscovered.

Masandawana will take a slender lead to Morocco for the return leg at Rabat on Sunday (9pm) as they look to complete the job and win the title.

Changing perceptions as a female veterinarian

Business improves family’s livelihood and uplifts community

Founders blend community, wellness and hospitality in Sandton hotspot

Post 1994, TV content in SA perpetuated an imperialistic cultural doctrine dressed up to appear African.