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| Feb 17, 2026 | South Africa Pays More for Data Than 27 Other African Countries, New Report Finds | StatRanker data puts the average price of 1GB of mobile data in South Africa at R20.50 in 2025.
Communications Minister Solly Malatsi told Parliament that data prices have fallen sharply over the past five years due to competition and gover... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | South Africa: Government Says Data Prices Dropped but Some Costs Barely Moved | Minister Solly Malatsi answered questions from uMkhonto Wesizwe MP Seeng Mokoena about why data prices have not changed much.
One gigabyte of prepaid data now costs R79 compared to R100 in 2020 but some prices barely changed at all.
Communi... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | South Africa: Phalaborwa Residents Use AI to Create Protest Songs After 28 Days Without Power | A 58-year-old activist called Kruger Hobo created 15 songs using ChatGPT and Suno, turning resident complaints into AI-generated protest music.
Phalaborwa Laerskool Noord sent 660 learners home on Thursday at 10am as no water and electricit... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | South Africa: Lesufi Warns Schools Without Ai Are Failing Children | Panyaza Lesufi says artificial intelligence must be taught in schools now and not years from now.
He says schools without internet and devices are failing learners before they even start.
For many learners in South Africa, school still mean... |
| Jul 27, 2025 | Africa: Google's Africa Ai Boost | Google is pumping $37 million into AI development in Africa, targeting key areas like food security and digital access in local languages.
A major chunk, $25 million, is going to the AI collaborative for food security, which will help Afric... |
| Jun 19, 2025 | South Africa: Starlink Offers Free Internet to Rural Schools If Ownership Rules Change | Starlink told the South African government it will connect over 5,000 schools if it can ignore the 30% local ownership requirement for a licence.
The company says it will pay for everything, from the satellite kits to maintenance, and wants... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | Cracks show in KZN coalition after NFP loses out on mayorship | NFP leader Ivan Barnes. Image: X/Sihle Mavuso
The National Freedom Party (NFP) has filed a formal complaint with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) after its president, Ivan Barnes, lost the Zululand district municipality mayorship.
WHAT IS TH... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | NFP leader Ivan Barnes sworn in as a councillor in Zululand municipality | NFP leader Ivan Barnes. Image: X/SAFM
National Freedom Party (NFP) president Ivan Barnes has been appointed a councillor in the Zululand District Municipality and is reportedly set to become its mayor.
NFP leader Ivan Barnes is reportedly g... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | Sundowns responds after alleged player was arrested for assault | Mamelodi Sundowns confirm none of their players was arrested. Image: Sundowns official X page
Mamelodi Sundowns have responded to claims that their player was arrested for assault earlier this week.
On Thursday, the Daily Sun said the perso... |
| Apr 11, 2024 | Students pelt Nzimande with stones in protest | Students attack Nzimande with stones. Image: GCIS
Students at Amajuba TVET College in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, expressed their frustration over not receiving their funds from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) by pelting Hig... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Monday, 18 March 2024 | Here is today’s latest news and headlines, Images: Supplied/NSRI
A lot can change overnight, but we’ll keep you informed with the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Monday, 18 March 2024.
NSRI Richards Bay deputy station c... |
| Mar 17, 2024 | WATCH: ANC’s Siboniso Duma reprimands AmaZulu traditional Prime Minister | ANC KZN Chairperson Siboniso Duma snatches mic from Traditional Prime Minister Thulasizwe Buthelezi. Image: Screenshot/@tshwewuMoleme
Tensions flared in northern KwaZulu-Natal between AmaZulu Traditional Prime Minister Thulasizwe Buthelezi ... |
| Mar 17, 2024 | Zulu regiments beat up ANC supporters | Injured ANC supporters at KwaCeza Hospital after being beaten by AmaButho Image: @tman_shandu/@edtea
Blood was shed at the 110th commemoration of King Dinuzulu KaCetshwayo as Zulu regiments clashed with ANC supporters in KwaCeza.
“About nin... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | ANC eThekwini unable to pay salaries | ANC eThekwini Region allegedly in financial strain and unable to pay salaries
Cash strapped African National Congress (ANC) in the eThekwini region has allegedly failed to pay its staff members their full salaries for the last four months.
... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | UPDATE: Another learner dies in Addo scholar transport accident | Scholar transport overturned next to cargo train.Image: Ndingu Pastor-Bae Tsobo/Facebook
Another learner has succumbed to their injuries, increasing the death toll in the scholar transport accident in Addo risen to three.
The driver who was... |
| Jan 25, 2024 | Gauteng Education MEC condemns political campaigning in schools | Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane condemns political visits in schools. Photo: Gauteng Department of Education/ Facebook
Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane has vehemently condemned political parties from entering public schools durin... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Suspect arrested for setting Marshalltown building alight | Johannesburg’s Marshalltown fire killed over 70 people. Image: @Koena_xM / X.
Nearly five months after a deadly blaze gutted the Usindiso Building in Marshalltown. One suspect has been arrested after he confessed under oath at the Usindiso ... |
| Jan 21, 2024 | Gloves off! Bheki Cele ready to spill Jacob Zuma’s secrets | Photo: Dudu-Zuma-Sambudla / Twitter
Police Minister Bheki Cele has joined a cohort of other senior African National Congress(ANC) leaders publicly criticising former president Jacob Zuma’s and has threatened to expose Zuma’s secret’s.
Cele ... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | AmaZulu King Misuzulu fires legal team after court loss | King Misuzulu. Image:Twitter@Kumkanimna
AmaZulu’s King Misuzulu has parted ways with his legal team after losing a court case in the North Gauteng High Court.
REINSTATEMENT OF LAWYERS
ALSO READ: ‘My undisputed king’: Julius Malema backs Mis... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | South Africa: Did Robots Write Ramaphosa's Speech? | Officials are digging into claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa's recent speech was partly AI-generated, thanks to ChatGPT's helping hand.
The speech, focusing on decolonising education, was delivered enthusiastically at a conference in Jo... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Sizok’thola former presenter Xolani Khumalo hands himself to the cops again | Former Sizok’thola Xolani Khumalo hands himself to the police again. Photo:
Xolani Khumalo, the former Sizok’thola presenter on Moja Love, has again handed himself to the police today, Thursday, 30 November.
ADDITIONAL CHARGES FACED BY KHUM... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Why is Gqeberha still ‘in a drought’ despite overflowing dams? | Metro authorities say the current water supply will only replenish what was used over the past eight years. Image: St Francis Chronicle
While the rest of the dams supplying Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) are overflowing after recent... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Timeline: Boksburg’s tragic run of fate | At least two major incidents in Boksburg this year are thought to be mining related. Image: Pixabay
Three of the 17 victims from Wednesday’s gas leak were children. They succumbed to a leak of toxic gas that was apparently used for scavengi... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | WATCH: 15000 unwanted firearms destroyed in Gauteng [VIDEO] | Police said they’ve permanently removed 54 517 firearms from circulation since April 2022. Image: Twitter/SAPoliceService
NEWS IN A MINUTE: Listen or watch the full versions of the ”Police destroys over 15 000 unwanted firearms” article in ... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | WATCH: Police destroys over 15 000 unwanted firearms | Police destroy more firearms in Gauteng. Photo: Twiitter/OFM
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has destroyed a total of 15 700 firearms today, Thursday, 6 July in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng.
ALSO READ: Limpopo Police launch manhunt after... |
| May 7, 2023 | Sbusiso Mahlangu faked his death to claim policy | Image by pexels
Sbusiso Mahlangu and his co-accused wife, Lerato Mahlangu appeared in Soshanguve Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for murder.
Lerato Mahlangu allegedly pocketed millions of rands out of Sithebe’s death.
ALSO READ: Two question... |
| May 5, 2023 | WATCH: Bangladeshi shopkeepers trapped inside burning shop | Immigrant shopkeepers saved from burning supermarket. Photo: Siso Naile
Bangladeshi shopkeepers had their lives flash before their eyes when their supermarket caught alight in Albertskroon (Northcliff) Randburg in the wee hours of this morn... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | GRAPHIC CONTENT: Dog discovers decomposing mutilated body | A dog in KwaThema returned home with a decomposing body part. Photo: EK FM/ Facebook
Warning: The content contained within this article features imagery which readers may find disturbing.
The community of KwaThema is still reeling in shock ... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | South Africa: World's Largest Internet Cable Arrives in Mzansi | 2Africa, the world's largest fibre optic cable, has arrived in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban.
The 45,000 km cable, which is still in construction, will run along the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and Re... |
| Jan 28, 2023 | WATCH: Angry learners at Alex High throw PAP and rice all over school premises | WATCH: Angry learners at Alex High throw PAP and rice all over school premises Photo: Screenshots/Video
Chaos erupted at Alexandra High School on Thursday when angry learners stormed the school kitchen, took the pots full of pap and rice, a... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | South Africa: Curious Monkeys Get in Touch With the Touchscreen | A group of vervet monkeys in KwaZulu-Natal have become the first primates in the world to learn how to use a touchscreen.
The breakthrough will now allow scientists to test the intelligence of non-human primates without having to keep them ... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Ethiopia: Meta Sued Billions for Fuelling the Flames of Ethiopia's War | The social media giant and owner of Facebook, Meta, is being sued for R35 billion ($2 billion) for amplifying Ethiopia's civil war.
Meta has been accused of letting hateful and violent content thrive on the platform, fuelling attacks during... |
| Jul 17, 2022 | BREAKING: Another mass SHOOTING in Lenasia, Khayelitsha and Bloemfontein [WATCH] | Police say there is a brick wall between them and community members. PHOTO: Scrolla.Africa
Five people have reportedly been killed in yet another shooting, this time in the south of Lenasia, Johannesburg.
ALSO READ: Watch: ‘Wild West’ anarc... |
