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The weather is good for small talk. But it has been making big headlines more and more often. In the first five months of this year, many parts of South Africa have been battered by storms, floods and lasting or scorching heat, with the government issuing three notices of weather-related national disasters and official warnings…
Open training sessions are being held before the Fifa World Cup in North America. They serve multiple important purposes, including marketing the game, connecting with fans and sponsor activations for products such as boots. Fifa’s 2026 Community Training Sessions initiative opens select practices, reaching about 75 000 fans. Goals include community connection, extending the event…
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has pulled off a dramatic financial turnaround, cutting its historically bloated unauthorised, fruitless and wasteful expenditure to zero for the 2025/6 financial year. The second-smallest provincial department by budget allocation is leveraging its savings to bankroll a R20 million digital overhaul aimed at eradicating paper-based bureaucracy,…
When people think about South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade, they usually picture rhinos, elephants or pangolins. Few would imagine that a small spider, hidden for most of its life beneath a trapdoor burrow, could also find itself in the crosshairs of collectors. Yet the blue-footed baboon spider, a little-known species found only in South Africa,…
“Companheiros! Companheiras!” shouts a man called Enric, standing on a covered septic tank in the parking lot of the Pensão Vincente in Chiúre. It is the morning muster and a group of drivers, doctors, nurses and counsellors, all wearing white Médicos Sem Fronteiras (MSF) flak jackets, assemble in and among five world-weary Land Cruisers fitted…
The Motor Industry Staff Association (Misa) is celebrating Jetour’s announcement that it will be producing some of its models in South Africa from 2027. Earlier this year, Misa raised concerns with the department of trade, industry and competition that government and industry stakeholders needed to ensure that foreign investment translated into sustainable jobs and skills…
The first signal is not a statement or a briefing. It is a post. An Iranian embassy account responds within minutes. A line, sharp enough to travel. A clip that reframes the moment before it settles. By the time officials speak, the narrative is moving. In one Lego-style animated video, a caricature of Donald Trump…
The newly-appointed minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment, Willie Aucamp, has extended the public comment period for South Africa’s proposed environmental regulations governing commercial fracking. On 7 November, shortly before his dismissal, former environment minister Dion George opened a 30-day window for public comment on draft regulations for exploring and producing onshore petroleum resources…