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First drive: BYD’s Atto 2 DM-i aims to win over South...

Chinese new energy automaker BYD continues its aggressive expansion in South Africa, with the launch of the all-new Atto 2 DM-i, a...

Golf GTI 8.5 brings the vrrr-phaa 50 years after its debut

This year marks two significant milestones for Volkswagen in South Africa: 75 years of the German brand on local soil and 50...

Berlin air show highlights Europe’s defence dilemma

The International Aerospace Exhibition has opened in Berlin, bringing together aerospace companies, defence manufacturers, researchers and government leaders from across the world. Military aircraft, transport...

Jub Jub arrested over shooting incident involving e-hailing driver

Controversial media personality Jub Jub has been arrested after a dramatic incident in Edenvale involving an e-hailing driver, police confirmed on Sunday. Jub Jub, whose...

World economy steps back from the brink, bringing relief to households

Crude oil fell to a two-month low this week. For South Africa, that is potentially the best economic news we have received in months. After...

Soccer-Somali referee denied US entry for World Cup will receive full...

MIAMI - Somali soccer referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who was denied entry into the US to officiate at the World Cup, will be paid...

Court rules against Tswaing’s irregular payment

Tswaing Local Municipality in North West, Delareyville, has failed in an urgent court bid to suspend a damning Section 106 report that flags alleged...

FS family wants answers, blames white farmer for worker’s death

A Free State farmworker’s family, which is accusing his employer of having a hand in his death, is demanding justice. The owner of Snyman Broedery...

Manamela faces pushback over NSF CEO post fiasco

Buti Manamela, the beleaguered minister of higher education, is embroiled in yet another controversy, this time over a decision to re-advertise the position of...

Nigeria killed 13 000 terrorists in 2025, President Tinubu says

  Nigeria's military has "neutralised" more than 13 000 insurgents over the past year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced on Friday. The claim comes as the...

Iran says it has not decided on proposed memorandum of understanding...

Iran has not yet made and announced its final decision on a proposed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the US and was reviewing it,...

Ramaphosa seeks to stop impeachment probe

President Cyril Ramaphosa wants the parliamentary committee re-established to resume the Section 89 process linked to the theft of foreign currency on his Phala...

Domestic dispute leaves 1 dead, 3 injured in the Merrivale area

Midlands EMS crews, along with Midlands EMS K9 Rescue Medics, were dispatched to a residence in the Merrivale area, KwaZulu-Natal, after reports of a...

Political heads called to resolve state vehicle impasse

A standoff between Mangaung Metro Municipality and the provincial Fleet Management Trading Entity (FMTE) is hampering by-law enforcement in the metro after the return...

Gauteng roadblock results in arrest of 21 motorists for driving under...

Gauteng Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Tommy Mthombeni led another successful multidisciplinary High-Density Operation Shanela II in the SAPS Honeydew and Cosmo City policing precincts...

Youth Agency turmoil over R1.3bn presidential youth employment fund

As South Africa prepares to celebrate Youth Day on Tuesday, a governance dispute over the R1.3 billion National Youth Service (NYS) programme at the...

Inside SAPS paper trail behind Nkhuoa’s suspension over Cat’s tender

A disciplinary case against acting deputy national commissioner for human resource management, Lt-Gen Lineo Nkhuoa, has brought renewed scrutiny to the controversial R360-million Medicare24...

Mystery SAPS general in Matlala tender scandal

A senior SAPS general who sat on the Bid Adjudication Committee (BAC) that approved the controversial Medicare 24 contract linked to Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala...

Al Qaeda-linked militants curb their brutality in seized Malian territory

  DAKAR - The meetings have become routine. Every few months, jihadists in Mali affiliated with al-Qaeda summon the men of Poutchi to a mud-brick...

Student fund crisis sparks InSeta boardroom war

An internal email at the centre of the growing battle between the InSeta board, suspended chief executive officer Gugu Mkhize and higher education minister...

US deports Iranian pro-democracy activist to Central African Republic, lawyer says

DAKAR - The US has deported an Iranian pro-democracy activist to Central African Republic, her lawyer said at the weekend, describing it as a...

Court targets faceless accounts over Mfazi death, Phala Phala claims

The North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, has granted an urgent interim order against a group of anonymous social media accounts accused of linking former...

Trump says peace deal to be signed on Sunday, Iran disputes...

US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that Washington and Tehran would sign a peace deal on Sunday, while Iran's Foreign Ministry was reported...

Cape bus extorter got largest share of R11m

A young taxi owner reaped the big rewards from a multimillion-rand extortion racket that preyed on long-distance bus operators across South Africa and disrupted...

State braces for June 30 immigrant deadline

The security cluster is monitoring possible risks linked to the June 30 deadline set by anti-illegal immigration campaigners for undocumented migrants to leave South...

Soccer-confident DR Congo ready to bring African flair to World Cup...

HOUSTON - Jubilant singing and the raspy sound of vuvuzelas have created an unmistakingly African feel to Democratic of Republic Congo’s training in Houston,...

Congo says number of confirmed Ebola cases rises to 710

KINSHASA - The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to 710, including 149 deaths, government data showed on...

AI is rapidly changing the rules of accounting

The roles of chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) are undergoing a shift as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in business...

Time for Broos to unleash the dogs and stop playing silly...

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos’s inhibitions and a fear of humiliation cannot be allowed to hold the nation to ransom. To read this full story,...

Fifa has been turned into a profit-driven body

History tells us, in the run-up to the 1966 Fifa World Cup, the UK government initially refused to grant entry visas to the North...