2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (298+ words) What does family life in South Africa look like in 2026? People are having fewer children than they did nearly two decades ago, and the country’s total fertility rate has been on a steady downward slide. Stats SA data, reported by…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (459+ words) Tuesday, September 8, 2026 South Africa’s informal beauty industry is growing and, because of this, wigs and hair extensions are the most frequently stolen imported products in the country’s ports. This was revealed by author and informal economy expert GG Alcock, on…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (441+ words) Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Erik and Lyle Menendez will get another chance to argue for release in March 2027, after California’s parole board agreed to bring their next suitability hearings forward from August 2028. The tentative date follows separate parole denials in August 2025, when…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (454+ words) Tuesday, September 8, 2026 [Image: JMPD / Facebook] Corruption within Gauteng’s metro police services has reached a scale that even the province’s own leadership is struggling to quantify, including one case in which a single Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) official is said…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (141+ words) Monday, September 7, 2026 [Image: Screenshot / Facebook] The people behind the latest offering from America’s most unpredictable social media team are absolutely cooking lately. Reality has apparently become optional after an AI-generated video of Donald Trump as Green Lantern, glowing ring and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (382+ words) Wednesday, September 2, 2026 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York and current royal pariah, has been accused of committing sex crimes in the United States by a sitting member of the US House of Representatives in remarks made under the legal…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (526+ words) Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Yesterday’s Lake America row was about Google Maps falling in line for US users, but today, MapQuest is emerging as the hero leading the resistance against petty name changes. According to TechCrunch, MapQuest’s iPhone app has shot to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (438+ words) Monday, August 31, 2026 [Image: Robert David Linsdell / CC] Google Maps is now changing the name of a Great Lake depending on which side of the border is looking at it. For users in the United States, Lake Ontario is starting to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (429+ words) Monday, August 31, 2026 Three years after Elon Musk retired the Twitter name in favour of X, a startup called Operation Bluebird is betting that the old brand still has enough pull to build a social network around it. But X isn’t…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (746+ words) Monday, August 31, 2026 [Image: Hhanwa / CC] Why Investors Should Be Concerned About The Growing Backlash To AI Data Centres – You’ve probably seen the protests and spirited town halls full of concerned citizens opposing a new data center in their backyard. [businessinsider]…...