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WILDLIFE POLICY: Death or caged future for many baboons as Cape Town adopts controversial plan
Death or caged future for many baboons as Cape Town adopts controversial plan
MONDAY, 01 DECEMBER 2025, 21:02
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Death or caged future for many baboons as Cape Town adopts controversial plan
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England’s resident doctors plan pre-Christmas strikes over pay
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Brace for severe storms this December as South Africa faces relentless rain, hail, and flooding. With extreme weather patterns predicted to disrupt the festive season, residents must prepare for a turbulent start to summer. Will you be ready?
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Madlanga hearing told Ekurhuleni failed to act on metro police rape and corruption claims

South Africa
Wentworth residents in Durban took to the streets to protest against rising gang violence.

South Africa
World AIDS Day is being commemorated at the Ga-Masemola stadium in Limpopo.

South Africa
South African Weather Service has urged the public to take weather warnings seriously.

South Africa
The five will reappear in court next Monday for a formal bail application.

World
An appeals court disqualified Alina Habba, Trump’s former personal attorney, from serving as US Attorney for New Jersey.

World
The trio of octogenarian nuns gained global fame after fleeing their care home and breaking into their former convent. Now their superior has asked the Vatican to intercede in the dispute.
World
Cameroonian opposition leader Anicet Ekane, who supported a bid for president by a rival to the country’s long-serving leader in October, died in detention on Monday, his lawyer and family said, a development that may worsen political tensions.
World
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court on Monday for the first time since asking the country’s president for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, a request backed by close ally US President Donald Trump.

Africa
Anicet Ekane’s lawyer says the family was given little explanation – “his wife was just presented the corpse”.

Africa
A church is raided in central Nigeria and a wedding party in the mostly Muslim north.

Africa
Zambia’s government is accused of ‘hypocrisy’ as fallout from ex-president’s death deepens.

Africa
The defendants were accused of attempting a coup – but human rights groups say the trial was politically motivated.

Business
DStv owner Multichoice has alerted subscribers to the looming end of its agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, which means several popular channels could be ending in the new year.
Business
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Business
ZipCar, which has more than 600,000 UK members, temporarily suspends new bookings on its platform.

Politics
Senzo Mchunu and Dr Imogen Mashaz set to appear before the Madlanga Commission onTuesday

Politics
Lucky Montana resigned as uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) MP on Monday afternoon.

Politics
ANC NEC meeting focuses on SACP’s decision to contest 2026 local elections independently.

Politics
MKP says Lucky Montana served the party with steadfast objectivity and constructive guidance

Sport
Shakur Stevenson will aim to become a four-weight world champion when he faces WBO light-welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez in New York on 31 January.

Sport
BBC Sport looks back at previous occasions when three drivers have gone into the final race of the season with a chance of winning the F1 title.

Sport
Arsenal’s draw with Chelsea was not their best performance of the season but the sight of Mikel Merino wheeling away after scoring an important goal has become a familiar welcome sight for the Gunners.

Sport
Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d’Italia – the second successive year it will begin outside Italy.
Education
[Nile Post] President Museveni has urged fresh graduates of Kampala International University (KIU) to adopt disciplined and healthy lifestyles, saying their families and the country depend on their choices as they enter the next phase of life.
Education
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Public Service Commission (PSC) has officially kicked off a massive recruitment drive for the 8th Cohort of the Public Service Internship Programme (PSIP), which aims to place 7,000 unemployed university graduates across the public sector.
Education
At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major.
Education
[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education will on Tuesday receive a status update on the regulations to the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act, as they relate to Grade R admissions.
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
Global home-improvement giant MR. D.I.Y. has officially entered the KwaZulu-Natal market, opening its first regional store.

Lifestyle
The PowerBall jackpot is at an estimated R62 million, with the next draw set to take place on Tuesday, 2 December.
Lifestyle

Entertainment
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Entertainment
Strong winds and heavy hail collapsed a roof, causing a fatality, while multiple Tshwane regions face flooding and blocked roads.

Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories of Monday, 1 December 2025 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.

Entertainment
The former Ekurhuleni city manager denied any role in the decision to lift Mkhwanazi’s first suspension.
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader writes: Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices. An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,” and instead directs users to...

Science/Tech
Therabody’s Cyber Monday sale is live—and it’s good.

Science/Tech
Here are the Hyperice deals worth your money this Cyber Monday.
Science/Tech
The skills that future graduates will most need in an age of automation — creative thinking, critical analysis, the capacity to learn new things — are precisely those that a growing body of research suggests may be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process, yet universities across the United States are now racing to embed the technology into every dimension of their curricula. Ohio...

Motoring
A new feature in public parking spaces will allow owners to “lock” their number plates to prevent vehicle theft.
Motoring
Motoring

Motoring
More than 1,800 cars were sold in South Africa every day this November.

Health
Forever chemicals, or PFAS, exist in many household items such as waterproof clothing and cookware.
Health
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.

Health
The Blue Sky Trust charity reacts to a rise in HIV infections among heterosexual women.
Health
He spent months searching the wreckage of the World Trade Center for his son’s remains, then suffered lung illnesses attributed to toxic dust.