# Twenty-six people have been killed after Russian forces bombed a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution centre in the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. Four police officers and two members of a rescue crew are among the dead. Five other people are reported to have been injured. Ukrainian president Volodymyr […]
# According to a UNESCO report, global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2025, over one-thousand-600 journalists were killed around the world, with close to six out of seven cases of these killings remaining judicially unresolved. In 2024 and 2025 alone, 189 journalists […]
# The DA says South Africa’s exclusion as a beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act next year was avoidable and completely unnecessary in the context of sound economic diplomacy and negotiation. The Office of the US Trade Representative found that the government has engaged in practices which are inconsistent with AGOA’s eligibility criteria. […]
# The US intends to remove South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free access to the American market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act from January 2027. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says president Donald Trump has determined that both countries’ governments have engaged in practices that violate AGOA’s eligibility requirements. He cites barriers to […]
Rugby: Lock Salmaan Moerat will make his first appearance for the Springboks this year in Saturday’s Nations Championship clash against Italy in Turin. He will partner Ruan Nortjé. Up front, Jasper Wiese, Pieter-Steph du Toit and captain Siya Kolisi are the loose trio, with Thomas du Toit, Malcolm Marx and Ox Nche in the front […]
# Electoral Commission chief electoral officer Sy Mamabolo says operations at voting stations will improve today, the second day of special voting, and on election day tomorrow. A total of 217 voting stations in the Cape Town metro experienced delays in receiving ballot papers yesterday. In the North West, an election official collapsed and died […]
# The Electoral Commission says at least 780-thousand South Africans were able to cast their ballots on the first day of special voting on Monday. More than 2.6 million voters are approved to cast their ballots ahead of the local government elections tomorrow. Briefing the media at the National Results Operation Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, […]
# Two of the three accused in the theft of approximately ten-million-rand in cash from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in Limpopo in February 2020 have been found guilty. The Modimolle Regional Court found Imanuwela David, the alleged mastermind behind the burglary, guilty of conspiracy to commit housebreaking with intent to steal, theft and money laundering. […]
# The final New York Times/Siena University surveys show Democrats leading in nearly all seven key battleground states deciding control of the US Senate. Ahead of today’s midterm elections, Democratic candidates hold the advantage in Michigan, Kansas, Maine, Ohio, and Texas, while the races in Alaska and Iowa remain close. In conservative Texas, Democrat James […]
