SATURDAY, 28 FEBRUARY 2026, 23:54
In 2025, South Africa’s new energy vehicle (NEV) market saw a significant 73% growth, driven primarily by used hybrid sales, which accounted for 85% of the NEVs sold and showed a 76% increase from 2024.
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Paramount beats Netflix to the major deal, pleasing figures in DC and LA alike, the BBC’s culture and media editor writes.
Political parties have appointed senior members to serve on the new committee overseeing the Presidency.
The FIFA World Cup is upon us, and today marks exactly 104 days before the global showpiece in Mexico, Canada and the US.
South Africa’s richest city is in talks with the National Treasury to address mounting financial troubles ahead of local government elections expected to be the most closely contested in Johannesburg’s history.
Businessman Calvin Mojalefa Mathibeli has been ordered to retract defamatory statements he made on social media and repeated in radio and TV interviews.
The result – in a seat Labour has held for nearly 100 years – has renewed criticism of Sir Keir’s leadership from Labour MPs.
The two sides have different versions of how and why the deadly dispute began.
South African runner Adriaan Wildschutt aims to become the first athlete to complete a sub-27-minute 10km on African soil, competing against Kenyan Isaac Kibet Ndiema at the Absa Run Your City Gqebera 10km.
The Prem aims to expand to 12 teams by 2029-30, but new entrants will be judged on a range of criteria, rather than winning promotion on the pitch.
The 88-year-old Juan Carlos should spend his last years in dignity, the leader of Spain’s main opposition party says.
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House will see the return of the show’s writers, creators and stars.
Several alleged undocumented foreigners were arrested during an inspection by the department of employment and labour at two construction sites in Clayville, Ekurhuleni, on Friday.
JSE-listed Vukile Property Fund has bought a 91 000m² shopping centre in Spain’s fastest-growing city.
Despite the City of Cape Town proposing lower rates and broader relief to offset rising property values, local bodies warned that some homeowners face much steeper valuation increases, raising affordability concerns.
South Africa’s land and mining crisis is not a technical problem – it’s political, structural and about power. Experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agreed that real reform requires giving communities collective, democratic control over their land.
Labour, which took the Greater Manchester seat with more than 50% of the vote in 2024, was pushed into third place.