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Former session musician Thabo Mngomezulu has earned Young Mandela 2025 recognition for converting organic waste into affordable biogas and fertiliser through his company, Kasi Gas, transforming energy access in his rural community.
Born and raised in Gqberha, Eastern Cape, Yolisa Singaphi, 28, a finance graduate turned social entrepreneur, is batting for young people in Johannesburg through her education foundation Empowered Futures, and hosts a flagship cricket festival with the Temba Bavuma Foundation.
Ryan Young and Yeshav Sewlal revolutionised youth political engagement by creating ‘Yoh, Vote’, a Tinder-style app matching South Africans with political parties, reaching 87 000 users and earning recognition as News24 Young Mandelas for 2025.
Higher Education and Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane snubbed Parliament by failing to attend a meeting in which she was supposed to account for the administrative mess relating to her controversial appointment of Sector Education and Training Authority chairpersons.
A Stellenbosch University researcher has designed a prototype blockchain-based voucher system that would allow donors to transparently provide essential goods through digital tokens that preserve community-level giving in an increasingly cashless society.
South Africa has accepted an offer of just over $29 million (about R520 million) from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, that research shows could help to end Aids in the country, says health department spokesperson Foster Mohale.
Deputy national police commissioner for crime detection, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya, has been asked to take a leave of absence following explosive allegations about links to criminal syndicates and interference in politically motivated murder investigations.
City Power escalated its debt recovery efforts on Friday with targeted disconnections across key areas in Johannesburg served by the Hursthill Service Delivery Centre, which covers regions that include Mayfair, Industria, Melville and Auckland Park.
There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of skeletal deformities in mummies, which serves as silent markers of a tenacious bug still stalking us today: tuberculosis (TB).
The Athlone Magistrate’s Court has provisionally withdrawn the case against siblings Wanda and Sindiswa Mbele, who are accused of orchestrating a life insurance scam that allegedly led to the murders of Noem My Skollie actor David Manuel and his friend, Alfonso Fisher.