(Reuters) – South African born and raised Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world’s richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement, including not divulging just how many bots there are. […]

The following story has been going viral since December 2020. It’s about a story supposedly told by Nigerian businessman and philanthropist Femi Otedola. Nobody’s exactly sure if it’s fact or fiction. But perhaps it doesn’t matter. The message is real (and so is Otedola)… and, as Gauteng PR Georg Knoke says: It’s Food for the […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent his condolences to the people of Japan, following the death of the country’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe passed away following a shooting while he was on the campaign trail in the country. Abe was Japan’s longest serving prime minister until he left the job in 2020 […]

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has died in hospital after being shot during a political event in Japan – where he was giving a speech – on Friday morning, 8 July 2022. Bodyguards managed to wrestle the suspected shooter to the ground, and police have confirmed he has been arrested. The 67-year-old politician, who […]

Two restaurants in the Western Cape have been ranked among the 100 Finest Restaurants in the world in the prestigious ‘Oscars of food’ list – The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022. They are the multi-award winning La Colombe in Cape Town and Wolfgat in Paternoster. The extended list from 51-100 was announced on Tuesday 5 July, […]

Daughter suspects they went to bed when the electricity cut and forgot to switch off a stove. By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik.   A couple burnt to death in a shack fire in Blowy Informal Settlement, Khayelitsha, early on Thursday morning. Nocingephi Kani and Zolile Stuurman were sleeping when their shack caught fire. Two of their grandchildren, aged […]

Eskom has delivered some slightly brighter news today, announcing that seven generation units have been returned to service. During the same period six generating units that needed urgent repairs during the strike have been taken offline for repairs. This is made possible by the full return to work of all striking employees over the past […]

Eviction case withdrawn from High Court. Text by Liezl Human. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks. A developer has struck a deal with families occupying land near Kommetjie in Cape Town. The land is to be developed for subsidised housing. In terms of the deal, the families who have been occupying the land will not be evicted […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced its plan to reconvene the Emergency Committee on monkeypox under the International Health Regulations as infections continue to soar globally… although at the time of publishing there have only been two confirmed cases in South Africa. In June, the WHO’s Emergency Committee resolved by consensus the outbreak does not […]

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned as Tory party leader, but says he will remain in his position as PM until the Autumn by which time a new Conservative leader will have been elected. Johnson delivered a statement to the nation at 12:30 UK time. The resignation comes as no shock after the exodus […]

An alert tourist’s actions have led to the successful arrest of three suspected rhino poachers in SA’s famous Kruger National Park. The tourist, who had been travelling on the road between Malelane and Skukuza on Friday (1 July), heard two gunshots… and immediately reported it to the Malelane Ranger, South African National Parks (SANParks) confirmed […]

South Africa’s Police Minister, Bheki Cele, today clashed with Ian Cameron, anti-crime activist and Action Society director of community safety, in an angry and emotionally-fuelled outburst that ended with him yelling at Cameron to sit down and listen, or to ‘get out’. Cameron was then led out by police. The Police Ministry was meeting with […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British ninth-seed Cameron Norrie – who was born in South Africa, raised in New Zealand and naturalised in Britain – reached his first Grand Slam semi-final when he twice came from behind to beat unseeded Belgian David Goffin in five sets on Tuesday, to set up a dream Wimbledon meeting with Novak […]

South African-born Cameron Norrie has reached the quarter finals of a Grand Slam tennis tournament for the first time in his career, after beating American Tommy Paul at Wimbledon on Sunday 3 July 2022: 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. And this afternoon he will step onto Court 1 carrying the hopes of a few nations on his […]

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has announced an additional 61 athletes to the Team South Africa squad that will carry the nation’s flag at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and which will take place from 28 July – 8 August. This was the second and final squad announcement following the first […]

A total of 23 athletes across nine different sports have been announced by governing body SASCOC to fly the Team SA flag at the 2022 World Games to be held in Birmingham, Alabama (not to be confused with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games which begins later this month). Olympic medallist Bridgitte Hartley and veteran Andrew […]

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced a price increase of at least R2.30 for all fuel variants from Wednesday, taking the fuel price to well beyond R25 a litre. In the wake of the “massive fuel price increase”, the DA has handed in its Fuel Price Deregulation Bill to Parliament today, […]

South Africans are due for a smorgasbord of load shedding stages in the week ahead as Eskom’s generation capacity shortages persist… and are expected to continue for the next few weeks. Eskom on Sunday cautioned South Africans that it would still take a few weeks for the power generation system to fully recover to pre-strike […]

South African-born Cameron Norrie will walk out onto Court 1 at Wimbledon – the world’s most prestigious tennis tournament – to face US Tommy Paul in the final 16 on Sunday, the first time Cameron has made the fourth round of any of the four Grand Slams. Despite being born in Johannesburg (in 1995), Cameron […]

A last-gasp penalty goal by Damian Willemse secured the Springboks the narrowest of wins over Wales in the first of three Castle Lager Incoming Series Test matches, with the 82nd minute effort edging the home side past Wales by 32-29, after the visitors held an 18-3 lead at the break. A few minutes earlier the […]

A Family Feud Africa episode from a couple of years ago has started going viral again in South Africa as the country experiences various stages of power cuts. It’s the episode where American TV show host Steve Harvey learns about what South Africans call ‘load shedding’. When Family Feud Africa posted the video on YouTube […]

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and assistant coach Mzwandile Stick say they are thrilled about the prospect of playing in front of a capacity crowd at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday when they kick off their Castle Lager Incoming Series against Wales and said they wanted to make the nation proud. UPDATE: Springboks win against […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – It has been confirmed that former South African paralympic sportsman Oscar Pistorius, who was jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, last week met with her father. Tania Koen, lawyer for the Steenkamp family said on Friday, that Pistorius took part in a process known as “victim-offender dialogue” – an […]

The overall outlook of South Africa’s national water levels improved slightly in the past week, BUT the Department of Water and Sanitation has reiterated its call to water users to exercise maximum caution when using water. The improvement is largely due to the expected winter rainfall in the Western Cape, and unexpected wet weather in […]

Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, says the power utility will be taking action against workers who embarked on an illegal strike over the past week. The strike hit the state-owned entity hard, with up to 90% of workers absent from duty – plunging the country into stage six load shedding as a mitigating measure to avoid […]