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News24 | SA borrows R25bn from World Bank for infrastructure

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:44pm
South Africa secured a $1.5 billion (almost R25 billion) World Bank loan to help modernise the country’s infrastructure and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the continent’s largest economy.

News24 | Swimmer Roland Schoeman is engaged: ‘The ring burned a hole in my pocket for two years’

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:41pm
The swimming legend swept his girlfriend off her feet with a romantic proposal in the Caribbean

News24 | ‘Our smiles are now relentless tears’: Plettenberg family mourns drowned boy, 3

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:24pm
“He was just a small, curious little boy who wanted to be with his friends. Now he’s gone.” Those are the heartbreaking words of Tumi Mkeke, whose three-year-old son, Onumiyo, drowned after slipping into a muddy stormwater pond while washing his hands with two friends before heading home to New Horizons in Plettenberg Bay on Friday afternoon.

News24 | ‘Our smiles are now relentless tears’: Plettenberg family mourns drowned boy, 3

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:24pm
“He was just a small, curious little boy who wanted to be with his friends. Now he’s gone.” Those are the heartbreaking words of Tumi Mkeke, whose three-year-old son, Onumiyo, drowned after slipping into a muddy stormwater pond while washing his hands with two friends before heading home to New Horizons in Plettenberg Bay on Friday afternoon.

News24 | Slain Emfuleni whistleblower reported R16m fleet fraud days before assassination

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:14pm
The embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality’s controversial R16-million fleet tender was among several flagged by slain whistleblower Martha Mani Rantsofu before her assassination, police have revealed.

News24 | Slain Emfuleni whistleblower reported R16m fleet fraud days before assassination

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:14pm
The embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality’s controversial R16-million fleet tender was among several flagged by slain whistleblower Martha Mani Rantsofu before her assassination, police have revealed.

News24 | Gunshots and silence: Children of two Gqeberha sergeants rescued from home after murder

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:13pm
Two young children had to be rescued from their Gqeberha home after discovering the bloodied bodies of their parents, two married police officers, who died in a hail of bullets in an apparent murder-suicide incident.

News24 | Gunshots and silence: Children of two Gqeberha sergeants rescued from home after murder

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:13pm
Two young children had to be rescued from their Gqeberha home after discovering the bloodied bodies of their parents, two married police officers, who died in a hail of bullets in an apparent murder-suicide incident.

News24 | SA’s Jarvis shines on Open debut at Royal Birkdale: ‘I didn’t see myself finish top 10’

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 2:02pm
It was a debut to remember for South Africa’s Casey Jarvis, whose flawless final-round 66 at Royal Birkdale earned him an outstanding top-10 finish at the Open Championship.

News24 | From Madonna to Muppets: FIFA delivers spectacular, if slightly strange, halftime show

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 1:50pm
Sunday’s World Cup half-time show during the final between Spain and Argentina proved to be a high-profile spectacle fitting for such a massive global event.

News24 | Transnet seeks private operator for Cape Town Port multipurpose terminal

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 1:07pm
Whoever wins the tender will operate the terminal for 25 years before returning it to TNPA.

News24 | OPINION | The missing voter disguises itself as a statistic, but it’s a campaign failure

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:57pm
With 13.5 million eligible South Africans still unregistered before November’s election, the missing voter isn’t a logistics problem for the electoral commission to solve - it’s a mobilisation failure that only targeted, ward-level political campaigning can close, writes Nyasha Mcbride Mpani.

News24 | Ekurhuleni faces R7bn debt crisis, Eskom and Rand Water among top creditors

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:44pm
The City of Ekurhuleni owes its creditors more than R7 billion, with the bulk of the figure owed to Eskom.

News24 | Ekurhuleni faces R7bn debt crisis, Eskom and Rand Water among top creditors

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:44pm
The City of Ekurhuleni owes its creditors more than R7 billion, with the bulk of the figure owed to Eskom.

News24 | DA proposes legislation to depoliticise PIC

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:36pm
The DA intends to introduce a Private Members’ Bill to loosen politicians’ grip on the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and safeguard state employees’ pensions from what DA MP and finance spokesperson Mark Burke calls a “bonfire of governance”.

News24 | DA proposes legislation to depoliticise PIC

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:36pm
The DA intends to introduce a Private Members’ Bill to loosen politicians’ grip on the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and safeguard state employees’ pensions from what DA MP and finance spokesperson Mark Burke calls a “bonfire of governance”.

News24 | Tembisa Hospital tycoon Maumela’s luxury cars, mansions, boats worth R325m forfeited to State

News24 South Africa - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:19pm
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has granted the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) a final forfeiture order allowing the State to permanently seize luxury assets worth hundreds of millions of rands linked to alleged Tembisa Hospital tender kingpin Hangwani Morgan Maumela.

News24 | Tembisa Hospital tycoon Maumela’s luxury cars, mansions, boats worth R325m forfeited to State

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:19pm
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has granted the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) a final forfeiture order allowing the State to permanently seize luxury assets worth hundreds of millions of rands linked to alleged Tembisa Hospital tender kingpin Hangwani Morgan Maumela.

News24 | Andy Burnham officially appointed as British Prime Minister

News24 World - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:17pm
Britain’s King Charles III appointed Andy Burnham as Prime Minister after outgoing Keir Starmer officially tendered his resignation, the palace said.

News24 | Andy Burnham officially appointed as British Prime Minister

News24 Top Stories - Mon, 20/07/2026 - 12:17pm
Britain’s King Charles III appointed Andy Burnham as Prime Minister after outgoing Keir Starmer officially tendered his resignation, the palace said.
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