

Namibia scraps university fees
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 28, 2025
Namibia has said that from next year universities will not charge application or tuition fees. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was elected last year, made the

US beekeeper arrested over role in Rwandan genocide
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 27, 2025
A beekeeper living in the US has been arrested for his part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Faustin Nsabumukunzi, 65, has been accused of committing “heinous

Warhol print accidentally thrown away in Dutch town
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 27, 2025
A print by Andy Warhol of a former Dutch Queen, Beatrix, was accidentally disposed of in a municipality. The municipality of Maashorst said that the

California now world’s fourth-biggest economy
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 27, 2025
California has overtaken Japan as the world’s fourth-biggest economy. The only economies that are bigger than California’s are those of the United States as a

GNU popular, but people frustrated and sceptical: poll
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 26, 2025
Most South Africans are favourably disposed towards the Government of National Unity (GNU), though many feel that it is not delivering for them, and do

A dagger or a penis? Controversy rages over Bayeux tapestry
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 26, 2025
A medieval historian believes he has discovered a previously unacknowledged depiction of a penis on the renowned Bayeux tapestry. The tapestry is a 70-metre-long embroidered

R521 billion – the cost to taxpayers of bailing out SoEs
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 26, 2025
South African taxpayers have spent about R521 billion over the last 15 years to keep State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) alive. The state has received just R1

Jordan bans Muslim Brotherhood
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 25, 2025
Jordan has banned the Islamic organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying that organisation was planning terror attacks. It said that all the Muslim Brotherhood’s offices would

Truce reached in DRC conflict
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 25, 2025
The Congolese government and rebels operating in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed to a Qatar-brokered truce. The DRC and

Cutting BEE premiums best way to fill fiscal gap – IRR
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 25, 2025
Cutting BEE premiums and delivering value-for-money governance must be the next step for the National Treasury if it “is serious about fiscal responsibility”, according to