# Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. He enjoyed a successful career as a novelist, selling over 300 million copies worldwide, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Archer’s political career started in 1967, and he was a Conservative member of Parliament for five years before […]
# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has welcomed the decision by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, ordering that his defamation dispute with ANC National Executive Committee member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma be determined through oral evidence. Mbalula is suing Dlamini-Zuma after she accused him of “dishing out” cash to delegates to gain votes at the party’s 2022 […]
# Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US still has confidence in the security of all of its bases. This comes after the US removed all its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Britain to bases in America. The British air base was the target of a suspected terror attack last month, which resulted in […]
# Tennis: Six-time champion Novak Djokovic advanced to the China Open final after Daniil Medvedev was defaulted from their semifinal clash in Beijing. The Serb was serving for the match at 7-5, 5-3 when a ball bounced off the back wall; the Russian accidentally hit it, sending it into the air and striking a spectator […]
The EFF says the latest escalation in fuel prices is devastating for working-class and poor South Africans. From tomorrow, petrol prices will go up between three-rand-12-cents and three-rand-33-cents per litre; diesel prices by between two-rand-84-cents and three-rand-24-cents a litre, while illuminating paraffin rises by four-rand-77-cents a litre. The EFF’s Sixolise Gcilishe says South Africa does […]
# Deputy minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Steve Letsike, says traditional leaders have an important role to play in the fight against gender-based violence and femicide. Last week, president Cyril Ramaphosa reaffirmed government’s commitment to confronting this scourge with urgency through a four-point recovery plan to strengthen the […]
# The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three scientists: American Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel. This is for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The trio’s research led to the development of a light-sensitive switch that can be used to control […]
# Die Vryemarkstigting sê die debat oor die Wysigingswet op Basiese Onderwyswette word voorgehou as ‘n stryd tussen die selfstandigheid van skoolbeheerliggame en staatsgesag, maar die werklike probleem lê in Suid-Afrika se gemengde stelsel van onderwysbestuur van 1996. Die wet het ten doel om bestuur in die onderwyssektor te versterk. Die stigting sê die probleem […]
# Forum for South Africa verwelkom die bevordering van een-duisend-965 polisiebeamptes wat hierdie maand in werking tree. Dis deel van die polisie se breër strategie om die organisasie te versterk deur bekwame leierskap, kundige wetstoepassing, aanspreeklikheid en verbeterde dienslewering aan gemeenskappe. Die organisasie se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê loopbaanvordering kan beamptes se gemoed ‘n hupstoot […]
