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How Joburg Locals and South Africans Can Save Money After the December Splurge
3+ hour, 1+ min ago (801+ words) Best of Johannesburg Motoring In Johannesburg, January has a reputation. Wallets feel lighter, debit orders hit hard, and school fees arrive before the first proper paycheque. Locals even have a name for it. Januworry. After festive season braais, road trips,…...
Cape Town Child Murders Shock Communities as Calls for Action Grow
3+ week, 1+ day ago (666+ words) 411 Artificial Intelligence Consumer controversies Elite education News Rich lists Salaries net worth Wealth and Success Cape Town is facing one of its most distressing weeks in recent memory after a wave of violent attacks left four children dead and two…...
US-South Africa Relations to Improve Post-Trump | Experts Weigh In
4+ week, 19+ hour ago (499+ words) Relations between Pretoria and Washington may have hit a rough patch under former President Donald Trump, but experts say the ties are far from severed. Analysts argue that while tensions could deepen temporarily, the two nations are too strategically intertwined…...
Gen Z Could Slash ANC Support to 26%, Says Phosa
4+ week, 1+ day ago (762+ words) South Africa's political landscape is shifting, not gradually, but sharply, and right under the ANC's feet. According to party veteran Mathews Phosa, the ruling party's biggest threat isn't an opposition alliance, a factional battle, or even the economy. It's something…...
Northern Cape murder sentence after fatal cigarette dispute
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (543+ words) People in smaller South African towns often describe evenings as quiet moments when neighbours settle into familiar routines. That sense of calm was shattered in Malaykamp in Sunrise, De Aar, when a simple disagreement over a cigarette became a moment…...
Germany Warns Trump as US–SA Relations Sour Over G20 Exclusion
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (804+ words) When Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz stepped up to a podium in Berlin this week, he didn't mince his words. The growing political frost between Washington and Pretoria, he warned, is not just a South African problem, it's a strategic blunder…...
New US Senate Bill Threatens to Exclude South Africa from AGOA
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (394+ words) A political storm is brewing in Washington that could deliver a seismic shock to the South African economy. A new bill introduced in the US Senate, while seeking to renew the vital African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), explicitly calls…...
Cape Town Shop Employee Traps Robbers in Viral Security Move
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (471+ words) In what could have ended in panic and danger, a Cape Town shop worker's quick thinking has turned an attempted robbery into a viral internet sensation. CCTV footage, circulating widely on social media, shows four armed suspects entering a store,…...
Thousands Expected at Sea Point Promenade for G20 Women’s Shutdown
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) Cape Town is preparing for one of its most powerful demonstrations of the year as thousands are expected to descend on Sea Point Promenade for the G20 Women's Shutdown. Led by NGO Women for Change, the action aims to highlight the…...
DA Calls for Expanded Powers for Cape Town Metro Police After Seven Killed
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (528+ words) Cape Town is once again in mourning after a series of shootings on Wednesday claimed seven lives across the city reigniting political pressure on government to strengthen metro policing powers. The violence erupted in several neighbourhoods, each incident adding to…...