# Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya is no longer a police officer, effective today. He faced disciplinary proceedings over serious allegations of corruption, abuse of power and links to the criminal underworld, and also faces charges of rape, human trafficking and sexually grooming a minor. Acting national police commissioner Puleng Dimpane says Sibiya’s […]
# American economists Robert Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on economic stabilisation. Their research has helped develop models used by governments and central banks to manage economic ups and downs through interest rates, government spending and other policy measures. The Nobel Committee’s John […]
# Lamb Champs has announced a new team of ten sheep farmers, known as the Baa-Barians, who will take on Team South Africa in the inaugural Lamb Champs invitational in Pretoria on 31 October. The change follows Namibia’s withdrawal from the competition due to foot-and-mouth disease. Lamb Champs founder and Southern African Agri Initiative CEO […]
# Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister David Maynier has declared a new national park in the Eastern Cape to protect grasslands, biodiversity and important water sources. The Grasslands National Park covers more than ten-thousand hectares between Nqanqarhu and Rhodes. South African National Parks will manage the park, where landowners can continue conservation-friendly farming activities. […]
#AfriForum says repeated electricity cuts at schools in Centurion are raising concern ahead of the final examinations. As a result, the organisation is preparing urgent legal action against the municipality for breaching a court order. AfriForum’s Alana Bailey says the City of Tshwane has cut power to schools again, despite a court order prohibiting such […]
# TLU SA is calling for improvements to rural roads, rail transport and logistics to reduce pressure on South African farmers. The agricultural organisation says poor infrastructure and transport inefficiencies are adding to production costs at a time when farmers are already facing sharp fuel price increases ahead of the summer planting season. TLU SA’s […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is encouraged by the Free State’s plans to revive industrial growth, attract investment and create jobs. He was speaking at the launch of the Free State catalytic investment and industrialisation project. Ramaphosa says the province was once a major manufacturing centre, but poor municipal services and infrastructure problems led […]
# The Freedom Front Plus has condemned threats to strip political opponents and civil rights groups of their South African citizenship or charge them with treason for speaking out about the country internationally. The party’s Corné Mulder says these threats violate the Constitution and the rights to citizenship and freedom of expression. Mulder accuses the […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says a Chinese car manufacturer planning to invest in the Free State must eventually manufacture vehicles and components locally. Speaking at the launch of the provincial catalytic investment and industrialisation project, Ramaphosa said the planned investment could create about six-thousand jobs through the assembly of imported parts. He added the company […]
