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We came for training… they took our passports, burned our clothes, and gave us rifles. Now we’re in the trenches near Chasiv Yar. Every night the drones come. Mama, tell my kids I love them. I don’t know if I’m coming home.

Urgent warning: A dangerous new WhatsApp scam is sweeping South Africa right now, promising fake SARS tax refunds of R2,000–R5,000. The message looks official and demands you “verify” within 24 hours — but clicking the link hands criminals your ID, passwords, and bank details. SARS has confirmed: they NEVER send...

Eskom has brought multiple generating units back online overnight, adding over 2,300 MW to the grid and extending the suspension of load shedding through at least March 2026. After nearly two decades of darkness, the lights are staying on — and the country finally dares to believe the blackout era...

Somalia faces its worst famine in decades — 4.4 million people could be starving by mid-2026. Gift of the Givers has deployed a second emergency team with food, water, and medical aid. South African donors: give before 31 Dec 2025 for full Section 18A tax benefits. One gift saves lives...

In a historic breakthrough at the 2025 Shanghai International Marathon, three South African runners — Thabo Mafata (42nd, 2:12:47), Pieter van der Merwe (67th, 2:14:03), and Kwazi Zuma (89th, 2:15:12) — stormed into the men’s elite top 100, delivering the Rainbow Nation’s strongest performance at the world’s largest marathon in...

Trump’s 30% tariffs from Jan 2026 wipe out AGOA benefits, slamming South Africa’s wine and citrus exports and threatening 40,000+ jobs in the Cape. South Africa’s wine and citrus industries are reeling as U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 30% reciprocal tariffs take effect in January 2026, ending duty-free access under...

Just before sunrise on December 1, 2025, Durban’s iconic North Beach promenade turned from tranquil haven to scene of horror when three young adults were brutally stabbed in an apparent robbery. As over 1.3 million holidaymakers prepare to descend on KwaZulu-Natal’s shores, the shocking daylight attack has triggered a massive...

Joburg faces 12-hour daily water cuts from Dec 2, 2025. High-lying suburbs hit hardest — full list inside + today’s cheapest 5,000L JoJo tank deals to stay hydrated.

As of November 30, 2025, shark nets remain partially removed after the Sardine Run season, leaving popular beaches more exposed than usual. Lifeguards are urging swimmers to stay between the flags, never swim alone, and avoid dawn or dusk dips. With reinstallation delayed by rough seas and memories of last...

In Somalia’s Puntland, nearly one million people — including 130,000 in immediate danger — face famine after four failed rainy seasons. As UN funding pleas go unanswered, South African drought experts from the Eastern Cape are sharing battle-tested survival strategies: community water governance, alien-plant removal that saved 70 million litres...

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has publicly urged President Trump to reverse his exclusion of South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit in Miami and lift crippling 30% tariffs that threaten R10 billion in exports. As Berlin positions itself as Pretoria’s strongest European ally, this intervention highlights the growing strain on...

Over R450 million of Mpumalanga taxpayers’ money has vanished into a half-built “world-class” sports academy that now stands abandoned — leaking reservoirs, unpaid contractors, and allegations of massive tender fraud. While the province’s children train on dirt fields, the skeleton of this flagship project has become the perfect symbol of...

A dramatic clash is brewing between the IEA’s warning of a massive 4 million bpd oil surplus in 2026 and OPEC+’s insistence on a balanced market. The outcome could send Brent crude tumbling toward $55/barrel — potentially slashing South African petrol prices by up to R2 per litre by mid-2026,...

A stronger-than-expected US jobs report has triggered a global risk-off wave, hammering the rand to 17.45 and sending the JSE All Share Index tumbling more than 3% in a week. With the dollar surging and Trump-era tariffs biting harder, South Africa’s markets face prolonged volatility — testing the SARB’s newly...

Three years after Jagersfontein’s toxic dam burst killed residents and buried homes, the DWS report is out: no safety licence, ignored cracks, reckless overload. Criminal charges are mounting and new tailings laws are coming. Justice, at last?

In a explosive family feud, Jacob Zuma’s eldest daughter has accused her half-sister, MK Party MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, of tricking 17 desperate South African men — including their own cousins — into becoming cannon fodder on Russia’s Ukraine frontlines. Promised R50,000 bodyguard jobs turned into Wagner Group contracts and Donbas...

Deadly monsoon floods ravage Indonesia while South Africa’s KZN braces for more storms. How climate change is turning seasonal rains into coastal catastrophes—and what experts say we must do now.

A huge fire razed Dhaka’s Korail slum, leaving 10,000 homeless. Parallels with Johannesburg’s hijacked buildings ignite calls for African diaspora aid and global urban fire relief.

South Africa’s power crisis is finally turning the corner: S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Eskom to B+ with a stable outlook — the first profit in eight years, over 170 days without load-shedding, and plunging diesel costs. Coming just days after the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, this milestone signals cheaper...

Trump’s Nov 26, 2025 Truth Social banishment of South Africa from the 2026 G20 exposes the clash between dying unipolar muscle-flexing and rising multipolar consensus. Built on the long-debunked “white genocide” myth, the snub backfires: Johannesburg delivered a strong Global South declaration without Washington, while Ramaphosa’s defiant “we are sovereign”...

Tembisa Hospital’s R2bn looting scandal explodes: Lesufi vows to expose the masterminds as jailed tenderpreneur ‘Cat’ Matlala alleges R500k bribe to ex-Minister Bheki Cele. Babita Deokaran’s murder still unpunished.

South Africa’s historic Test sweep in India turned sour when coach Shukri Conrad said he wanted India to “grovel” — echoing Tony Greig’s infamous 1976 racist remark. Captain Temba Bavuma reportedly confronted him in the dressing room, exposing raw tensions over language and unity in the Proteas camp.

Forty-eight years after Black Wednesday’s brutal press crackdown, the fight for truth has gone digital. Today, “safety” laws like the UK’s Online Safety Act and EU’s DSA let governments and platforms silence journalists with age gates, fines, and AI filters. Gaza footage vanishes, memes trigger raids, and dissent is shadowbanned....

Fresh from hosting Africa’s first G20 Summit, Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has unleashed a R1 billion war chest to crush crime and fix crumbling services. From hijacked buildings to pothole-riddled suburbs, the promise is clear: the global spotlight that shone on Nasrec will now burn brightly on the streets of...