What to Watch: The Perfect Neighbour, Bad Influencer

On paper, CMS Water Engineering looked like a success story: a black-owned company winning multimillion-rand contracts to fix water and wastewater systems. In reality, insiders say it was rotten at the core. The company’s director, Rudolf Schoeman Jnr, allegedly diverted projects to his own white-owned firm while staff grew suspicious…

During her Nelson Mandela Lecture in Sandton, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese - known for her outspoken stance on Palestine - was confronted by a sheriff attempting to serve her with court papers from the US. The bizarre move, reportedly orchestrated by a rogue official in South Africa’s Department of…

Tensions between the DA and its coalition partner, the ANC, have flared up again, this time on the N1 highway. The DA unveiled a bold new billboard declaring, “BEE made ANC elites rich, and left SA poor. Choose real opportunities for all! Vote DA.” The move comes hot on the…

Illegal crossings, cross-border crime, and overwhelmed local services, those are just some of the challenges ActionSA MPs witnessed during their oversight visit to Mpumalanga’s Mananga and Lebombo Border Posts. Joined by Border Management Authority Commissioner Dr Michael Masiapato, the visit was part of ActionSA’s ongoing push to assess how South…

A world first for Africa, and a potential gamechanger in the fight against HIV. South Africa has become the first African country to register lenacapavir (LEN), a groundbreaking twice-a-year anti-HIV injection that offers almost full-proof protection against infection. Approved by Sahpra in record time, just 65 days the jab has…