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The upcoming Broll Auctions and Sales event offers exactly the kind of diverse, income-generating stock that commercial buyers are looking for.
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A proposed 2026 Budget amendment will address a longstanding limitation in SARS’ Voluntary Disclosure Programme, providing greater relief to taxpayers when fixing past non-compliance.

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Alwena Smith has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding a Stellenbosch law firm of more than R13m.

South Africa
The case has been postponed at the request of the defence and for further investigation.
South Africa
Nine taxis were set alight at the Nyanga taxi rank in Cape Town in the early hours of Friday morning amid ongoing tension in the industry in the Western Cape.

South Africa
Committee members say the minister is continously absent from their meetings.

South Africa
Health professionals have been cautioned to observe their ethical obligations.
World
US President Donald Trump encouraged Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq to launch attacks against Iran as the Middle East conflict widened, with Azerbaijan warning it would retaliate for being targeted by Iranian missiles.

World
Iran fired missiles toward Israel Friday, Israeli officials said, after Israel launched fresh strikes on Tehran and hit Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight.

World
President Trump hasn’t spelled out how he wants the Iran war to end. But ending the military campaign too early could mean losing leverage over what comes next.

World
An elementary school in southern Iran was one of the first sites hit when the U.S. and Israel launched their attacks against Iran. More than 170 students and staff were killed. Who’s responsible?

Africa
The group had said it would choose a new leader with the same title as Sarah Mullally, the first female head of the Church.

Africa
The 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is postponed just 12 days before the finals were due to kick off in Morocco.

Africa
Ethiopia unveils its first unmanned, ‘smart’ police station where citizens can report crimes on automated touch screens.

Africa
The M23, which controls the coltan-rich area, has not commented and the death toll is hard to verify.

Business
Royal Mail says the increase reflects the rise in delivery costs, but the move angers consumer groups.
Business

Business
The BBC’s Nick Marsh examines how unrest in the Middle East will impact living costs around the world.
Business

Politics
The DA says the name changes were implemented without proper consultations with residents.

Politics
Lekota family awaits Presidency decision on funeral category

Politics
The Commission is hearing an application from Sulliman Carrim for his evidence to be held in camera

Politics
The Congress of the People co-founder was lauded for his principled positions ‘even in the face of criticism and humiliation’ and for being outspoken against corruption

Sport
England’s Ellie Kildunne and Sadia Kabeya are stuck in Dubai after taking a short break during the Premiership Women’s Rugby’s reserve week.

Sport
“These changes will allow us to better protect all players as they return after their off-season break,” says the Rugby Players’ Association.

Sport
Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx capped off a memorable 2025 season when he won the prestigious SA Rugby Men’s Player of the Year Award.

Sport
Rangers manager Danny Rohl says Sunday’s game with Celtic is a “great opportunity to make a good step towards” winning a trophy.

Education
Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College
It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s...
Education
America’s strength has always been its private sector. Empowering it can save us from A.I.’s worst impacts on jobs.
Education
[GroundUp] About 80 learners from the Enon farming community have been without scholar transport this year
Education
[Nyasa Times] One of Malawi’s emerging masters of ceremony, Chris Loka, has launched a project to renovate classrooms at Chilaweni Community Day Secondary School in the area of Traditional Authority Machinjiri in Blantyre, where he studied from 2004 to 2008.

Lifestyle
‘I’m not sleeping with your women’, Nigerian pastor John Anosike said in a rant about the backlash to his R135m Good Hope Centre bid.
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Entertainment
The SDG confirmed on Friday that Mahlathi had voluntarily stepped down from his responsibilities while the legal process unfolds.

Entertainment
The EFF and the DA have described a decision by the Western Cape High Court on VAT as just.

Entertainment
A TikTok furniture deal turned into a costly lesson. Here’s how a deposit scam left me blocked and sleeping on the floor.

Entertainment
Carrim claimed that the Madlanga commission would ‘gamble’ with his life because of its ‘kill rate’

Science/Tech
The shameful pile of screenshots on my phone was as useless as it was disorganized. Rodeo and Swipewipe are helping to change that.
Science/Tech
“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”

Science/Tech
When an ambulance takes hours to arrive, or indeed never arrives at all, the consequences can quite literally be deadly. Recent reporting from across South Africa paints a stark picture: ambulance response times stretching from two to 24 hours in urban and peri-urban areas, and from six to 48 hours in townships and rural communities. […]

Science/Tech
Laptop docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I’ve been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.
Motoring

Motoring
The Automobile Association argues that every car sold in South Africa should offer the same level of standard safety features.

Motoring
When South Africans are buying a new car, they visit TopAuto.

Motoring
Multiple experts have warned that petrol prices could skyrocket to over R28 per litre in South Africa next month.

Health
Ami Clarke shares her experience of living with endometriosis.

Health
A woman arrives back in Plymouth in time to begin her chemotherapy treatment.

Health
Health Connections is to renovate six floors of its new base as spaces for people to come together.
Health
A new analysis of prescription data found that emergency room orders for acetaminophen for pregnant women fell for weeks after the federal warning.