A Northern Cape judge handed a four-year jail sentence to a man who murdered his sister, saying he deviated from the minimum sentence because the man is old, was drunk at the time, and had been provoked by his sister’s…
Mike Morton is nominated in two categories at this year’s TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa. Social media has opened a slew of opportunities for people. Back in the day, after retiring, footballers would generally move into coaching, TV commentating, or punditry.…
Countries are ‘still in the climate fight’, the United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said The 30th annual UN climate summit (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, showed that international cooperation on the issue is still “alive and kicking”, United Nations climate…
Former Road Accident Fund (RAF) CEO Collins Letsoalo is facing possible criminal prosecution after failing to appear before parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Tuesday. Serious allegations of financial mismanagement, overspending, and abuse of power have been made…
The couple announced the pregnancy last month, followed by a gender reveal. Former Miss South Africa Natasha Joubert and her husband, Enrico Vermaak, recently celebrated their first child with a stunning baby shower. The couple announced the pregnancy last month,…
Although a new draft Tobacco Bill for South Africa was published in 2018 to get the country’s nicotine habit under control, it has stalled for years. What’s behind the slow progress? (Samuel Ramos/Unsplash) In the late 1990s, South Africa banned…
A 46-year-old woman in the Free State spent more than 12 hours clinging on to a branch in an overflowing river after a taxi driver allegedly pushed her inside after failing to rape her. Police said the woman survived a…
Threatens to withhold equitable share, wants municipality to lay criminal charges. Despite the drastic improvement in the finances of the Nama Khoi Local Municipality in Springbok, thanks to the assistance of family business Rural Maintenance, National Treasury is adamant that…
A factory next to a weed-ridden lot in China’s industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that just a few years ago swore it wouldn’t be caught again by supply-chain disruptions. Automakers vowed…
Compared to the only other Suzuki model that has failed to post three digit monthly sales figures, the XL6, total Ignis sales since January stands at 198 units. Suzuki Auto South Africa has confirmed that low sales won’t lead to…