Sunday World News Updates

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) has frozen party spending and delayed payments to structures while paying hundreds of thousands of rand for private security for its secretary-general, Sibonelo Nomvalo. An invoice from Real Squad Security shows the party was billed R336 000 for security services for “SG” (secretary-general) in… Read more »

Two men have been arrested after Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers discovered a hijacked government vehicle being stripped and allegedly found human organs at a house in Naledi, Soweto. The arrests were made on Thursday evening following a tip-off about a vehicle allegedly being dismantled at a residence on… Read more »

Jacky Molisane, the now acting director-general of employment and labour, was among Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) officials who escaped with what amounted to a slap on the wrist over an alleged dodgy contract. A forensic investigation found failures in the approval chain of a R22.4-million contract driven by Gupta-linked… Read more »

Two people were killed and seven others, including an infant, were injured in a shooting in Wesbank in the early hours of Sunday, police said. Western Cape police have opened two murder cases and seven attempted murder cases. The South African Police Service (SAPS) said officers responded to a complaint… Read more »

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi will travel to Washington on Monday at the head of a delegation after an official invitation, government spokesperson Haider al-Aboudi said in a media conference on Sunday. “The agreements to be signed will include several memorandums of understanding in the oil and gas sector as… Read more »

African countries have secured an additional $900-million in commitments to expand access to clean cooking, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said after a high-level virtual meeting this week. The new pledges bring total commitments to more than $3.1-billion since the inaugural summit in Paris in 2024, where governments, development banks… Read more »

The legal battle over Tshwane City Manager Johann Mettler’s suspension has shifted from the council chamber to court, with his lawyers challenging the legality of the decision that removed the municipality’s accounting officer from office. Mettler, through Solidarity, has placed the suspension resolution under judicial scrutiny, arguing that the city… Read more »

President Cyril Ramaphosa has issued a call to action to the global community, warning that international education targets will remain out of reach unless nations fundamentally transform how they treat and compensate their teaching workforce. Addressing the Transforming Education Summit in Paris, Ramaphosa said the teaching profession stands at the… Read more »

A forensic investigation by Denel has found that former interim group CEO Mike Kgobe did not commit fraud or dishonesty by approving a backdated acting allowance; instead, his decision was deemed reasonable and the issue stemmed from differing opinions between two acting chief executives. The findings are contained in a… Read more »

Egypt’s current account deficit more than doubled to $5.1 billion (R83bn) in the January-March quarter from $2.3bn a year earlier, central bank data showed on Sunday. • Net foreign direct investment inflows edged down to $3.7bn from $3.8bn in the same period of 2025. • The central bank attributed the… Read more »