PARIS, July 13 (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that France would allow Ukraine to produce French-made cruise missiles, precision guided bombs and air defence interceptor missiles after Kyiv ordered next generation Franco-Italian air defence systems and Rafale fighter jets.

Still facing corruption charges, the former eThekwini mayor has been elevated to MK’s provincial leadership as the party doubles down on its campaign to take control of South Africa’s most contested political province.

LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. military will begin enforcing a maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday, the U.S. Navy-led Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) said on Monday.

Crumbling infrastructure, systemic operational paralysis, and brazen extortion schemes have pushed Johannesburg’s electricity network to its breaking point, leaving the utility increasingly unable to cope with a localised crisis that councillors warn is sliding out of control.

The deal that is honestly not a BEE compliance issue is clearing its final hurdles — and SA’s most on-time airline will soon have new owners.

Of the 7,730 people who entered the United States as ‘refugees’ over several months, all but three were from South Africa. This was while immigrants from other countries, already legally in America, have had to turn to a court to get immigration benefits – their case reiterates how US President Donald Trump has prioritised white Afrikaners.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was ‘looking forward’ to Idac boss Andrea Johnson’s testimony at the Madlanga Commission, which was delayed after she called in sick.

Plant poaching is also a social crisis that’s finding fertile ground in the country’s deep-rooted inequality and culture of corruption.

In the upcoming elections South Africans will have a choice of political parties like never before, but with more parties fighting for a finite pool of council seats there is an increased chance that no single party garners enough votes to govern outright.

Dieter Gerhardt, a pivotal figure in the anti-apartheid Struggle who became a high-ranking Soviet spy, has died at 90, reigniting debate about his controversial actions and motivations.

The minister of communications and digital technologies was in Cape Town to hand over tablet devices to social workers — not to answer questions about his relationship with Resolve Communications and Tony Leon… But here we are.

While the government’s push for 60 days of fuel reserves raises questions around management and costs, I am pleased that we are planning ahead. It also triggers important questions about disasters – for institutions and you and me.