Sunday World News Updates

South African youth have registered to vote in record numbers this year. In the Electoral Commission’s August registration weekend alone, 46% of new registrations came from voters under the age of 29. In total, the IEC added 754 000 new voters across the June and August registration weekends, most of… Read more »

A joint operation by the South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI, commonly known as the Hawks) has uncovered a multi-million rand illicit drug manufacturing laboratory situated on a farm in Krugersdorp, Gauteng. In a statement, police say that law enforcement officers… Read more »

Samsung Electronics smashed records with its third-quarter operating profit, marking its fourth consecutive quarter of historic earnings, a regulatory filing showed Thursday. The South Korean tech giant reported a preliminary operating profit of 107.4 trillion won (about R1.34-trillion) in the July-September quarter, up 782.5% from a year earlier. The profit… Read more »

Thirty kilometres outside Ventersdorp, in the North West countryside, a fish farm is quietly demonstrating what economic transformation can look like when government support meets persistence, reinvestment, and a market willing to buy. At Mathotshe Business Enterprise in Doornkop, Salome Mathobela now produces about 14 tonnes of fish a year.… Read more »

Lotto results for Wednesday, October 7 2026 Lotto:              09| 10| 16| 23| 29| 33        Bonus Ball: 47 Lotto Plus 1:    15| 19| 24| 42| 46| 51        Bonus Ball: 01 Lotto MAX 5:    03| 05| 24| 40|… Read more »

MK Party mayoral candidate for the City of Joburg, Bongani Baloyi, has put political instability and poor financial management as the central reasons why the city collapsed within the past five years. Baloyi said this during his campaign trail which reached one of the poorest parts of the city – … Read more »

A 65-year-old Mpumalanga pensioner has landed in a jail cell after learning that South Africa’s elite corruption-busting unit had obtained a warrant for his arrest over an alleged R1.5-million municipal fraud dating back almost four years. Henry Swart, a former Govan Mbeki Local Municipality employee who is now retired, handed… Read more »

Chanting and whistles cut through the day as workers poured out of Cosatu House to fill the streets of Johannesburg with placards raising demand for decent work. The federation embarked on a national strike and day of action, turning the streets into a moving protest against what the federation described… Read more »

Even though Cristiano Ronaldo finally broke his silence over his Portugal walkout, and mentioned that he is not retiring from the national team, the global superstar still accused Portugal’s new head coach Jorge Jesus of broken promises in his lengthy statement to his almost billion Instagram followers. “If I am… Read more »

Credit ratings agency Moody’s has upgraded its outlook for sub-Saharan Africa to positive, citing economic reforms, resilient growth, stronger commodity prices and improved access to financing as key factors supporting the region’s fiscal recovery. The agency said countries across the region have largely weathered recent inflationary pressures, helping to stabilise… Read more »