# South Africa is bracing for a natural gas shortage starting next year, despite offshore discoveries between 2019 and 2020. The Petroleum Agency’s acting CEO, Bongani Sayidini, reports that the Brulpadda and the Luiperd fields off the Southern Cape coast have not yielded commercially viable quantities. Meanwhile, Wits Business School Advisory Board chairperson Priscillah Mabelane […]
# The Cableway Charity Challenge has been postponed to Sunday due to bad weather forecasted. Originally set for Saturday, the event sees participants climbing Platteklip Gorge on Table Mountain to raise funds for charities supporting vulnerable women and children. Despite the delay, organisers encourage hikers, runners, and supporters to unite for this powerful cause. The […]
# Three young men aged 18 to 22 have been arrested after a shoe was thrown at Kenyan president William Ruto during a rally in Migori County, Western Kenya, on Sunday. The government condemned the act as disgraceful, while activists say it symbolises growing frustration over economic hardship and rising living costs. Despite scrapping tax […]
# ActionSA has termed the DA in Johannesburg’s motion of no confidence against mayor Dada Morero and speaker Nobuhle Mthembu as a desperate distraction from its own failures. ActionSA’s provincial chairperson in Gauteng, Funzi Ngobeni, accuses the DA of political grandstanding, saying the move deepens instability in an already broken city. Ngobeni has defended Mthembu’s […]
# Moody’s has revised South Africa’s GDP growth forecast for this year down to 1.5-percent, a 0.2-percentage point downgrade from its February projection of 1.7-percent. It cites global policy uncertainty and rising trade tensions. Local economists believe even this projection is optimistic, suggesting National Treasury may lower estimates further in the budget. The downgrade reflects […]
# Qatar Airways has announced that from June 1st, it will operate one of its weekly Doha to Cape Town flights using a Boeing 777, offering passengers complimentary ultra-fast Starlink wi-fi. The airline, already boasting the world’s largest Starlink-equipped 777 fleet, is also the first to fit the system to Airbus A350s. Celebrating 20-years in […]
# The British high commission in Pretoria has apologised to EFF leader Julius Malema after his UK visa was not processed in time for a Cambridge University conference this weekend. High commissioner Antony Phillipson cited standard procedures and recent UK bank holidays as reasons for the delay after Malema accused the country of deliberate sabotage. […]
# The Democratic Alliance in Johannesburg has criticised mayor Dada Morero’s State of the City Address, citing massive financial mismanagement. DA provincial leader Solly Msimanga claims the city has incurred over 20-billion-rand in unauthorised and fruitless expenditure. Msimanga says this reflects a failure to address Johannesburg’s complex challenges amid limited resources. He argues that the […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially launched the second phase of Operation Vulindlela. This joint initiative between the Presidency and National Treasury aims to expedite structural reforms across key sectors. Phase II introduces 30 priority reforms focusing on municipal service delivery, urban densification, and digital transformation. He emphasised that the operation seeks to modernise network […]
