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Nine police officers suspended over ‘Cat’ Matlala tender
Nine police officers who sat on the bid evaluation committee in relation to the Medicare 24 tender process have been suspended from duty.
TotalEnergies appeal exposes the new face of climate misinformation
The real battle over greenwashing is no longer about whether claims are true. It is about whether they are sufficiently truthful.
Editing the present for the future: Who gets to decide what we remember?
In a world where information is constantly being organised, prioritised and filtered before it reaches us, how do we construct a public memory that future generations will inherit.

Moeen Ali says he was advised not to join Yorkshire
Moeen Ali says many people advised him against moving to Yorkshire following the Azeem Rafiq racism case.
News24 | Ramaphosa to address the nation on immigration issues as tension rises
President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the country on his Cabinet’s approach to managing migration, according to Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.

How the contest is shaping up two weeks ahead of crucial Makerfield by-election
What stood out from the Question Time exchanges between candidates in the Makerfield by-election?

READER LETTER | Migrants victims of own govts
The illegal immigrants in SA should be feeling grateful that our government disrespected the laws of the country for a long time to accommodate them.
Banyana fired up to face highly-ranked Japan
The national women’s side will face Japan in a two-legged friendly on Saturday and Tuesday

Citizens don’t want these political fakes
Many across the Global South created grassroots movements that were morally-centred and people-led to fight colonialism and apartheid but we cannot seem to create similar movements when leaders take us backwards
US scrambles to contain flesh-eating screwworm outbreak
After the first confirmation of the flesh-eating parasite screwworm on a US farm in decades, federal and state officials have fanned out in South Texas, where a calf was found infested this week.

READER LETTER | The poor suffer politicians’ mess
With the rising costs of daily commuting due to rapidly increasing fuel prices, the president has called on citizens to tighten their belts

Former student charged after University of Surrey crossbow attack
A member of the campus safety team was seriously injured in Guildford on Thursday.

Kanya King, who founded Mobo Awards to champion black music, dies at 57
King overcame doubters and mortgaged her house to launch the influential ceremony 30 years ago.

US actor James Handy stabbed to death, with girlfriend’s son arrested
Handy, 81, is known for his roles in films including Jumanji and Top Gun: Maverick.
‘Too weak to walk’: witness details Mabelane’s final hours in detention
Recollection of seeing detainee chained, bruised and barely able to walk before death

Judge denounces courtroom violence after interpreter assaulted
Member of public ‘engaged in disruptive and unacceptable behaviour’, says Molahlehi

Shaw and Hasegawa on PFA women’s award shortlist
Manchester City duo Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw and Yui Hasegawa are shortlisted for the Professional Footballers Association’s Women’s Player of the Year award.

HIV activists slam South Africa’s lenacapavir rollout as too slow and too small
Last year, the coalition called for the allocation of LEN to be expanded to reach at least two-million South Africans annually, arguing that the planned allocation of 480,000 doses would not cut it

News24 | Nine cops suspended over ‘Cat’ Matlala’s controversial R360m police tender
Nine police officers who served on the bid evaluation committee that assessed the tainted R360-million police tender tied to Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala have been suspended.
Several injured in Boeing 787 nose gear collapse in Frankfurt
Staff members were injured when Boeing 787’s nose gear collapsed at Frankfurt airport