Author: staff
Johannesburg Water – the company responsible for supplying South Africa’s economic heartland with potable water – is in a tailspin, financially unsustainable and is increasingly delivering substandard services, all thanks to political interference.
Money laundering is the organised crime enabling all other organised crime, though it sometimes occupies a legal grey zone. AmaBhungane has embarked on a major series to pierce the secrecy and obfuscation that are central to the enterprise.
The Polo Vivo is the most popular passenger car in South Africa. The new model sparked Volkswagen SA’s Nozipho Ndaba to create her own dress from the hatchback’s car seat material. News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post sits down with her to find out more.
Thirty pupils, including one in Grade 12, are forced to wade through a hippo-infested lake in far northern KwaZulu-Natal to get to school because a boat the provincial education department provided them with in 2016 has not been working for months.
Before this downturn, electric vehicle sales had been rising steadily, supported by increased choices and government incentives. In early 2024, year-to-date sales continued to grow compared to the same period in 2023. Then, in April, sales fell for the first time in more than two years.
Amid new upheaval at the embattled national oil and gas company, its new acting CEO told parliament that PetroSA’s deal with Gazprom to revive its Mossel Bay gas-to-liquid refinery must go ahead, labelling the refinery as “too big to fail.”
The first test of the new state-owned holding company’s board will be how they explain to politicians that not all that glitters on their political dashboard is worth the attention and resources they wish to lavish on it, says Khaya Sithole.
While Richemont’s companies are increasingly battling to sell online, Pedro Lopez-Belmonte Eraso, a senior technology innovation manager at the Swiss luxury group said that new technologies such as 3D modelling, virtual try-ons, and digital passports are helping to digitise the luxury brand experience.
A permanent security detail, friends no longer coming over for braais, and strategic seating at restaurants are some of the life changes KwaZulu-Natal Public Works MEC Martin Meyer has had to make after speaking out against extortionists and construction mafias.
It promises to be a successful Saturday for the South African franchises in the United Rugby Championship (URC), as the Sharks and Stormers aim to return to winning ways on home soil, while the Lions look to continue their unbeaten run at Zebre.