Author: staff
Minutes after pleading guilty to eight charges related to the murder of his girlfriend Vicki Terblanche, Reinhardt Leach claimed Vicki was the one who started the conspiracy to murder her estranged husband and father of her son. However, she was the one who ended up dead.
Futures linked to the tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled on Monday as the overwhelming popularity of an inexpensive Chinese artificial intelligence model sparked a selloff in AI-related shares, with megacap stocks including Nvidia the worst hit.
The brutal murder of 5-year-old Ameer Abrahams from Manenberg has again highlighted the problem with unlicenced firearms on the streets of the Cape Flats, with crime experts and community activists urging the police to prioritise removing guns from the streets.
JSE- and London Stock Exchange-listed Sirius Real Estate has potentially €350 million (about R6.7 billion) in firepower for acquisitions in the UK and Germany for 2025, but is holding back until at least next Friday before greenlighting anything to effectively Trump-proof itself.
Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality’s financial mismanagement under Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s leadership – including R87 million in unauthorised expenditure – initiated the Hawks’ now-finalised fraud and corruption investigation into a R2.5 million tender.
This consumer told his bank’s insurance arm in early November that he’d switched to another insurer and provided proof of the new policy, but the bank debited him in December and failed to refund him as promised. Wendy Knowler took up his case.
Veteran journalist and political editor, Paddy Harper, has died. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, his family said: “It’s with much sadness and heartbreak that the family of William Harper, known to the world as Paddy Harper, announces his passing away.”
The little more than a month after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the National Health Insurance Act into law in May last year, the ANC entered into a government of national unity following a large drop in their share of the vote in South Africa’s 2024 elections.
There are those who use wearable devices to fake their exercise habits in order to score activity-linked benefits with their medical schemes, but the schemes have taken steps to ensure that the cheaters don’t prosper, writes Wendy Knowler.
Parks Tau, the minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, said that the government’s new R100-billion transformation fund idea, which is not an official policy proposal at this stage, would not raise money by imposing new obligations on firms.