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Gold at $5 000/oz by the end of the decade did not feel an outlandish scenario 12 months ago. It feels frankly conservative now, argues Jim Luke.

Maya Fisher-French explains how the VAT hike would have impacted banking fees - and why Capitec customers would have experienced a 7% fee increase.

An Australian boatbuilder launched what it described as the world's largest electric-powered ship on Friday, a 130-metre behemoth capable of carrying 2,100 passengers.

Meta on Saturday vowed to fight Nigerian fines for various consumer data violations as the US tech giant reportedly threatened to cut off Facebook and Instagram in Africa's most populous country.

First team schoolboy rugby fixtures and results from this week's Wildeklawer Festival in Kimberley.

Eight OPEC+ member countries on Saturday announced a sharp increase in oil production for the month of June at the risk of driving down already very low prices.

A 43-year-old company director is expected to appear in the Evander Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly defrauding a bank by using falsified documents to obtain a R1-million overdraft, which would have seen one of his two companies benefit from the loan.

While singer Tyla has "made it", there are invisible women - some of whom are delighting in the singer's raunchy moves - but whom our nation-building choices have marginalised behind various gendered stereotypes and ignorance of our past, writes Darlene Ajeet Miller.

Holly, a brave dachshund-cross dog, was heroically reunited with her owner, Peter Deering, this week after surviving three days on a mountain engulfed by flames in Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town.

In its long-running legal battle to take control of baggage security screening, the Airports Company on SA (ACSA) was dealt another blow on Friday.

The governemnt has decided to close the South African embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, effective from 30 June this year.

Crawford alumni Thato Ramoshaba and Lebaka Morallane are launching OffCourse?!, a social media platform tackling bullying, hate speech, and addictive behaviors. Inspired by personal struggles, it combines AI and human moderation to create a safe digital space.

President Donald Trump spent his first 100 days issuing a blitz of executive orders to deliver rapidly on campaign pledges, drastically downsize the government and reshape America's role on the global stage.

The Cape Town communities of Vrygrond and Capricorn are reeling from months of deadly violence linked to a turf war between taxi operators and the JFK gang, which has claimed dozens of lives since March.

Mercedes chief Toto Wolff believes his former star driver Lewis Hamilton will be back to his best despite a difficult start to life with Ferrari.

The three police officers whose bodies were recovered from the Hennops River this week will be honoured with official funerals.

Walter Tebogo Letsie, the chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, is in hot water after he was accused of making "unfounded and defamatory" remarks about the University of Limpopo during media interviews.

Terrible things are happening in the United States. Horrible things. Some people say the most horrible things ever. For Jan Gerber and Karyn Maughan, who reported on state capture, these things are all too familiar.

When it comes to old school and elder statesman, Jeff Radebe ticks all the boxes. From exile, MK and a stint on Robben Island, to 25 years in government, followed by the thankless task of “renewing" the party in KwaZulu-Natal. Anneliese Burgess talks to him about all this, plus his new-found love for spaghetti Bolognese, and music being first love.

In this week's Braai Briefing, Jonathan Ancer brings you nature’s gentle giants and human nutters, so grab a chop, crack a cold one, and dive into wacky stories about slimy snails, cosmic snoops, and finger-yanking lunatics in lederhosen that made international headlines this week.