Author: staff
From Playboy magazines, gambling, wanting to run naked with Mrs Oppenheimer, using the k-word, being a descendant of the Khoisan, and tales of the Stellenbosch mafia to doing the bidding of Jacob Zuma, diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg’s bail application was laden with superfluous information.
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed a non-governmental organisation’s urgent application for the go-ahead to provide humanitarian aid to illegal miners who refuse to come out of an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein in the North West.
Industrial and consumer group Barloworld reported that demand pressure in both SA and Russia weighed on its results in 2024. However, its equipment business in Mongolia continues to outperform and it has still upped its shareholder payout.
Western Cape whale season is in full swing, with more than a hundred of these majestic marine creatures already spotted across the False Bay coastline. However, four carcasses have had to be removed from various beaches in the province so far, which is no easy feat.
On a random road trip, News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post met a gentleman with the biggest collection of diecast model cars she’s ever seen. Even more random is that his passion is smack-bang in the middle of his funeral business. Meet Mitch Jantjies, the People’s Undertaker in Ceres.
Leaked files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) show how a Dubai-based gold trader cozied up to the Swazi king’s son-in-law to allegedly launder money from South Africa to Dubai through the tiny African kingdom.
COP is expensive and shameful, not only because of the large delegations of government officials that travel there to achieve so little, but also because of the global activist corps that makes up a big part of the 50 000 registered participants, writes Carol Paton.
In June of 2020, a renewable energy company owned by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani won what it called the single largest solar development bid ever awarded: an agreement to supply 8 gigawatts of electricity to a state-owned power company.
The US Department of Justice has filed a case against Apple, alleging that it violated antitrust laws. The DOJ believes Apple – who has sought to have the case dismissed – has built a monopoly using a locked-in iPhone ecosystem. The authors explain.
Unbeknown to a Durban woman, the man she was married to for 32 years also married a “Christoffel Jacobus” on the same day, according to Home Affairs records. She had a valid marriage certificate, but couldn’t receive her late husband’s pension.