# The South African Communist Party is calling for law enforcement agencies to be strengthened to dismantle organised criminal networks and reduce threats to working-class and rural communities. This follows the mass shooting which left eleven people dead in KwaMakhutha township, KwaZulu-Natal, earlier this week. Initial investigations point towards a feud between rival groupings as […]
# The Australian government has launched a review after an OpenAI agent hacked into a national healthcare database, gaining unauthorised access to the country’s Medicare statistics database. This is the first known case of artificial intelligence hacking a government network. The incident occurred in June, but OpenAI was only made aware of it in August. […]
# Government says after years of grappling with structural constraints, South Africa is beginning to see the tangible results of reform. It says energy reliability is improving, logistics performance is recovering, infrastructure investment is moving from construction plans to execution, and business confidence is strengthening. The country is nearing 500 consecutive days without load-shedding, while a […]
# A US federal judge has ordered president Donald Trump’s administration to immediately reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House. This comes after the news outlets were banned from the premises, with Trump accusing them of writing or reporting fiction or lies. The three outlets sued the administration, saying the ban […]
# ActionSA has defended the party’s decision to submit only one candidate on each proportional representation list in municipalities it is contesting in the local government elections. This comes as the DA has filed a legal challenge against ActionSA, EFF, MK Party and the GOOD Party at the Electoral Court, accusing them of deliberately concealing […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called Vladimir Putin “patient zero,” saying the Russian leader spreads war and instability. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he stated that the more freedom Putin has to act, the more dangerous the world becomes for everyone else. Zelensky emphasised that Ukraine’s cause is about protecting […]
# MK Party president Jacob Zuma has expressed confidence that his party will perform well in the November local government elections, which it is contesting for the first time. The party is still awaiting judgment in its latest challenge over the 2024 general elections, after the Johannesburg High Court reserved judgment in June. It claims […]
# The minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says government does not support the US Refugee Admissions Programme for South Africans. US president Donald Trump established the resettlement initiative in February 2025, alleging that Afrikaners faced state-sponsored racial discrimination, violence, and confiscation of their land. In May, Trump raised the annual US refugee […]
# Foot and Mouth Disease has been detected in Namibia after ten cattle tested positive at a commercial farm in the Karasburg State Veterinary District in the Khara Region. This comes as South Africa is battling its worst outbreak of the disease, as government plans to vaccinate 80-percent of its national cattle herd of about […]
