IN PICTURES: World Dog Surfing Championships, and more from around the world PHALA PHALA SAGA: Impeachment committee agrees that Ramaphosa should testify African doctors have a moral duty to speak up for patients who can’t LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026 OP-ED: More coalitions are coming, with power and kingmaking the name of the game WHY ARE WE WAITING?: DBE’s guidelines to protect LGBTQI+ pupils still not done after 7 years DIPLOMATIC BUNGLE: New protocol for former presidents: Dirco aims to avoid Zuma-Gupta repeat EXPLAINER: Unpacked: Each party’s arguments in the Expropriation Act case ANALYSIS: SA electricity shake-up might plug billing gaps, but sparks will fly OIL MARKET JOLTS: Explainer: Why jet fuel and diesel are so vulnerable to price shocks LOST SPECIES: The $100m-buck gamble: Should an extinct SA antelope roam the Cape again? Kruger elephant deaths: The question SANParks still hasn’t answered How to solve the problem of registered voters not casting their ballots 20 Questions: 20 questions Annemieke Thomaidis Financial oversight: McKenzie doubles down on World Cup spend as Parliament demands details Forced Labour?: SA unlikely to reverse Trump’s new 12.5% tariff AIM GAME: Sharpshooters may separate Boks and All Blacks in another tight series The GMO myth — cheaper food, deeper hunger, greater corporate power Taiwan launches major war games to test command flexibility South Korea to revive stalled rail project that could connect to North Korea German police examine suspicious object at Leipzig airport Afghan boxer accused of killing British woman in Athens to appear in court WHAT’S COOKING: The Tatin sisters’ famous tarte, baked in a copper pot BOOK EXCERPT: Worth the Fight: The story behind how Jonathan Jansen revived a failing school Russian attacks kill one in Ukrainian capital Kyiv, trigger fires Drought-hit Britain heads for worst cereal harvest in four decades AMABHUNGANE: R31m mobile vet clinics deal leaves government with nothing IN THE DOCK: Ex-minister Mapisa-Nqakula paid in cash for R1.8m home renovation, court told Telecoms crisis: Joburg admits R4.8m Telkom debt as City websites crash MAJOR MUSCLE: Powerful Bok team for Argentina sends strong message to waiting All Blacks ‘TOXIC DISCHARGE’ SAGA: NPA hits Sasol with fresh warrants, seven years after chemical contamination complaint MADLANGA COMMISSION: Crime Intelligence corruption case ‘made no sense’ — senior Idac prosecutor Facebook obliterated 20 years of my online life for no apparent reason BIG STINK: Nelson Mandela Bay sewage failure a ‘human rights crisis’ EXPOSED: Different name, same network — the truth about Independent Media’s ‘new’ newspaper publisher Why deepening intra-BRICS agricultural trade is essential for SA Triple storm hits markets as Fed, AI bubble and FX interventions collide Baked-in failure: Your bread is expensive because the state does not work Watch – The DA MP, Tony Leon’s lobbying firm and the SIM card law Fresh blow to vulnerable neurodiverse kids in battle with Joburg, Gauteng over unpaid bills How to ensure SA’s just transition is truly just African politics and the widening distance between power and consequence A sober appraisal — why raising alcohol taxes protects SA’s health and wealth Watch — ‘Spies in America’: From South African freedom fighter to foreign agent SA needs sovereign tech infrastructure, not just foreign server farms on its soil High noon for SA’s criminal justice system Women need more than just a journey home in SA’s migrant exodus Things fall apart — decay and scandal push SA’s democracy to the brink City of Chaos and the fight for Jozi’s mayoral chain Why a party can lose a city’s water and keep its ward Watch — Inside the capture of Cape Town’s Planning Tribunal
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