Year: 2026
News24 | Roedean board chair resigns; Inside Russia’s plan to target DA: Today’s top 7 stories
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Continue ReadingNews24 | Judge slams Trump administration after removal of Philadelphia slavery exhibit
A judge in the United States has ordered the National Park Service (NPS) to restore an exhibit about nine people who were enslaved by former president George Washington at a historical site in the city of Philadelphia.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Three men convicted of premeditated murder of North West farm worker
Dumisani Phakathi was collecting water from a furrow on a farm in Brits – as he had done many times before – when he was accosted and viciously beaten to death by Jaco Kemp, Louis Coetzee and Gert van der Westhuizen.
Continue ReadingNews24 | War veterans challenge Zimbabwe constitutional changes to keep Mnangagwa in power
Veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation war mounted a court challenge on Tuesday to proposed changes to the constitution that would extend presidential terms from five years to seven, allowing President Emmerson Mnangagwa to stay in office until 2030.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Australia PM Albanese expresses ‘firm view’ of no help to return citizens from Syria
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that his government will not repatriate Australian women and children from Syria who have been identified as relatives of suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Unemployment rate falls to lowest in five years
The official unemployment rate decreased by 0.5 of a percentage point to 31.4% in the last quarter of 2025 - the lowest number since the third quarter of 2020.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Probe finds Roedean forfeited tennis match with King David because of academic workshops
An independent probe has found that Roedean School forfeited a tennis match against King David High because the fixture clashed with academic workshops scheduled at the same time as the event.
Continue ReadingNews24 | New US ambassador Brent Bozell arrives in SA, amid fraught relations
A conservative media critic picked by US President Donald Trump to be US ambassador to South Africa has arrived to take up his post, the US embassy said, as relations between the countries remain fraught.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Parents want answers after child is killed by falling goalpost at Tembisa school
Angered parents were at the Reagile Primary School in Tembisa on Tuesday where a 10-year-old pupil died after goalposts allegedly fell on him.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Public Protector says senior staff will investigate Gcaleka’s ‘romantic partner’
Public Protector and advocate Kholeka Gcaleka says the distance between her and any investigation in which she may have a personal interest “is as clear as day”.
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