Minnesota immigration enforcement surge is ending, Trump border tsar says
Two US citizens were killed in Minneapolis during the crackdown dubbed “Operation Metro Surge”.
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Altron shares surge 8.4% on back of upbeat trading statement
Altron head office. (Source: Altron) JSE-listed Altron’s stock was up 8.4% by lunchtime today, after it said headline earnings per share (HEPS) would gain by at least 30% for its full 2026 year. The company, which marked its 60th birthday last April, notes in a trading update to shareholders that these figures are based on…
Vodacom service revenue climbs 13% as Egypt and DRC surge
Vodacom Group reported a strong performance for the third quarter ended December 31, 2025, with service revenue rising nearly 13% to R34.6 billion. This growth was primarily fuelled by robust expansion in its international markets, specifically Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), helping the group track favourably against its medium-term financial targets. Read:…
Africa: Global Nationalist Surge – South Africa’s Looming Choice Between Populism and Democracy
South Africa must choose between democratic resilience and populist isolationism to navigate a rising global tide and define its standing in an increasingly fractured world. Conservatism is back. Not the quiet, establishment conservatism of the post-Cold War era, but a louder, more populist, and more nationalist strain that has swept across continents. From Washington to…
AdNotes boosts rural matric success: Pass rate surge through digital connectivity
AdNotes Pty Ltd and partners outside the newly established Olwandle High School Computer Lab. AdNotes, an award-winning internet service provider (ISP) in South Africa, is transforming education in rural and hard-to-reach areas by bridging the digital divide. With reliable internet connectivity and state-of-the-art computer labs, supported by key partners including the Council for Scientific and…
AI investment expected to surge in 2026
Christoph Schweizer, CEO of BCG. Companies globally plan to double their spending on artificial intelligence (AI) in 2026, allocating about 1.7% of revenue – more than twice the increase planned for 2025. Seventy-two percent of CEOs say they are the main AI decision-makers in their organisations. These are key findings from the Boston Consulting Group’s…
Samsung Electronics estimates nearly three-fold profit surge as memory prices skyrocket
Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images South Korea’s Samsung Electronics expects its profits to triple in the final three months of last year, reaching a record high, as memory prices surge amid booming demand tied to artificial intelligence. The world’s largest memory…
How Japan is fighting back against a surge of bear attacks
Experts say Japan’s bear population — which includes at least 12,000 brown bears in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands — has been growing even as the rural population is aging and shrinking, leaving the bears with more room to roam and fewer people to scare them off. A shortage of tree nuts and…
Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk shares surge after GLP-1 pill approval
Novo Nordisk shares received a much-needed end of the year boost as the Wegovy maker became the first drugmaker to secure approval of a GLP-1 pill for weight loss, in what one analyst called a “redemption for the investors” after the stock’s worst year ever. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Novo Nordisk’s…
Demand for high-speed internet fuels SA’s fixed broadband surge
Fixed broadband service revenue will increase at a CAGR of 4.4% during the 2025 to 2030 period. Fixed communication services revenue in South Africa is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1% during the 2025 to 2030 period. This is according to GlobalData’s South Africa Fixed Communications Forecast (Q3 2025)…