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Sponsors have rescued the Grey College v Outeniqua rugby derby after soaring fuel prices forced the George school to cancel. Outeniqua faces R1.4 million in travel costs for just two away games this term.

Chris Brown pleaded guilty to affray over a 2023 London nightclub brawl, avoiding trial on more serious charges

Russia believes US President Donald Trump is sincere in his efforts to end the Ukraine war and will wait ‌for Washington to put forward new proposals, ⁠even though the US is continuing to provide weapons to Kyiv, the Kremlin ⁠said on Friday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has won a court order pausing his impeachment proceedings pending a September review of the independent panel’s report. But the victory is narrower than it appears, constitutional experts say.

After being screened at film festivals around the world, the South African supernatural thriller The Trek premiered in Cape Town on Thursday.

Rand Merchant Bank has opened an advisory office in Beijing to capitalise on the increasing trade, infrastructure, and green energy-related financial flows between Asia and Africa.

A report by the Institute for Security Studies and the University of Johannesburg, which refutes several widespread anti-immigrant claims, says the real causes of social ills in South Africa are poor governance and corruption, not immigration.

Impeachment hearings into President Cyril Ramaphosa, and the notorious dollars in his couch, are on hold for now.

Luggage-laden residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid as wildfires swept France and Spain, triggering states of emergency and calls for EU help.

A former military contractor has told the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that former defence minister and ex-National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula demanded R250 000 for “padkos” money for a trip to Gqeberha.

There was no “silver bullet” to solve the water crisis in municipalities, but the actions contained in the National Water Action Plan “will secure our water supply for years and decades to come”, President Cyril Ramaphosa said as he released the plan on Thursday.

The boreholes had existed for three years before the National Lotteries Commission grant was awarded to the Mshandukani Foundation.

“Sharks first” is the likely gateway for him, but Baby Boks captain Siphosethu “Esethu” Mnebelele could soon enough boast a full Springbok jersey, predicts Rob Houwing.

The rand remained under pressure on Friday after the South African Reserve Bank’s unexpected decision to hold its policy rate at 7%, defying market expectations of a hike.

The City of Ekurhuleni had some of its furniture attached this week over a dispute with the sheriff of the court.

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban has ordered a Nigerian woman’s legal team to forfeit their fees in full and repay any money she had already paid them.

The Government Employees Pension Fund has reassured members that the events at the Public Investment Corporation will not affect pension payments.

South Africans may have been spared an interest rate hike this week, but the outlook for fuel and goods prices has definitely soured.

A quiet farming town north of Cape Town has been the latest battleground for gangs, with bullets flying over what experts say could be the lucrative drug trade.

A raft of new corporate taxes that could erode banks’ profitability is testing Mauritius’s long-standing status as a low-tax gateway for cross-border capital, according to Moody’s Ratings.