Like someone juggling three barista jobs between auditions for nonspeaking parts, Paramount studios is contemplating giving up on Los Angeles in the US. The Hollywood studio has reportedly intensified threats to leave the city after talks to settle California’s antitrust case contesting its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. fell apart last month. Deadline…
Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦@ConCaracal Farm murders are the only violent crime encouraged and romanticised by politicians through chants like “Kill the Boer, Kill the farmer” – a chant the president refuses to condemn as hateful, wrong, and unacceptable, and even defends. Farm murders are the only violent crime the existence of is flat-out denied by the…
SANDTON — In his first major national address since assuming the leadership of the Democratic Alliance (DA), Geordin Hill-Lewis declared an end to thirty years of uninterrupted political orthodoxy, asserting that South Africa has firmly entered its ‘second transition.’ Speaking from Sandton on Thursday morning, Hill-Lewis unveiled a comprehensive blueprint aimed at completely restructuring the…
DA strategist Ryan Coetzee has launched an attack on the United States’ top leaders, which has, in turn, sparked a backlash from respected political commentators. The issue started after Coetzee criticised a speech by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio from Pnyx Hill near the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. In his speech, Rubio praised Western…
In terms of affordability and cost-of-living standards, a Deutsche Bank report found significant price changes over the last decade, with globalisation failing to achieve price equalisation. This is due to various factors, including taxes, regulations, currency fluctuations, and inflation. Deutsche Bank Research Institute senior financial researchers and macroeconomists Adrian Cox and Jim Reid said that…
The political and administrative leadership of the Knysna Local Municipality has collapsed following the arrests of former mayor Thando Matika, acting municipal manager Boy Ngubo, and acting chief financial officer Busisiwe Lubelwana on corruption charges. The South African Police Service (SAPS) Political Killings Task Team executed the arrests on Thursday, October 1, 2026, following allegations…
The United Nations has once again exposed its deeply flawed institutional architecture, electing 15 new members to its 47-nation Human Rights Council through an uncontested process that critics have blasted as a charade. Because regional blocs coordinated behind closed doors to put forward exactly the same number of candidates as available seats, the global body…
A record-breaking rugby crowd in Baltimore has thrown a spotlight on both the Springboks’ global commercial potential and the deep costs of South Africa’s ongoing skills and capital flight.
The case, which was heard in May this year, deals with the Public Procurement Act, the process of putting the Act in place and the racial requirements imposed on applicants who want to do business with the state. These requirements are not only stricter than in the past, but can also, according to the rejected…
Today is the ancient feast of St Michael and All Angels, traditionally known in England as Michaelmas. The feast itself was celebrated across Western Christendom, but Michaelmas became deeply woven into English life. It marked the turning of the seasons, the end of harvest, and became one of England’s four traditional quarter days, when rents…
