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A wild weather system pummelled Sydney for a second day on Wednesday, with the storm forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, bringing down trees and taking out power to thousands of homes in ...
A plan to move the ambulance call centre for several Karoo towns, currently based in Murray Street, Graaff-Reinet, to the call centre at Dora Nginza Hospital in Nelson Mandela Bay has residents up in ...
The SANDF has refused to fund the legal defence of retired Lieutenant General Joffel van der Westhuizen in the Cradock Four inquest. A document outlining the reasons was handed to the judge, but not ...
We got it wrong… South African motorists won’t be seeing a fuel price drop this July. Instead, pump pain is back with a vengeance.
Last week, Standard Bank announced that it was raising its retirement age for executives from 58 to 63. There is a wonderful Game of Thrones context to this. The current CEO, Sim Tshabalala, who has ...
The refusal by the UK to grant Julius Malema a visa fits within a broader global trajectory — character-based exclusions are increasingly shaped less by criminal convictions than by digital footprints ...
When I arrived as a graduate student in New York in 1983, the city and the country were in the middle of a vibrant anti-apartheid campaign. I never dreamt that 40 years later I would feel this gnawing ...
Covid has largely dropped out of the headlines, but the virus that causes it is still circulating. We ask what we should know about a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the state of the Covid pandemic in 2025 ...
New car sales roared back in June, but exports wobbled for big players like VW and Toyota. Chinese brands continue to chip away at market share. Naamsa’s latest numbers reveal a rebound with a risky ...
A World Health Organization report released this week has some ideas on how to fight Big Tobacco’s influence machine, just as an SA Bill regulating newer tobacco products has finally reached the ...
Since the assassination of former ANCYL secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa in 2017, his 70-year-old mother, Agnes, has endured years of hardship. The case highlights the scourge of political killings in ...