Sunday World News Updates

South Africa will open its payments system to non-bank operators, including telecoms firms, fintechs and retailers, from the middle of next year, a central bank official said on Friday, as part of a major overhaul of the system. The change would end banks’ long-standing dominance of South Africa’s payments processing… Read more »

At a time when millions of young South Africans are struggling to find work, Mpumalanga entrepreneur Lebo Mashigo has turned her mother’s backyard egg business into a commercial poultry enterprise producing nearly a million eggs a month and employing 20 people. The 35-year-old founder of Eggsellent by Lebo has built… Read more »

Chief executives at the country’s largest listed companies enjoyed another lucrative year as bonus and long-term incentive payouts surged, even as women and black professionals remained severely under-represented in the upper ranks of corporate South Africa, according to PwC’s 2026 Directors Remuneration and Trends Report. Median total remuneration for CEOs… Read more »

The local reaction to the executive order US President Donald Trump issued on February 7, regarding the South African government’s “egregious actions” was a search for scapegoats in the country. The ANC secretary-general accused AfriForum and Solidarity of spreading “misinformation” regarding a “genocide” against Afrikaans-speaking farmers. A large segment of… Read more »

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana faces a delicate balancing act when he delivers Tuesday’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), with stronger-than-expected public finances giving Treasury room to manoeuvre but slowing economic growth, rising spending pressures and stubbornly high unemployment limiting its options. Investors, businesses and households will be looking beyond the… Read more »

A four-year battle over withheld matric results has reached the Constitutional Court, where former Mpumalanga learners are fighting to reclaim their educational futures after a legal setback overturned an earlier judgment ordering the release of their examination results. The government has indicated its intention to oppose the Constitutional Court application,… Read more »

Forty-nine years ago, the state walked into a newsroom and switched off the lights, confident the darkness would stay. It didn’t. Next year will be 50 years since October 19, 1977 – Black Wednesday. Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger banned The World and Weekend World newspapers, Pro Veritate and 19 Black… Read more »

The outcomes of a four-year study tracking learners from Grade R to Grade 3 in 75 Western Cape schools have revealed a stark difference in learning outcomes. The Roots & Shoots study found that by Grade 3, only 36% of learners in low-fee schools and 49% in no-fee schools had… Read more »

As a labour federation that represents the working class and the poor, Cosatu must draw lessons from other leftist and revolutionary movements across the globe. At the height of the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, led by Daniel Ortega of the Sandinistas, the party sought to deliver the highly sought dividend… Read more »

Health regulators have issued a warning to pharmacies not to operate as small-scale manufacturers as the country’s regulations regarding the customisation of medications, including popular GLP-1 therapies for diabetes and weight loss, are being updated. This week the South African Pharmacy Council Registrar and CEO Vincent Tlala stated that the… Read more »