Home affairs deputy minister Njabulo Nzuza The home affairs department has undertaken to ensure that all its services are fully automated and digitised over the next year. According to its 2024/2025 annual report released on Monday, it is making progress in its digitisation project, with 40 million of more than 340 million civic services records…
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada French media giant Groupe Canal+ has all but completed its takeover of MultiChoice, securing 94.39% of the South African pay-TV group’s issued shares following the close of its mandatory offer to shareholders. The result, announced to investors on Monday, clears the final hurdle for Canal+ to take full ownership of MultiChoice,…
President Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of US troops to “war ravaged” Portland, Oregon, authorising use of “full force” if needed. Trump said he was “directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland”. He claimed that the move would help protect “any of our ICE Facilities…
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK – During the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, Spotlight Initiative co-hosted a high-level side event to mobilize new commitments towards gender-based violence prevention and response. ‘Full Speed Ahead: A Global Partnership to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls’ was co-hosted with the European Union (EU) and African Union (AU),…
Agnes Mlambo Eskom has purchased 20 electric vehicles, ranging from light delivery vehicles to light trucks, as it pursues a long-term plan to electrify its entire fleet. It said on Wednesday that the 20 vehicles will be deployed mainly in its distribution and generation divisions. The utility plans to buy another 100 EVs in the…
Football fans across the country are getting ready for the first NFL Sunday of the 2025 season. The Pittsburgh Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers is set for a revenge game against the New York Jets in what could be his final season. Then, it’ll be a marquee matchup between the best quarterbacks in the league, the Baltimore…
Watch Ed O’Keefe’s full interview with World Food Programme executive director Cindy McCain, a portion of which aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Aug. 31. 2025.
After a week of high-stakes diplomacy aimed at halting the war in Ukraine, United States President Donald Trump says he is set on arranging a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Following separate meetings with both leaders, Trump has ruled out sending US troops to Ukraine, but pledged security guarantees…
Three African countries: Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa have earned spots among the world’s top-ranked countries in the 2024 Best Countries Rankings, published by U.S. News & World Report in collaboration with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and global marketing firm WPP. According to the report, Egypt leads the continent at 35th…
