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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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: 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: 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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Image: Clive Stafford Smith arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 21 January 2025. Credit: Ebrahim Essay /Salaamedia Thu 22 January 2026: For more than two decades, the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui has remained one of the most contested human rights cases associated with the global war on terror. A Pakistani neuroscientist educated in the United […]
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Wed 21 January 2026: Britain‘s government is considering intervening in the sale of the Telegraph newspaper to the owner of the Daily Mail over competition concerns, the UK’s culture minister said Tuesday. The Daily Mail and General Trust struck a £500-million ($673-million) deal with US-Emirati consortium RedBird IMI in November for the purchase of the 170-year-old paper. The tie-up […]
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Wed 21 January 2026: US streaming service Netflix has passed 325 million subscribers worldwide, reporting on Tuesday its first update on customer numbers in a year. The company ended 2024 with 301.6 million paying customers. In the past quarter, Netflix lifted revenue by 17.6% year-on-year to just over $12 billion. Net profit reached $2.42 billion, up nearly 29% […]
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