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ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula wants the police to investigate the outcomes of the party’s Johannesburg regional conference at which his ally, Dada Morero, lost the region’s top leadership position to Loyiso Masuku.

Naledi-Ya-Meso secondary school in Limpopo experienced a complete failure rate in its 2025 matric class due to a combination of factors, including poor management, lack of parental involvement, ill-discipline, and the belief in witchcraft.

There was an instruction from President Cyril Ramaphosa, and agreement between all parties concerned, that Iran was no longer going to participate in the navy exercises in Simon’s Town and False Bay, according to his spokesman Vicent Magwenya.

Prominent EU countries have warned that a US military seizure of a territory in Nato could collapse the military alliance that Washington leads

Uganda’s electoral commission said Museveni had received just under 72% of the vote and his main challenger, Bobi Wine, 24%.

An extortion syndicate is believed to be behind the mass shooting in the Marikana informal settlement in the early hours of Saturday

Trump has not ruled out the use of force to take Greenland, saying it is vital to US security

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine said on Saturday he had escaped a police and army raid on his house.

A Chinese reconnaissance drone briefly flew over the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands at the top end of the South China Sea on Saturday, in what Taiwan’s defence ministry called a “provocative and irresponsible” move.

Ugandan police denied on Saturday allegations by opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party that he had been arrested by soldiers as President Yoweri Museveni closed in on a landslide re-election.

Elon Musk is seeking up to $134b (R2.19-trillion) from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing he deserves the “wrongful gains” they received from his early support of the artificial intelligence startup, according to a court filing on Friday.

A Ukrainian delegation is en route to the US for talks on security guarantees and a post-war recovery package, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, expressing hope the documents could be signed on the sidelines of the WEF in Davos.

Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink, which has served as a lifeline against state-imposed internet blackouts since its deployment during the war in Ukraine.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Friday she was confident that the remnants of what she called Venezuela’s “criminal regime” would eventually be dismantled and there would be an orderly transition to free elections, but cautioned that the ro

A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a legally binding framework to tackle threats such as overfishing and meet a target to protect 30% of the ocean environment by 2030.