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Player joined Durban City on a six-month loan

Funding allocated by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) during the 2025/26 financial year has contributed to the creation and retention of 1,303 jobs and supported programmes reaching nearly 10,000 beneficiaries across South Africa.

The fight marks Mayweather’s return from retirement and will be the first professional boxing match held at the Sphere.

The zama-zamas are mainly foreign nationals; they do not have the power to be in control.

South Africa’s national artificial intelligence policy will be finalized in the 2026-2027 financial year, with the government preparing to launch an implementation plan following a recent colloquium on the country’s AI policy framework. The draft policy will be reviewed by the economic cluster ministerial council next month before advancing to a cabinet committee. It is […]

The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the High Court in Pretoria.

For years, security for SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa meant metal grilles and alarm systems. Today, the most significant risks are invisible and growing faster than most businesses realise. Artificial Intelligence has quietly embedded itself into everyday operations. The chatbot responding to customers at midnight, the system forecasting inventory requirements, and the software identifying...

LeanTechnovations today announced the official launch of the Artificial Intelligence Entrepreneurial Institute of South Africa (AIEISA), an initiative designed to bolster the long-term growth and success of South Africa’s Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs). Led by Rowen Pillai, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LeanTechnovations with over a decade of experience across...

China on Tuesday restricted exports to 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to Japan’s “remilitarization,” in the latest escalation of tensions with Tokyo.

Police have said 85-year-old Chris Baghsarian was not the intended target of the alleged crime.

The bill seeks prison terms of five to ten years for what it describes as “acts against nature”.

Senegal’s prime minister says it is “regrettable” that 18 of its football fans have been handed prison sentences related to disturbances at the 2025 Afcon final.

Diezani Alison-Madueke denies five counts of accepting bribes and a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.

The rebuttal was followed by news the police chief was resigning a year before the end of his term.

In increasingly competitive and technology-led markets, insurers must rethink how they operationalise care, accuracy and efficiency at scale.

Valterra Platinum has seen its earnings double following its unbundling from Anglo American, with the group benefitting from higher PGM prices.

Cape Town International Airport is still recovering from a large fire that broke out at the airport, with customers told to expect delays.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to table National Budget to MPs.

The ANC in Mpumalanga held a two-day provincial Lekgotla in Mbombela.

Brown Mogotsi says Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala claimed an IPID insider could erase criminal cases

General Sibiya has been linked to Motsumi through alleged middleman Sergeant Fannie Nkosi.

A leading Springbok, who has been fighting off injury-enforced retirement talk, has made a welcome return to the team camp.

Rassie Erasmus invited 11 uncapped players to the Springboks’ first in-person alignment camp of the year.

The Springboks have revealed a 49-man squad featuring 11 uncapped players for the team’s first in-person alignment camp of the year.

Northern Ireland’s Josh Rock says he didn’t expect his first Premier League appearance to be as soon as it has been ahead of playing his first night in Belfast on Thursday.

A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling

Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him out of school. It was the early 1990s and the family had recently moved from Indianapolis to Plano, Texas, where Block’s father had started a new job. While Block and his older brother, Aaron, had been wrenched away from their schoolmates, their mother had...

Lawsuit is latest action by Trump administration against a university and escalation of president’s feud with California

The justice department sued the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday, alleging the university created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli faculty and staff after protests against the war on Gaza broke out across campus.

The lawsuit claims UCLA...

Ahead of today’s Budget Speech, traditional leaders have been handed a sizeable pay rise by President Ramaphosa. Here’s by how much …

Amanda Jingela sports a new short haircut in celebration of her late mother’s legacy, who passed away ten years ago.

John Davidson produced ‘I Swear’, a film about the journey to his diagnosis with Tourette’s Syndrome.

‘You could see today he was one of our best players,’ admitted co-head coach Khalil Ben Youssef.

Five U20 players are included while veterans Faf de Klerk and Willie le Roux miss out.

‘We cannot afford to protect ANC pet projects that cost billions but deliver very little,’ said the DA’s spokesperson on finance.

“I didn’t like the players of Sundowns being booed during the warm-up,” Cardoso said.

Blu Label has resumed dividend payments after years of Cell C restructuring drained the group’s resources.

The local plant, previously an Alcatel factory, has been upgraded as operations expand into contract electronics manufacturing.

Parliament is briefed on the process to develop SA’s AI policy, with stakeholder engagement and Cabinet gazetting in the pipeline.

Auto&General has been a leader in the South African insurance industry for many years and is known for its total commitment to its customers.

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced that the R120-billion plan to expand the Gautrain network will kick off this year.

A university in Gauteng is running programs to assist with the transition to electric cars.

New contract will require patients in England to be given immediate appointment if needed.