The ANC’s plan to expand free basic electricity from 50kWh to 300kWh for indigent households faces warnings of a heavy fiscal burden, fragile municipal finances, investor unease and accusations of electioneering as the party’s manifesto...
– Norway plans to regulate the use of smart glasses and similar devices and is considering a ban on features that enable facial recognition in public spaces. Smart glasses allow the wearer to shoot photos and videos, listen to music, take...
More than 200 inmates have died under correctional services supervision in the first quarter of the 2026-27 financial year. While natural deaths accounted for 157 instances, unnatural deaths among inmates spiked from 24 in the previous...
Harpist Gaylen-Rose Sales of the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, which performed yesterday. The orchestra, launched in 2022, had a successful local tour, Voices of Home, last year.
– China has told its citizens to immediately leave Eswatini, citing security risks in the African nation that is one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies. China claims Taiwan is part of its territory and opposes the self-governed...
– A flight attendant in France has succeeded in having her breast cancer recognised as an occupational disease, a first for the country’s aviation industry, her lawyer and a trade union said. The ruling – which recognised that Sophie...
– Australian police said yesterday they were on the hunt for thieves who made off with hundreds of thousands of oysters. The molluscs have an estimated value of A$350 000 (about R4 million) and were lifted from an oyster farm near the town of...
– A US military strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Tuesday killed four people, officials said. US Southern Command said on X the strike targeted a vessel “operating along established narco trafficking routes...
