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Aisles of pain at one of South Africa’s biggest food retailers
SPAR’s share price has halved over the last year as it battles numerous challenges, including lacklustre revenue growth and margin pressure.
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SPAR’s share price has halved over the last year as it battles numerous challenges, including lacklustre revenue growth and margin pressure.
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If I had money to invest, and I had to put it into some kind of mineral that comes out of the ground, diamonds would not be my first choice.
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One big order of business is capping South Africa’s levels at 77.9% of gross domestic product (GDP). For the markets, any significant upward shift from that level will be a deal breaker. But economists broadly expect Godongwana to stay the course on this front.
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Mzansi’s favourite son (sorry, Siya) believes that investing in the arts can be the GDP quantum leap the country needs. And he learned that from owning and driving a minibus taxi – the jury is still out about whether it was a Quantum, Hiace or Sprinter.

South Africa
Premier Panyaza Lesufi is expected to highlight plans to tackle illegal dumping.

South Africa
Latakgomo passed away on Sunday and had a media career that spanned more than five decades.

South Africa
The miners have been stuck underground since last Tuesday.

South Africa
The miners have been stuck underground since last Tuesday.

World
The event occurs only in February, when the setting sun hits Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park at just the right angle.

World
As Italy cracks down on migration, Milan takes a different path — offering shelter and integration to asylum seekers even as the central government tightens borders and funds deterrence abroad.

World
Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity during a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.

World
The 38-year-old is sworn in as premier after clinching a narrow victory in October’s election.

Africa
A Chadian government spokesperson says the decision is aimed at protecting citizens.

Africa
Bellarmine Mugabe and one other man have not commented on the charges after a 23-year-old was shot.

Africa
Sudan accuses Uganda of flouting international law by meeting Rapid Support Forces boss Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

Africa
A court upholds a challenge about the lawfulness of the orders to remove four men who travelled to the territory.

Business
Skukuza Airport in Kruger National Park has been named the most beautiful airport in the world by Forbes.

Business
Mr Price has received regulatory approvals to acquire NKD amidst large pushback from investors.

Business
The rand is “treading water” around R16 to the dollar at the moment, as global uncertainty has markets in a ‘wait-and-see’ mode, and tensions in the Middle East push traders into gold.
Business

Politics
The president is expected to respond to the MPs’ questions regarding oversight and reporting on a task team on political killings before conclusion of the committee’s inquiry in March

Politics
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi delivers the State of the Province Address (SOPA) at Nasrec.

Politics
Some Johannesburg residents are hoping to hear how Lesufi intends to deal with unemployment, water

Politics
Mogotsi had initially preferred to appear virtually, citing safety concerns.

Sport
Team GB’s Winter Olympians land back in the UK

Sport
After conceding another late goal on Saturday, we look at the stats that show Leeds would be seventh in the Premier League if games ended after 85 minutes.

Sport
Watch as Zimbabwe’s Tashinga Musekiwa drops the ball after a stunning bat from West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer.

Sport
Police Scotland is investigating after Rangers players Emmanuel Fernandez and Djeidi Gassama shared screenshots of racist abuse aimed at them on their social media accounts after Sunday’s match in Livingston.

Education
The government has set out broad changes it will make to the SEND system in England in the coming years.

Education
Ties to the disgraced financier run deep through the academic world, documents released by the DoJ show
Major institutions of higher education in the US are reckoning with the latest release of the Epstein files after discovering the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with board members, professors and administrators on campuses across the country.
In some cases, professors...

Education
New special educational needs regime to result in far fewer children being given education, health and care plans
UK politics live – latest updates
Hundreds of thousands fewer children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) will be given education, health and care plans (EHCPs) as a result of long-awaited changes announced by the education secretary on Monday.
Bridget Phillipson...

Education
Finance campaigner marches on to set and tells Tory leader her policy to cut interest rates will only help top earners
UK politics live – latest updates
Kemi Badenoch has faced what could be described as the stuff of nightmares for a UK politician being interviewed about a personal finance policy: being ambushed and contradicted live on air by Martin Lewis.
As the Conservative leader was being...

Lifestyle
A key route in Cape Town is set to return to service, marking another step towards devolution of the rail system for the City to run.
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
Thoblie MaKhumalo’s fans speculated whether the man in her new gallery wall includes her father or husband, Musa Mseleku.
Lifestyle

Entertainment
SAPS launches threat assessment after claims officers released foreign nationals for bribes at Johannesburg police stations.

Entertainment
‘One of the ways to destroy a nation is to destroy its arts and culture,’ says ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba.

Entertainment
Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 24 February 2026.
Entertainment
The retro-styled will open iCaur’s product range, and have two-wheel drive as standard, with the option of a dual-motor all-wheel drive variant.
Science/Tech
A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult — whom the researchers call “hasslers” — are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% per additional hassler and about nine months of additional biological age relative to same-age peers. The research drew on DNA methylation-based...

Science/Tech
ASML researchers have found a way to make its critical chip-making machines produce up to 50% more chips.
Science/Tech
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI’s environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT’s water consumption as “totally fake” and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI’s energy use is to compare it against humans. In an interview with Indian Express, Altman acknowledged that evaporative cooling in data centers once made water usage a real concern but...

Science/Tech
Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectations
Business live – latest updates
The owner of Wegovy and Ozempic has suffered a significant setback, as its highly anticipated new weight-loss treatment was labelled “obsolete” after disappointing clinical trials.
Novo Nordisk’s shares fell sharply on Monday after the results from testing the...
Motoring
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Motoring
The South African National Taxi Council plans to overhaul the industry with a new payment system and regular compliance checks on drivers and vehicles.

Motoring
South Africa’s largest retail motor industry trade union has criticized PG Glass and Glassfit following allegations that both companies engaged in price fixing for over two decades.

Health
Josephina Finch says the surgery left her with a “gaping wound”.

Health
The medicines regulator is suggesting the minimum age limit for trial should be raised to 14.

Health
The company behind the test said there were positive signs that some of the most aggressive cancers could be prevented.
Health
The next moon mission, carrying four astronauts, could launch as soon as early March.