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06 July 2026 – Sasol Banyana Banyana Head Coach Dr Desiree Ellis has announced a preliminary squad of 31 players for the upcoming CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON 2026) to be held in Morocco from 26 July-16 August 2026. The squad will be trimmed down to 26 players who will travel to North
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A man who was beaten on CCTV by police has had to travel to a Cape Town court from the Eastern Cape each time at his own expense
Statement by Ryan Smith MP – DA Spokesperson on International Relations and Cooperation: The appointment of State Capture cadre, Ayanda Dlodlo as South African ambassador to France is the latest example of President Cyril Ramaphosa placing the interests of ANC cadres above those of South Africa and its foreign policy. Ayanda Dlodlo stands accused of …
6 July 2026 – The South African Football Association (SAFA) Women’s Football department concluded Youth Month (June) with two successful campaigns. Held under the FIFA Women’s Football Campaign banner, the project visited Witbank in Mpumalanga as well as Mothibistad in the Northern Cape for an uplifting programme for girls between 6-12 years in each province.
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Statement by Adrian Roos MP – DA Spokesperson on Home Affairs: The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes another important step towards making South Africa safer through stronger immigration enforcement under Minister Leon Schreiber. The Department of Home Affairs is currently recruiting 301 new immigration officers to strengthen the country’s ability to combat illegal immigration, enforce South …
Four players from the victorious Australian side have been named in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Team of the Tournament. The champions, who lifted the trophy for the seventh time, are the best represented nation, with runners-up England providing two players to the team. The remaining players in the XI, plus the 12th …
The Springbok Women found belief and reward at Ellis Park with their victory over the USA Eagles, but according to Springbok Women assistant coach Laurian Johannes-Haupt, they want to add to their skill set and top ten mindset when they meet the same opponents at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday. The Bok Women returned …
On the first of July 2026, WesBank welcomed a new cohort of graduates and interns to its headquarters in Fairland as they begin their journey through the organisation’s FirstJob programme, an initiative designed to equip young South Africans with meaningful workplace experience, professional development and the confidence to build successful careers. The induction marks the …
Historic wins, breakthrough shortlists and African jury representation mark a defining year for connected creativity across the Groupe. Publicis Groupe Africa is celebrating a standout performance at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2026, with the Leo Constellation named Regional Network of the Year for Sub-Saharan Africa and the region’s creative talent contributing to …
History was made this evening as the highly anticipated political thriller ’77: The Festac Conspiracy held its star-studded World Premiere at the International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. Serving as an anchor event for the Africa Creative Market (ACM) 2026, marking the first time the prestigious cross-continental market has expanded outside of Nigeria. The premiere …
“We must not forget to remember and keep fighting for those who have lost their lives” says Free Gender
Combining licensing, implementation and asset management in one integrated approach Johannesburg, South Africa: SoftwareOne and Plat4mation have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an integrated approach to ServiceNow, combining licensing, implementation and governed asset management into a single, cohesive strategy for customers across a broad range of industries and sectors. The partnership strengthens both companies’ …
South Africa has entered a critical phase in its upstream development. With new petroleum legislation in place, a national petroleum company established and the Karoo shale gas moratorium lifted, the country has taken important steps toward unlocking its oil and gas potential. The key question now is whether South Africa can translate policy momentum into investment, and Angola's reform experience provides a practical roadmap for doing so.
In Crude Oil: Power, Turnaround and Transformation in Angola, NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber, documents how coordinated legal, fiscal and structural reform reversed years of production decline in the country. The two countries operate in different contexts: Angola reformed a mature producing sector while South Africa is working to establish one. There is, however, a transferable lesson in the sequencing and institutional commitment that made Angola's reforms effective.
Angola Prioritized Structural Reform
When President João Lourenço took office in 2017, his administration conducted a 30-day sector review that led to sustained regulatory change. The newly-established National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (ANPG) took over upstream regulation, a function previously housed within state oil company Sonangol alongside its commercial portfolio. This coincided with the creation of a dedicated downstream regulator, Instituto Regulador dos Derivados do Petróleos, strengthening governance across the entire hydrocarbon value chain.
On a policy front, the 2018 Natural Gas Law gave Angola its first standalone framework for gas exploration and commercialization across an estimated 11 trillion cubic feet of reserves. The Permanent Offer Regime, introduced in 2021, opened acreage for negotiation on a rolling basis rather than through periodic bid rounds, resulting in 27 block awards. Following that, the Incremental Production Law came into effect in November 2024 and targets recovery of an estimated 500 million barrels from mature assets while extending their productive life by as much as 20 years.
These reforms quickly yielded strong results. Foreign direct investment rose by $2.59 billion in the same year Angola improved from 167th to 146th on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. Hydrocarbon production has now been sustained above one million barrels per day, while $70 billion in planned upstream investments signal rising international confidence in Angola's oil and gas opportunities.
“Angola's regulatory reforms demonstrate that political will, matched with clear fiscal and legal frameworks, can transform an upstream sector within a single policy cycle. These reforms offer critical lessons for countries such as South Africa, which has the opportunity to be a first-mover in establishing a strong regulatory environment,” states Ayuk.
South Africa's Regulatory Window is Open
South Africa has begun moving in a similar direction. The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act (UPRDA) was enacted in late 2024, consolidating upstream licensing and establishing a 20% mandatory carried interest for the state. The South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC) launched in May 2025, merging PetroSA, iGas and the Strategic Fuel Fund. In October 2025, the government lifted a 13-year moratorium on shale gas exploration in the Karoo Basin - estimated to contain up to 300 trillion cubic feet of shale resources.
The challenge for South Africa is implementation. Environmental litigation has blocked or delayed offshore exploration by TotalEnergies and Shell since 2022. In August 2025, the Western Cape High Court rescinded the environmental authorization for Block 5/6/7 off the southwest coast. The Brulpadda and Luiperd gas-condensate discoveries in the Outeniqua Basin, which an FTI Consulting analysis estimates could contribute up to R25 billion per year to the balance of payments, remain undeveloped.
Angola's experience suggests that legislative reform alone does not produce investment outcomes. The country's upstream investment trajectory followed from how quickly and consistently those reforms were applied – from the ANPG's operational launch through to the rolling award of blocks under the Permanent Offer Regime.
With the UPRDA, the SANPC and the Karoo moratorium lift, South Africa has put its own legislative foundation in place. Whether it can match that pace of execution will determine if the current wave of exploration interest in southern Africa's offshore basins finally extends south of the Namibian border.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Energy Chamber.
Mesia Gumede Leads 76Media Into a New Era of Purposeful Storytelling Celebrating Two Decades of Broadcast Excellence Johannesburg, South Africa — 76Media, one of South Africa’s most dynamic independent media and communications agencies, today celebrates the continued leadership of its Chief Executive Officer, Mesia Gumede who is a seasoned broadcast veteran, visionary director, and trusted …
Statement by Cllr Magda Botha – DA Walter Sisulu Caucus Leader: The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Walter Sisulu Local Municipality has written to the Hawks to request an urgent investigation into a long-term lease consortium agreement of key Walter Sisulu municipal assets. The deal involves assets including the Aliwal Spa Holiday Resort, Buffelspruit Nature …
Moroccan banks closed a net 151 branches in 2025 as lenders continued to shrink their physical networks amid rising digital […]
South Africa Under-19 will head into Monday's series decider with everything to play for after England Under-19 produced a dominant eight-wicket victory at the County Ground in Northampton on Friday to level the three-match Youth ODI series at 1-1.
The countdown to the first Wavepool Surf Tour event is underway, with registrations now open for the inaugural Alaïa Surf Challenge at Alaïa Bay in Switzerland. Taking place from 1 August to 25 October 2026, the Alaïa Surf Challenge is the opening event of the 2026/27 Wavepool Surf Tour season and the first opportunity for surfers …
Disciplined bowling from the SA Under-19 bowlers and a measured unbeaten half-century from Muhammed Bulbulia guided the South Africans to a commanding six wicket win in the first Youth ODI against England Under-19 at Grace Road in Leicester on Tuesday.
Rallies hold great significance in Tanzania and are central to everyday political communication.
For years, a Johannesburg school's soccer coach did the entire team's laundry himself. Several evenings a week he and the teachers carried the kit home, washed and dried it, and brought it back so the squad had something clean to train in. Their changing room was a bare space with one toilet, a broken mirror and nowhere to store a thing. There was no shortage of talent or commitment – the surroundings just held it all back.
Until very recently, this was the reality at Kensington Secondary School. With the help of LG Electronics South Africa (https://apo-opa.co/4eQr5B2), the achiever who chose to fix it was Williams Okpara, the Nigerian goalkeeper who spent more than a decade guarding Orlando Pirates' posts and still holds the club's appearance record. His episode opens Make Life Good, LG's six-part reality series made in partnership with MultiChoice, a Canal+ company, and hosted by Jessica Nkosi. It has aired on Mzansi Magic every Thursday at 19:00 since 11 June, with repeats on Saturdays at 14:00 and Sundays at 09:30.
The premise is rare for reality television. No prizes or eliminations, no scandals or tempers boiling over. Instead, six change-makers – or as they are affectionately known by LG as ‘Achievers' – each return to a cause they already back, and the build teams get 24 hours to remake a space that shapes the people who use it. What connects them is geography as much as generosity: the Achievers come from across the continent, from South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, yet every organisation they chose sits in a South African community close to their hearts and in need of support.
In Lanseria, that community is a safe home and orphanage for babies and young children called LIV Lanseria, backed by Saray Khumalo, the South African mountaineer who became the first Black African woman to summit Everest. Her makeover turned a room with a single two-plate stove into a fully-fledged, working kitchen. A 900 L fridge now holds food for the whole home. A dishwasher returns the hours volunteers used to lose at the sink. A microwave warms a bottle evenly, without the cold spots that catch out a tired caregiver. The appliances follow the problem, which is the guiding principle in bringing together the Achievers, LG and Multichoice to make a difference by using their specialities.
The pattern holds at a skills programme for unemployed men, where a small projector gave way to a 100-inch smart display that now runs learning demonstrations and its written theory side by side, as well as an energy-efficient air conditioner that keeps a packed training room usable through the afternoon. In a country that plans its weeks around the unpredictable availability of service delivery, that efficiency is what lets a stretched organisation keep the equipment running once the cameras leave.
"Life's Good is our slogan, but this series asks us to prove it where life isn't always easy or fair," says Pennileigh Naidu, Head of Corporate Marketing and PR at LG Electronics South Africa. She frames it as a deliberate move away from product-led marketing. "We didn't want to talk about impact, we wanted to show it. For every organisation, we started with the operational problem they live with daily, then chose the technology that removes it." Her measure of success, she emphasises, is the hours a caregiver gets back and the dignity a working kitchen restores.
That is the shift worth a marketer's or a technologist's attention. Corporate social investment has tended to sit off to the side of the business, a cheque written and a photograph taken. Make Life Good folds the impact into the brand and invites the harder question of whether the fridge is still working, and still useful, a year from now. Naidu calls it shared value rather than charity, the point where commercial capability and social relevance stop competing for the same budget.
The series reaches viewers in Kenya and Nigeria too, and sits within LG's wider regional storytelling, gathered in its newsroom feature "Beyond the Product". This season, though, the work was South African, room-by-room and need-by-need.
The crews have now packed up, and the Achievers have started their work on making changes with more communities. What stays behind in a Lanseria kitchen and a Kensington changing room is quieter and more durable: kit dried overnight, meals prepped faster, an afternoon lesson a full class can finally see. None of it will trend, but all of it will still be working when the next intake of children arrives.
Make Life Good – the Achievers and their causes
Williams Okpara (Nigeria) – Kensington Secondary School soccer programme, Johannesburg
Saray Khumalo (South Africa) – LIV Lanseria children's home, Lanseria
Adze Ugah (Nigeria) – Bold Men Skills Program / BBM Foundation
Esther Munyi (Kenya) – Botshabelo Babies Home, Midrand
Thandi Mavata (South Africa) – The House Group, Johannesburg
Perpetual Kendi (Kenya) – Moses Molelekwa Arts Foundation, Tembisa
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of LG Electronics.
About 200 people were taken to the Louis Trichardt showgrounds on Sunday
FAME Week Africa and Frames of Freedom Launch New Initiative Connecting Africa’s Brightest Film Researchers with the Screen Industry Johannesburg, South Africa: – FAME Week Africa has partnered with Frames of Freedom to launch a new webinar series that brings Africa’s leading film researchers into conversation with the screen industry, creating a platform where groundbreaking …
Affinity Health, a leading provider of high-quality health cover, is raising awareness about how artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to shape the future of mental healthcare during Mental Illness Awareness Month. From earlier detection to improved access to support, AI is expected to play an increasing role in helping healthcare professionals identify, monitor, and support people living …