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Alfred Dunhill Championship Betting Tips: A Popular Pick Could Claim His Maiden Title On Home Soil

The penultimate DP World Tour event of 2025 comes in the form of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Royal Johannesburg... but who are our experts backing?

Golf Monthly

South Africa declared gender-based violence a national disaster. But how will frontline workers be kept safe?

Social workers are often the first to arrive at scenes of gender-based violence and femicide. They often enter unsafe homes without backup or protective equipment. As one told me:

The Conversation

Kristoffer Reitan’s Nedbank Golf Challenge Winning WITB: What’s In The Bag Of The 2026 PGA Tour Player?

Reitan's incredible 2025 continued in South Africa, as he secured the Nedbank Golf Challenge using a full Ping set-up

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False claims Afrikaners are persecuted threaten South Africa’s sovereignty, says president

Cyril Ramaphosa says theories, promoted by Donald Trump, ‘conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy’

The Guardian - UK

South Africa and Pakistan: countries brought to their knees by elite capture and economic paralysis

In the ongoing quest to understand South Africa’s political and economic stagnation, it may be helpful to look at other postcolonial states that have travelled further along the path of independence. This may help clarify the stagnation question that citizens, politicians and economists are grappling with.

The Conversation

South Africa’s water, energy and food crisis: why fixing one means fixing them all

South Africa faces serious water, energy and food problems. Drought, overuse and ageing infrastructure strain water supplies. Coal-fired electricity is not sustainable in the long term and causes high greenhouse gas emissions. Tens of millions of people can’t afford enough food because of rising prices. These crises are interconnected: water…

The Conversation

South Africa’s G20 presidency is over – what did it achieve for climate and clean energy in Africa?

South Africa opened its G20 presidency with an ambitious message for a world divided by conflict and economic strain: solidarity, equality and sustainability. The Johannesburg G20 leaders’ summit tried to mend deep geopolitical rifts. Even those who chose to boycott the summit remained included – with their chairs left symbolically…

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Africa Cup of Nations shunted into margins as greedy game finds no room at top table

So long as the Premier League invests in its players and Fifa pays it lip service, the continent’s flagship tournament will always struggle to fit in

The Guardian - UK

World Cup 2026 fixtures, results, full schedule and group standings

Thrilling draw between Iran and New Zealand

Evening Standard

Mass shooting in unlicensed bar leaves 12 dead including three children

The motive for the killings was not clear, according to authorities

The Independent UK

Manhunt after mass shooting at hostel in South Africa

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The Independent UK

Three children among 11 killed in shooting at South African bar

The shooting occurred at an unlicensed bar in a township west of Pretoria

The Independent UK

El Tri Secures First Major Victory: Takeaways From Mexico’s World Cup Group Draw

Mexico will face South Africa, South Korea and a currently undetermined European opponent in the 2026 World Cup group stage.

Sports Illustrated

Gunmen kill at least 12 people including three-year-old in hostel in South Africa

Police launch ‘manhunt’ after 25 people are shot in early morning in township attack west of Pretoria

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The Independent UK

Ireland boss Heimir Hallgrimsson reacts to ‘strange’ World Cup draw: ‘Football was second’

Ireland would face a group comprising hosts Mexico, South Africa and South Korea if they progress to the World Cup

Sports Illustrated

Who Is Mexico Playing at the 2026 World Cup?

The 2026 FIFA World Cup group stage draw was kind for El Tri.

Sports Illustrated

2026 World Cup Draw in Full: USMNT Handed Winnable Group

Mexico open the tournament against South African while Brazil have landed themselves a tough group.

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'Proud of my progression' –Mountain bike world champion Alan Hatherly prepared for sophomore season of WorldTour road racing

South African racer continues to balance road at Jayco-AlUla with MTB in 2026 keeping an eye on race wins and building for the 2028 Olympic Games

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The Independent UK

Springboks boss Rassie Erasmus signs long-term contract extension

South Africa have won the last two World Cups under Erasmus’s leadership

Euronews

African penguins starved ‘en masse’ due to food shortages driven by climate shifts and overfishing

Severe food shortages have caused thousands of penguins to ‘starve’ to death, a new study has found.

The Guardian - UK

60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

The Conversation

Pops Mohamed mixed old and new to reinvent South African music

Ismail Mohamed-Jan – better known by South African jazz fans as Pops Mohamed – has passed away at the age of 75. His life in music represented a struggle against narrow, oppressive definitions – of race, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.

The Independent UK

Springboks lock Eben Etzebeth handed long ban after red card for eye gouge

The South Africa lock was deemed to have made intentional/reckless contact with the eye of Wales flanker Alex Mann

The Independent UK

What to know about the long-running corruption case of former South African president Zuma

Former South African President Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thales have returned to court to appeal for the dismissal of the long-running corruption case against them

The Conversation

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

A few days after Donald Trump boycotted a G20 summit in Johannesburg, he announced South Africa would not be invited to the next G20 meeting, taking place at his resort in Miami in March 2026.

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