Sunday World News Updates

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) expects passenger trips on the Mabopane rail corridor to reach 10-million during the current financial year as government steps up efforts to restore commuter rail services and protect infrastructure from vandalism. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy made the announcement during an oversight visit… Read more »

Mamelodi Sundowns may be involved in the CAF Champions League second preliminary round clash against Wiliete SC of Angola on Sunday, but they have a lot to think about after they were drawn against the unpredictable Marumo Gallants in the Carling knockout Cup. Gallants knocked them out of the same… Read more »

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula ended a turbulent week with a major legal victory for the party, but the Constitutional Court ruling did little to settle questions about his leadership style. The court ruled in the ANC’s favour on Thursday in its bid to have 181 councillor candidates reinstated after the… Read more »

The Constitutional Court judgment favouring the ANC to allow the party to amend the list of councillor candidates submitted to the IEC has created mixed reaction from political parties on Thursday. This comes after the ANC had lost the case at the Electoral Court, where the IEC had argued that… Read more »

The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has fingered the “Afrikaner-led counter revolution” for damaging post-apartheid South Africa as tensions between Washington and Pretoria persist owing to a bogus “white genocide” narrative sponsored by Afrikaner lobby groups operating in the country. This is contained in a detailed and frank discussion document by the… Read more »

A bipartisan group of eight US states said on Wednesday they had ​sued OpenAI in courts across the country over harms they ‌say ChatGPT has caused to their residents, alleging the chatbot has coached its users – including teenagers, to harm themselves or others. Attorneys general from the states, which… Read more »

The first clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine in the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to begin by the end of October, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. The country’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak has surpassed 9,000 cases, with more than 4,000 deaths. The outbreak is caused by the… Read more »

Sub-Saharan Africa’s inflation outlook has worsened since April even as growth held up better than expected, the IMF said, warning that the region’s hard-won economic gains remain fragile. The fund upgraded its 2026 growth forecast for the region to 4.5% from 4.3% back in April, citing global supply adjustments and… Read more »

The African National Congress (ANC) in OR Tambo region has welcomed the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) ruling allowing the party’s 181 councillor candidates to contest the November 4 local government elections, however, the region insists that the party’s Secretary-General’s Office (SGO) led by Fikile Mbalula must account for failing to submit… 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 »