A knockout: The C-Class leans far into the design of being a child S-Class and that’s why it stands out from earlier generations. Mercedes-Benz unveiled the all-new electrical C-Class at its international launch final week, drawing blended reactions to its up to date design language. Earlier than the following chapter arrives, we frolicked behind the…
Legendary Beninese musician Angélique Kidjo shall be among the many headliners of the twenty seventh Customary Financial institution Pleasure of Jazz music competition. Photograph: File The Customary Financial institution Pleasure of Jazz has introduced the complete line-up for its 2026 version, returning to the Sandton Conference Centre from September 25 to 26. Now in its…
Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photograph by Gallo Pictures/Darren Stewart) uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Occasion chief, Jacob Zuma, says he plans to have interaction ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa in a bid to finish what he described as a rising dispute over the legacy of liberation wrestle figures. Talking on Monday at his celebration’s second anniversary commemoration of…
The US-Israel struggle on Iran is exposing deep structural vulnerabilities within the world economic system, sending shockwaves by way of power markets, driving up fertiliser prices and threatening meals safety in ways in which may linger effectively past the speedy disaster, analysts on the World Assets Institute (WRI) have warned. At a briefing this week,…
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…
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,…
Fannie Masemola, the nationwide police commissioner, has denied receiving monetary gratification from businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s contract. The state intends to make Nationwide Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola a co-accused within the fraud and corruption case, State versus Vusimuzi Matlala and 15 others, the Pretoria Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom heard on Tuesday. Masemola has been…
Dr Vish Govender laments of struggling to draw structural engineers with solely 4 serving the complete province. Photograph: Equipped KwaZulu-Natal is struggling to draw structural engineers placing the province in a precarious place throughout devastating disasters. Complicating the grim image is that the coastal province through the years has been liable to floods leaving a…
One instance of the dangers of shutting off a water system is inflicting extra leaks. A speedy strain drop may cause water hammer, a shockwave that may be damaging. Picture: WaterCAN There was an growing quantity of commentary on the inevitability of “watershedding”, as if that is as simple to implement as loadshedding for electrical energy. Sizzling…
The water disaster has turn out to be a defining function of municipal service supply in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, with the best impression felt in poor and marginalised communities. In October 2023, the Johannesburg Water Disaster Committee took a step that many thought would go nowhere: it wrote to the South African Human Rights…