Fri 23 January 2026: The recent floods in South Africa have caused extensive damage to the country’s largest and world-renowned game reserve, Kruger National Park, with losses estimated at nearly half a billion rand (about 30 million U.S. dollars). South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment Willie Aucamp made the remarks at a […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: The apex court confirms that customary marriages remain valid and continuous even if followed by a civil union. The Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled on Wednesday that antenuptial contracts signed after a customary marriage are invalid. This landmark judgment clarifies that a customary marriage does not end when a couple […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed a plea on Thursday that sought to stop Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, Makaziwe, and a former prison warden, from auctioning some of the late icon’s artifacts. The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Robben Island […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: Caledonia is also arranging a $150 million funding facility with a consortium of Zimbabwean and South African banks. US mining company Caledonia Corporation said it raised $150 million via a seven-year convertible bond offering to fund its Bilboes project, which, once operational, will be Zimbabwe’s largest gold mine. Zimbabwe-focused Caledonia’s debt […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: French, Swiss food giants Danone and Nestle have also recalled infant formula batches in recent weeks over toxin fears. French dairy product giant Lactalis has announced a recall of batches of infant formula in France and more than a dozen other countries over worries batches have been contaminated by a toxin. […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: One in five mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is now threatened with extinction, according to a new regional “Red List,” highlighting rising pressures from habitat loss and degradation. The latest Mammal Red List, released on Wednesday by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) in partnership with the South African National […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: According to the UN, more than 1,800 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians – about five per day – were documented in 2025. Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has approved the issuance of gun licences to Israelis in 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as the right-wing government […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: Experts warned Wednesday that AI-related harms to women are likely to worsen as concerns about artificial intelligence being used to harm them have intensified, following issues with Grok’s image-generation tool. Nations across the world accelerated scrutiny of xAI’s Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot, amid concerns that the tool can be used […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: Thursday marks one year since US President Donald Trump ordered the country’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) just hours after taking office. According to an agreement between the US and the Geneva-based UN agency, the withdrawal is due to be effective as of Thursday after the US saw out a mandatory one-year notice […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: A recent study published in Nature on Wednesday reports that scientists have identified what is considered the world’s oldest known cave art: a hand stencil found in Liang Metanduno cave on Muna Island, located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. This artwork has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago. The artwork […]
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