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A new PM27 Campaign website has been launched to support Patrice Motsepe as the ANC and South Africa’s next president.

n today’s evolving investment landscape, diversification remains central to building resilient portfolios. While traditional portfolios, anchored in equities and bonds, still matter, recent shifts have encouraged investors to broaden their approach.

Daily Investor visited Thrupps, South Africa’s oldest grocery store. This is what it looks like inside.

‘Those who don’t drink get teased and spurned by friends’

In the last appearance, Judge Phillip Loubser expressed concern over the delay.

The conflict between Iran, Israel and the US has caused disruption to global air transport.

Al Jama-ah frames the attacks as a violation of faith and law, calling them a “blot on humanity”

Residents rely on a fountain as a source of water for domestic use

It’s the latest trade drawing scrutiny on the popular prediction market site for appearing to show an insider making profits on military secrets.

The high prices came as U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran and retaliatory strikes against Israel and U.S. military installations around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain.

Growing insecurity in the Sahel made 2025 one of the worst years on record for the abduction of foreigners in Africa.

The move could undermine Lilongwe’s pursuit of a new programme with the International Monetary Fund

He used the girls’ mother’s life-threatening illness as an opportunity to demand sex, said the US Office of Public Affairs.

This is the highest number of confirmed casualties from a single African country in the Ukraine-Russia war.

The disgraced financier was in talks to buy luxury abode Bin Ennakhi – but the purchase was never completed.

Here are five important things happening in South Africa on Monday, 2 March 2026.

The Gauteng Department of Economic Development (GDED) has successfully concluded the Chemical Support Programme for the 2025/26 financial year, one of the flagship projects under the Department’s High Impact Partnership Delivery Model (HIPDM).

RMB presents Sustainability Talks: Episode 2.

The Commission is probing allegations that top SAPS officials of colluding with criminal syndicates

The South African Communist Party held a two day lekgotla of its leadership, this past weekend.

The launch set for Monday, will take place at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.

The DA is taking aim at issues surrounding roads, infrastructure and the water supply.

Former England captain Lewis Moody discusses his motor neurone disease diagnosis with former team-mate Ben Youngs.

There are finally some important updates on two Springboks who have spent an extended period on the sidelines due to injury.

Rhian Wilkinson intends to continue rotating her goalkeepers during Wales’ Women’s World Cup qualifying campaign.

Match of the Day pundits Leon Osman and Joe Hart look at how Tottenham Hotspur’s disorganisation played a big part in their 2-1 defeat against Fulham.

Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile

In order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had to source bootlegged copies, viewing the...

Age aint nothing but a number? Here is the age-difference between model Sarah Langa and Springbok flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu…

Miss Universe South Africa, and former Miss SA runner-up Melissa Nayimuli, wed Mandla N in a traditional ceremony in the Eastern Cape…

Rachel Kolisi – the former partner of Springbok captain Siya Kolisi – liked a telling post by a divorce coach about ‘narcissistic exes’.

Former Kaizer Chiefs captain Itumeleng Khune was overcome with emotion after his club’s dramatic loss to Orlando Pirates at the Soweto Derby.

South Africans in need of assistance can reach their nearest embassies using these forms of communication.

The Lions won four out of their six local derbies to clinch the SA Shield for the first time in the URC era.

Aiden Markram and Suryakumar Yadav have been in good form with the bat for their teams.

A Jehovah’s Witness father is refusing to allow doctors to conduct a blood transfusion if his son has a liver transplant

Lunar Strategy, a Web3 growth and industry insights platform, included Cyberscope among its Top 5 Security Audit Firms in Web3 for 2026. This list, which serves as an independent guide, evaluates firms based on technical depth, cross-chain capability and real-world deployment relevance of products and services. In a changing ecosystem, as Web3 security advances towards […]

Look west after sunset this week to see the pair converge in the dusk, closing in on a near-conjunction on 8 March

Look west as the evening twilight gathers this week for a chance to spot the planets Venus and Saturn. The accompanying chart shows the view looking west from London at 18.10 GMT on 2 March.

Venus will be the brighter of the pair, dominating the sky at magnitude –4. Saturn will...

For independent power producers, grid access on paper does not automatically translate into real-world access.

The Western Cape is strengthening its passenger and commercial rail operations.

Twenty-five women have received compensation following gynaecological surgery.