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Pope Leo will hold a general audience with pilgrims at the Vatican on 20 October, ‌for the first time since undergoing surgery ⁠for lung cancer, the Vatican said.

Four Mpumalanga pupils won a national entrepreneurship competition with an AI-powered walking cane designed for blind and visually impaired people.

The Gauteng Department of Education was the largest contributor to the R20.7 billion in irregular expenditure incurred by provincial education departments in the financial year ending in March.

A company that ran the ANC’s 2019 election digital campaign has approached the court for R40 million in unpaid debt and wants the court to freeze the party’s public funding before it is spent on 2026 electioneering.

Herman Mostert recaps the SA teams’ fortunes in Round 1 of the Champions and Challenge Cup events.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Ukraine and Russia should focus on ending their war.

South Africa can learn from its BRICS peers on how to manage its relationship with Russia, writes Ofentse Donald Davhie.

Japan’s Yakuza once operated in plain sight – with business cards, offices and lapel badges. Then Japan closed every door between the criminal world and the legitimate one. South Africa needs to do the same, writes Geordin Hill-Lewis.

Investec says there is a better-than-even chance that SA claws its way back to investment grade by 2028 - provided global macroeconomic conditions do not derail the turnaround.

Congolese “blesser” Serge Cabonge has been chasing fame for years, but often grabs headlines through his proximity to high-profile crimes: from the failed hit on actress Tebogo Thobejane to the shooting of a young man at Bellarmine Mugabe’s lavish Hyde Park property.

Porsche has unleashed its latest 911 Turbo S, and it’s an insane beast. Janine van der Post drives it, whips her hair back, and goes from zero to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds.

Just Travel SA takes Pearl Thusi and Lungile Radu to all nine provinces with three different budgets: Smart, Flexi, and Luxury. They talk about the places that surprised them, the people who stayed with them, and what the country taught them that the city never could.

The US wants to spend millions persuading Afrikaners they are victims of genocide – but the real threat to South Africa’s sovereignty is the madness of entertaining the lie, writes Max du Preez.

South Africa’s smaller open-pit miners are fighting to stay in business as fuel costs keep climbing.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has returned to his desk at Luthuli House after he collapsed at the Constitutional Court last Thursday.

When Ralph Stanfield, the alleged leader of the feared 28s gang, and his wife Nicole Johnson enter the dock of the Western Cape High Court this week, it will kick off a mammoth, make-or-break organised crime trial for the National Prosecuting Authority.

South Africa’s traditionally strongest franchises are off with a welcome flourish in the Champions or Challenge Cups, writes Rob Houwing.

A roofless, abandoned clinic, no running water or electricity, distant schools and police – and politicians who appear only before elections. In Taung’s Ward 18, residents say years of broken promises have left them fighting a daily struggle to survive.

Puleng Dimpane and Andy Mothibi are leading organisations in crisis, doing largely thankless jobs in difficult circumstances. There are some hints of real progress in the reports, and steps taken, but no admission of the scale of the problem, writes Jean Redpath.

As the local government elections on 4 November approach, nine mayoral candidates from Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Ekurhuleni have stepped away from the traditional campaign trail. Instead, they are engaging directly with the people who matter most: the residents they aspire to lead.