Polokwane – Limpopo police are investigating a brazen case of kidnapping and extortion after a person was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint from a visitor home and compelled to switch greater than R900 000 to his captors. Police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba stated the person’s ordeal, which lasted a number of days, started on Friday, 17…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi’s declaration on Friday that his persistence with sector regulator Icasa has run out is a small bureaucratic occasion that masks a a lot bigger political one. The written assertion issued by his spokesman was rigorously phrased – Malatsi “expects to be supplied with causes for the dearth of adequate element” in…
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Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus has rugby followers tickled pink with content material from his boozy boys’ weekend. The 53-year-old has posted clips of himself ingesting and dancing with workforce personnel. The posts come lower than two months forward of their first match of 2026. RASSIE ENJOYS BOOZY BOYS WEEKEND On his social media pages, Rassie…
In a world the place the value of gas is steeply on the rise due to the battle within the Center East, hitting the open street is turning into extra a of luxurious than ever earlier than. New vitality automobiles are one of many fastest-growing segments, not solely globally however in South Africa too, and…
Graphic: John McCann Because the world marks World E book and Copyright Day on 23 April, I discover myself reflecting on plenty of points that lie on the coronary heart of information creation, cultural preservation, and mental justice in South Africa. First, I replicate on the transformative energy of books. Books have lengthy served as…
Johannesburg – The Postbank has introduced a landmark milestone for social grant beneficiaries who use SASSA Gold Playing cards, as their time to be issued with Black Playing cards has come. The alternative of SASSA Gold Playing cards begins subsequent week on Wednesday, 29 April 2026. The cardboard replacements kind a part of the…
DeepSeek, the Chinese language AI start-up whose low-cost mannequin shocked the world final yr, launched a preview of its extremely anticipated new mannequin, the V4, on Friday. The professional model of V4 outperforms different open-source fashions in world-knowledge benchmarks, trailing solely Google’s Gemini Professional 3.1 which is a closed-source mannequin, DeepSeek mentioned. The V4 additionally…
Gayton McKenzie has pledged to reward a particular group of soccer followers with an all-expenses-paid journey to the FIFA World Cup. The Minister of Sport assured the general public that the occasion can be sponsored by non-public donors, and never the division. This comes after he snubbed “superfan” Mama Pleasure’s public enchantment to finance her…
South Africa’s largest gospel voices unite for a historic Spirit of Reward AllStars efficiency expertise. There’s a sure electrical energy that fills the air when gospel royalty gathers and this Might, Mpumalanga will really feel it in full drive. The extremely anticipated Spirit of Reward AllStars showcase is shaping as much as be greater than…
Capitec studies headline earnings progress of 23% to R16.8 billion, celebrates R1 billion in shopper financial savings, and enters its subsequent chapter as a diversified monetary companies group constructed on the belief of 26 million South Africans Capitec opened its doorways 25 years in the past with a easy perception: banking ought to be easy,…