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BHEKISISA: SA’s regulators are struggling to keep up with black market weight-loss jabs

FROZEN POSTS: Qualified doctors desperate for jobs as KZN’s public hospitals go understaffed

I have a picture for you! 17 October-23 October

CRÉATION AFRICA: GuguByGugu uses mohair to fuse luxury streetwear with a rich African heritage

ECO DECEPTION: How to spot greenwashing and mislabelled seafood in SA

CAMPUS SAFETY: Universities have policies to protect GBV victims, experts say, but not the will

CONSTITUTION @ 30: Art, justice and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Celebrating 30 years of the Constitutional Court

Claude Monet’s ‘Iris’ becomes most expensive artwork sold at auction in France, Sotheby’s says

Taiwan shuts down ahead of Typhoon Champi, nearly 1,000 flights cancelled

Austria expels four Vienna-based Russian diplomats on security grounds

All 14 Indians in yacht incident off Yemen coast reported safe, embassy says

INSTANT CLASSIC: Veteran author delivers a baking bible for our time

BOOK EXTRACT: Rethinking Activism in Africa — activists as antibodies against a rotten social order

TITLE BECKONS: Maiden Formula One title in sight for phenom Kimi Antonelli

SA’s R13bn social grant cuts are arbitrary, cruel and economically short-sighted

Brazil may turn right-wing again — this is why South Africans should care

Tunisian police clash with protesters in capital on day of heightened tensions

Hacking attempts surge as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws

BOOK EXCERPT: Paradise found — A full-throttle view of Africa’s island treasures

CLEANING HOUSE: World body orders Athletics SA overhaul after president ousted for financial misconduct

POLAR POLITICS: China’s Antarctic marine protected area has a Soviet name, with more Russian fingerprints emerging

Microsoft develops AI tool that can diagnose ‘sequentially’ like a doctor

Nepal to get $20m from climate fund after deadly August flood

The mini budget keeps SA diplomacy afloat, but structural rot still festers

Xenophobia’s high price — why ConCourt’s defence of refugees matters for us all

REPEAT CONVICT: SA double murderer ‘with racist alter ego’ may lose US citizenship over lies

INTERVIEW: Godongwana says coveted investment-grade status is now ‘within reach’

TEST BRILLIANCE: Titanic Temba Bavuma inspires a Proteas win for the ages against Australia

SUPPLY CRISIS: Foul water scares hit Joburg suburbs — councillors blame ‘cowboy’ contractors

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: A red beret in the Deep South — meet the EFF’s unlikely ward candidate

INSPIRATIONAL STORY: From a Gqeberha bus stop to Spike Lee’s desk, a friendship becomes acclaimed film

Watch - Ramaphosa’s reform message as polls show continued ANC decline

THE FINANCIAL WELLNESS COACH: Weighing up rental income against long-term investment growth

AFTER THE BELL: Mini budget applause is meaningless to young jobseekers hustling on street corners

GROUNDUP: High court sets aside multibillion-rand ARV contracts over procurement irregularities

GROUNDUP: Mob beats immigrant man to death in central Durban

A 100-day plan to keep Joburg’s lights on

SA’s R13bn social grant cuts are arbitrary, cruel and economically short-sighted

SOUND POLLUTION: Stadium noise and nuisance put Nelson Mandela Bay residents’ rights on the line

DISEASE DISASTER: Angry neighbours, game sales in jeopardy as Addo’s foot-and-mouth disease crisis deepens

IN THE DOCK: Suliman Carrim’s legal woes deepen as Absa vehicle smuggling allegations emerge

PRESS FREEDOM: Media wins as court reopens trial of Zuma-linked spy in R12m fraud case

Business Reflection: Loaded for Bear: MTBPS shines light on lost revenue from missed mining opportunities

ARSON ATTACK: Tibet’s exile government asks Pretoria for protection, SA says leave it to SAPS

POLL PERIL: ANC campaigner suffers electric shock and broken leg during poster drive

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: This new Soweto party uses Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s face to win votes

GROUNDUP : Life as an asylum seeker in SA’s broken immigration system

FRENCH LETTER: The violence of 17 October has a long backstory (but who cares about history?)

Beatings, cyberattacks and threats darken Vucic’s Serbia ahead of elections

Taiwan probes organised crime links to China’s ‘transnational repression’

Two killed, 8 injured in attack on airport in Saudi oil city Dammam

Russia frees retired US schoolteacher in goodwill gesture as Putin meets Witkoff

WHAT’S COOKING: Throwback Thursday: Ash-baked potatoes

QUIZ: The local elections are coming. How much do you know?

THE INTERVIEW: Stephen Symons’ Starlorn finds fragile humanity amid the fractures of war

Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble

North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong warns South Korea, says border loudspeakers to be ready

New World screwworm cases confirmed in wildlife in Texas, beef cow in New Mexico

Meta strikes deal to keep Zuckerberg in California after wealth tax concerns

AMABHUNGANE ANALYSIS: Gloves come off between PetroSA and ex-partner, Nako Energy

Watching the watchers — the Mother City’s expanding surveillance network demands voyeurism scrutiny

MTBPS 2026: Opposition calls Godongwana’s fuel levy cuts ‘a scam’ as GNU offers muted support

GASTROINTESTINAL CRISIS: Rhodes students hit by gastro, thrusting Makhanda water system into spotlight (again)

TRC Roulette : Former justice minister Brigitte Mabandla denies instruction to halt post-TRC prosecutions

MAGICAL MARCO: Jansen takes five wickets to leave Australia on the brink of heavy defeat

IN PICTURES: A greyhound race in Sydney, French riots, and more from around the world

DEFENSIVE DEPTH: Bafana boast centre-back riches as Mosimane weighs options for Kenya double-header

Trump Inc, American kleptocracy and the art of US State Capture

PERSONAL REFLECTION: ‘We are here, Janine’ — my account of fatal Orient Beach shark attack

Watch – Ferial Haffajee and Ernst Roets on Agoa, crosses and autonomy

AMABHUNGANE: Openness or secrecy: media and evidence leaders square off at Madlanga Commission

ANALYSIS: Bronkhorstspruit water crisis exposes a national pattern of municipal failure and impunity

PROMISED LAND: Title deeds may be key to unlocking SA agriculture’s full potential

GROUNDUP: Tshwane’s drinking water crisis a wake-up call for SA as sewage pollution sickens hundreds

MTBPS 2026: Rising revenue allows for fuel levy relief, El Niño readiness in Godongwana’s mini budget

MTBPS 2026: GBV and early childhood development get prioritised in mini budget of maximum efficiency

MTBPS 2026: Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement — Full Speech

CRÉATION AFRICA: This fashion-focused consulting firm wants to build the ‘LVMH of Africa’

INTERVIEW: New EU envoy red-flags rigid BEE, SA’s Ukraine ‘double standard’, but hails ‘deeper’ ties

PRESS FREEDOM: SSA seeks to shut media, public out of R12m spy trial, citing intelligence risk

20 Questions: 20 Questions with Laura Brink

FORWARD DOMINANCE: Bok Women face stern Ireland challenge in first clash in two decades

Iraq closes Sheeb border crossing with Iran to check security, sources say

North Korea tells border troops to take ‘resolute action’ if South threatens their safety

Australian lawmaker loses both legs in vehicle attack as suspect appears in court

Malaysia bans civil servants from using mapping app Waze, citing links to Israel

When killers earn sympathy, society’s moral compass has truly collapsed

TIME TO REFOCUS: SA’s URC teams face northern examination as club season ramps up

WHAT’S COOKING: Bockwurst with a warm potato and bacon salad and braised red cabbage

INQUEST: Anele Tembe could ‘climb over balcony’ despite cocaine and alcohol toxicology evidence, inquiry hears

BATTING MASTERCLASS: Brilliant Bavuma pulls Proteas back into series against Aussies with career-best Test score

BOOK EXCERPT: How dolerite turned the Karoo into an ancient canvas and a barrier to fracking

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026: Defiant Andile Lungisa claims Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral crown despite ANC appeal plans

Musk ordered slowdown of Starlink service used by Ukraine’s military, WSJ reports

Hitting home — how a motorist panic button is a lifeline for GBV victims

SA’s immigration conundrum is not at the border; it is at the Union Buildings

BEYOND THE GREEN BOOK: Inside South Africa’s revolutionary leap into the digital identity system

OBITUARY: Lovell Friedman — Cape mosaic artist who built public memory from broken pieces

No excuses — Mantashe must apologise for crude, politically sexist remarks on sexual exploitation

Trump says Ukraine has to want to settle war