# Airports Company South Africa has rolled out a new real-time baggage-tracking feature on its mobile app, allowing passengers to follow their checked luggage from check-in to loading. Travellers can enter their booking reference and flight date to view instant updates. ACSA says the upgrade strengthens its digital transformation drive. Interim Chief Information Officer, Sello […]
# Emirates will introduce a third daily flight on its Dubai–Cape Town route from 1 July 2026, boosting capacity by over 600 seats a day. The Boeing 777 service follows the airline’s newly enhanced codeshare agreement with South African Airways. Emirates says South Africa remains a cornerstone of its African network. Western Cape premier Alan […]
# Africa’s luxury boating industry stakeholders have formed the African Superyacht Working Group to drive a continental growth strategy for the high-value sector. Superyachts, known for attracting wealthy travellers and significant local spending, could become a major economic driver. BlueCape chair Bruce Tedder says each vessel supports dozens of local suppliers, bringing in a new […]
# The Transport Department has tightened e-hailing regulations as all app providers including major platforms to small operators are required to register their digital systems with the national transport regulator. This comes as the amended National Land Transport Act formally recognises the sector. Spokesperson Collin Msibi told Newzroom Afrika that operators have 180 days from […]
# The president of Ghana, John Mahama, has emphasised that Africa must reclaim sovereignty over its natural resources to secure the well-being of its people. Speaking at the 80th UN General Assembly, he linked today’s inequalities to slavery, colonialism, and centuries of extraction, calling the slave trade a crime against humanity. He urged an end […]
# ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says dismissing redress is dishonest denialism. He delivered a sharp rebuke to Solidarity CEO Dirk Hermann, accusing him of pushing a malicious and treasonous agenda against transformation. Mashaba argues that redress is a constitutional imperative rooted in apartheid’s structural injustices. While rejecting the ANC’s elite-driven black economic empowerment model, Mashaba […]
# South Africa is preparing to champion its G20 Critical Minerals Framework at the weekend’s leaders’ summit in Johannesburg. Mineral and Petroleum Resources minister Gwede Mantashe urged African countries to unite behind their mineral wealth.. He was speaker during a G20 Africa Critical Minerals Partnership engagement in Sandton, Johannesburg. Mantashe calls for the continent to […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille says South Africa will welcome over 42 confirmed heads of state for this weekend’s G20 summit. She highlighted that more than 135 business events and meetings have already boosted tourism across all nine provinces since South Africa took over the G20 presidency. De Lille says the sector created 1.8-million […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille has launched a smart visitor information centre at OR Tambo International Airport in Gauteng in partnership with Airports Company South Africa – just in time for the weekend’s G20 leaders’ summit. The digital hub offers travellers paperless access to cultural and heritage information from all provinces. De Lille says […]
