Year: 2025
News24 | Cheers! Political parties ring in 2025 with wishes of prosperity for South Africa
As we bid farewell to another year, political parties from across the spectrum have extended their heartfelt wishes for the new year to South Africans.
Continue ReadingNews24 | John Matisonn | What if Jimmy Carter had won a second presidential term?
The death of America's 39th president, Jimmy Carter, left John Matisonn pondering "what if". He writes that Carter was ahead of his time when it came to renewable energy and laid the foundations of America's southern African policy at the time.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘A long, difficult year’: Cape Town mayor reflects on extortion, scandals and evictions in 2024
"It has been a long and difficult year," says Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis as he described what it was like to hold the reins at the City of Cape Town during a drama-packed 2024.
Continue ReadingNews24 | From Boks to Bafana, here is SA sport’s bucket list for 2025
The South African sporting calendar will be full of events throughout the new year that will keep fans thoroughly entertained. News24 looks at what could be on the bucket list of SA sports fans.
Continue ReadingNews24 | After its previous ‘sad’ exhibit, SA bails on the 2025 World Expo
After its exhibition at the previous World Expo was roundly slated, South Africa has opted to sit out the 2025 event in Japan due to "fiscal constraints".
Continue ReadingNews24 | Adriaan Basson | Who will rule the roost and call the shots in 2025?
2025 is, in many ways, an in-between year. No big elections for either the country or the top parties. And the hosting of the G20 will take up a lot of capacity from the government to show the world what we could do, writes Adriaan...
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘I’ve lost faith in justice system’: One year on, cops still don’t know who shot US tourist in Nyanga
It has been more than a year since US tourist Walter Fischel was brutally attacked and shot in the face during a hijacking in Nyanga shortly after landing at Cape Town International Airport for a holiday in Simon's Town.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Wendy Knowler | You’re grounded! How passengers behaving badly on flights can land in hot water
A plane is the last place you should behave badly - you will be escorted off it if it’s still on the ground, or restrained if it’s airborne. Not only do cabin crew have the legal right to restrain you with "flex cuffs", fellow passengers...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Deputy President Paul Mashatile cracks whip on errant ministers dodging parliamentary questions
Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called for errant ministers, who have dodged answering MPs' written questions in the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces (NCOP), to be brought to heel.
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