5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (557+ words) It is easy to start a war. But ending one is far more difficult. Still, it is worth the effort. Early this month, US President Donald Trump sent two peace envoys to Moscow and Kyiv, apparently to try to end…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (497+ words) In 2026, a wave of Afrophobia swept through South Africa’s higher education sector, reflecting trends in wider society. The scourge of xenophobic attacks has been a perennial feature of post-apartheid South Africa. Between 1994 and 2025, Wits University’s African Centre for Migration and…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (103+ words) Business Day CARTOON | Pandering to Putin: Brics silent on Ukraine Today’s cartoon by Brandan Reynolds Would you like to comment on this article? Please read our Comment Policy before commenting. JON FOSTER-PEDLEY | Fuel is not a flight plan for universities…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (495+ words) Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it does not restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to a loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said....

14+ hour, 23+ min ago   (586+ words) The events at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) over the past week should force South Africa to confront a difficult question: what happens when legitimate grievances become destructive, and who ultimately pays the price? The burning of CPUT’s…...

19+ hour, 9+ min ago   (698+ words) Cairo — Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen overnight claimed new attacks on neighbouring Saudi Arabia, as Yemen’s Saudi-backed government described the rebels’ swift advance along the Red Sea coast as a “painful” development in a new front in the Iran war. The…...

19+ hour, 19+ min ago   (533+ words) Ugandan King Oyo Nyimba, long the world’s youngest monarch, was buried on Saturday among the tombs of his royal forebears as his Tooro kingdom looked to put a bitter succession battle behind it. Oyo’s appointed successor, the news anchor Edward…...

20+ hour, 24+ min ago   (898+ words) By Sheikh Saaliq and Aijaz Hussain New Delhi — The Brics group of emerging economies at the weekend expressed concern over rising tensions in the Middle East and condemned the use of sanctions not authorised by the UN, as the leaders…...

20+ hour, 52+ min ago   (500+ words) OpenAI will not go public in 2026, CEO Sam Altman said in remarks published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence that render “unacceptable” even a 10% risk that AI could cause human extinction by decade’s end. The comments come as…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (888+ words) Iran-aligned Houthi militants seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha on Thursday, military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies hours after US President Donald Trump said he expected the war to end after US mid-term…...