Nigeria investigates Temu over 12.7m users’ data
Lagos – Nigeria’s Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched an investigation into Chinese low-cost online shopping platform Temu for... Read more
18 Feb
SA unemployment dips to 31.4% — but youth crisis deepens
Cape Town – Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported a slight improvement in the labour market in the... Read more
18 Feb
TERMINAL SLEEPOUT! Travellers count losses as Kenya strike ends
Nairobi – Workers at Kenya’s main airport ended a strike on Tuesday that had caused severe disruptions to flights... Read more
18 Feb
Mudslide strikes Kimberley Mine, workers trapped deep underground
Kimberley – Five mineworkers are reportedly missing after a mudslide struck Tunnel 6 at the Ekapa Mining Joint Shaft,... Read more
17 Feb
Fuel prices on knife-edge: March could hit motorists hard
Cape Town – Mid-month data from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) indicates that South African fuel prices for March... Read more
17 Feb
From cattle kraal to gold frenzy: Johannesburg outskirts booming
Ekurhuleni – The pockmarked earth on Johannesburg’s eastern fringe, until last week a humble cattle kraal ringed with barbed... Read more
17 Feb
Ramaphosa and a stable electricity system in SA: the devils are in the detail
Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University The strategic significance of the reference to energy reform in South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s... Read more
17 Feb
Does SA have a future without power cuts? Ramaphosa intervenes, but the drama isn’t over
Rod Crompton, University of the Witwatersrand South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his 2026 State of the Nation address,... Read more
16 Feb
Zambia slams door on SA cattle — imports and transit banned amid foot-and-mouth outbreak
Pretoria – Zambia has reportedly banned and suspended all livestock imports and transit from South Africa with immediate effect... Read more
16 Feb
Save our herds! 450 cattle jabbed as Western Cape fights economic disaster
Cape Town – As South Africa grapples with a nationwide outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the Western Cape has... Read more
16 Feb
