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How Bondi’s Hanukkah festival turned from joy to horror within minutes
Videos and eyewitness accounts reveal how Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades unfolded.
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Videos and eyewitness accounts reveal how Australia’s worst mass shooting in nearly three decades unfolded.
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MK MPLs banged their fists on tables, stomped their feet, jabbed their fingers in the faces of police officers and sang Umshini Wami. The legislature was disrupted for more than an hour until Speaker Nontembeko Boyce called for a vote, and MK’s motion of no confidence in Premier Thami Ntuli was squashed.

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World number one Aryna Sabalenka is voted the WTA player of the year for the second successive season after winning four titles in 2025.

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The draft definition does not include the term Islamophobia, after concerns were raised over freedom of speech.

South Africa
SANTACO set to target taxi ranks and routes to ensure taxi drivers have the necessary documentation

South Africa
The main aim of the Commission on Khoisan Matters is to gather information.

South Africa
Advocate Shamila Batohi is currently being cross-examined by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

South Africa
The declining rate in childhood vaccination uptake across the province is causing a serious risk

World
Two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in the attack, according to the US Central Command.

World
Chile has become the latest country in the region to elect a right-wing president.
World
UK pop star Cliff Richard revealed Monday that he has been treated for prostate cancer over the past year, but said the disease has been successfully treated.

World
The discussions are centred around the peace plan presented by Kyiv to the US last week.

Africa
At least 13 people are missing after armed men stormed a church, an official tells the BBC.

Africa
Benin arrive at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco looking to turn 2026 World Cup qualification heartbreak into a memorable continental campaign.

Africa
At least 70 homes have been inundated in Safi’s old city centre, officials say.

Africa
The armed forces accused Father Deusdedit Ssekabira of involvement in “violent subversive activities”.

Business
Cape Town has plans to build a R180 million security wall along the road that has become notorious for violent attacks on motorists.
Business

Business
Lutfiyyah Ahmed unpacks what organisational resilience means today, and how it differs from traditional risk management.
Business

Politics
ANCYL Secretary General Mntuwoxolo Ngudle has confirmed the registration of conference delegates.

Politics
Presidency says that South Africa will not ask G20 member countries to boycott the next meeting.

Politics
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has survived a motion of no confidence brought by the MKP
Politics
The interim report of the Madlanga Commission, established to probe explosive allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal top cop Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, won’t be publicly available.

Sport
Former Kaizer Chiefs striker Matthew Rusike says supporters must allow Kaizer Motaung Jr to pick the right coaches for the club.

Sport
A court heard Doyle considered himself “the most important person” in the area before his rampage.

Sport
Craig Bellamy gives an insight into life as Wales head coach as he sits down with BBC Sport Wales’ Feast of Football podcast.

Sport
Our pick of week 15 looks at where it all went wrong for the Chiefs and if Micah Parsons’ injury could spell trouble for the Green Bay Packers
Education
A gunman who killed two students at Brown University is still at large. There were no specific threats against other schools, but many are taking precautions.
Education
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has cautioned schools against what it termed “misleading the public with fake and inaccurate” analyses of the Kenya Junior School Education Assessment (KJSEA) results, following the release of the first-ever outcomes under the new Competency-Based Education (CBE) system.
Education
[Vanguard] . Lauds GUU over academic strides
Education
[Premium Times] A video clip circulating on social media since 4 December 2025 claimed the bandits set up about 38 camps near the university in Enugu State.

Lifestyle
After the death of respected director, Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, many tributes have populated social media and traditional media pages alike. But a bizarre ‘tribute’ from US president, Donald Trump, is making headlines.

Lifestyle
Rachel Kolisi, estranged wife of Springboks captain Siya Kolisi, expressed grattitude over the support she receieved for her upcoming doccie.

Lifestyle
Tributes have started pouring in for American film director Rob Reiner (78) and his wife, Michele (68).
Lifestyle

Entertainment
The Lions now need to beat French sides Lyon and Perpignan in January to make the playoffs.

Entertainment
The ANC has resolved that they should ‘renew or perish’ following their National General Councill last week.

Entertainment
It seems that the Reserve Bank is not too negative about the South African economy, as it listed the good and the bad.

Entertainment
Public prosecutions director said she did not want to continue with her testimony without first obtaining legal counsel.
Science/Tech
The Trump administration announced Monday the United States Tech Force, a new program to recruit around 1,000 technologists for two-year government stints starting as soon as March — less than a year after dismantling several federal technology teams and driving thousands of tech workers out of their jobs. The program will primarily recruit early-career software engineers and data scientists,...

Science/Tech
Eagle-eyed Swifties have ID’d the star’s pillow brand in a recent TV show appearance, and it’s one of my favorites as well. Coop is having a special sale to commemorate the event.
Science/Tech
For decades, Parkinson’s disease research has overwhelmingly focused on genetics — more than half of all research dollars in the past two decades flowed toward genomic studies — but a growing body of evidence now points to something far more mundane as a primary culprit: contaminated drinking water. A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in...
Science/Tech
Sixty years after a team of American and Indian climbers abandoned a plutonium-powered generator on the slopes of Nanda Devi, one of the world’s most forbidding Himalayan peaks, the U.S. government still refuses to acknowledge that the mission ever happened. The device, a SNAP-19C portable generator containing plutonium isotopes including Pu-239 — the same material used in the Nagasaki bomb —...
Motoring
Motoring

Motoring
These estates and people carriers are a great alternative to SUVs in South Africa.
Motoring

Health
How to identify whether you have cold, flu or Covid and how to look after yourself.
Health
Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative mixed into fentanyl, has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for life-threatening withdrawal. It is spreading to other cities.

Health
Probe into historical abuse at former units in Sussex could lead to more alleged victims coming forward.
Health
A three-judge panel threw out a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to continue defunding the group and other major abortion providers.