TODAY’S MASS SIMPLIFIED | Global Catholic mass calls faithful to renewal, compassion and open doors Pope Leo XI V celebrates mass with priestly ordinations in St. Peters Basilica. PHOTO/VATICAN. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] Catholics across the world gathered today for Sunday Mass with a powerful and unified message: return to faith, embrace repentance, and become…
Capitec CEO Graham Lee Capitec Bank has scrapped call charges between its own Capitec Connect Sim cards in a sharp competitive move by South Africa’s largest mobile virtual network operator. CEO Graham Lee announced the change at the group’s full-year results presentation in Stellenbosch on Wednesday, saying calls between any two Capitec Connect numbers are…
Capitec CEO Graham Lee’s announcement on Wednesday that phone calls between Capitec Connect users are now free of charge is a significant development in the history of telecommunications in South Africa – but not in the way you might be thinking. The South African mobile industry was built on voice. For most of its first…
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has called for urgent and unified action to transform Africa’s aviation sector, insisting that the region must become self-sustaining in aircraft maintenance to curb current capital flight from the continent. Speaking at the 2026 Ethiopian Aviation Forum in Addis Ababa, Keyamo commended Ethiopian Airlines and described…
THE African Union High Representative for Silencing the Guns, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called on African leaders, particularly Ghana, to adopt a holistic approach to addressing challenges in the education sector. He said reimagining education was critical to empowering the human mind with creativity, critical thinking and ethical depth, which are essential for sustainable…
President Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV in a lengthy social media post Sunday night, calling the pontiff “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” Leo has been critical of the war in Iran and has previously made statements at odds with other priorities of the Trump administration, such as the ongoing crackdown…
Samsung, in partnership with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), has launched a new campaign to attract Black-owned service centre SMEs to its Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP). The initiative forms part of the company’s enterprise development programme and builds on a previous campaign that targeted both ICT and service centre businesses. The…
Taipei, Taiwan – Opposition leader Cheng Li-wun and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Beijing, where both leaders stated their opposition to Taiwan independence and expressed a desire for a “peaceful” resolution to the long-running dispute over the island’s future. They posed for photos at the Great Hall of the People and exchanged public…
President Museveni has called for a shift from historical disputes to a strategic, development-focused approach in addressing challenges facing the Nile Basin, stressing that Africa’s future depends on electrification, industrialisation and regional integration. Museveni made the remarks while delivering a lecture to a delegation from the Egyptian Armed Forces Staff and Command College at the…
African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), has called for urgent and coordinated multi stakeholder action to transform Africa’s cotton sector from a raw commodity export base into a competitive textile and garment industry. President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank, Dr George Elombi, made the call while addressing delegates at the recently…
