Ronald Ralinala
The Obama Presidential Center is finally set to open its doors in Chicago this month, ending one of the most anticipated — and at times polarising — cultural projects in modern American history. Built on the city’s South Side in the historic Jackson Park neighbourhood, the $850 million complex is being billed as far more … Read more
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s high-stakes bid to overturn the damning Section 89 panel report on the Phala Phala saga now has a court date, and South Africa’s political class is scrambling to position itself before the gavel falls. The Western Cape High Court will hear the President’s review application from 2 to 4 September, with his … Read more
The grisly double‑murder of Ernst and Dina Marais, a retired couple from Mossel Bay, has taken another dramatic turn as two men were seized in Mozambique and are now being prepared for extradition back to South Africa. The arrests, the result of a coordinated cross‑border operation between South African and Mozambican crime‑fighting units, bring fresh … Read more
Parliament’s ad hoc committee has spent the best part of a year digging into claims of criminal syndicate infiltration inside the South African Police Service, and the inquiry is now hurtling towards a damning final report against suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu. After months of hearings, walkouts, pushback from Mchunu’s legal team and even a … Read more
SpaceX’s upcoming public offering has ignited a frenzy on the JSE and Wall Street alike, with investors pushing demand to roughly US$150 billion – about twice the $75 billion the company hopes to raise. Those numbers, whispered by two sources close to the underwriting team, suggest the most ambitious flotation the world has ever seen is already … Read more
For weeks now, the Cyril Ramaphosa presidency has been consumed by a single, stubborn storyline — the so-called “cash-in-the-sofa” scandal that refuses to fade from public conversation. What started as a parliamentary question about a burglary at his Phala Phala farm in 2020 has spiralled into the most serious threat to his political career since … Read more
President Cyril Ramaphosa is gearing up for a courtroom showdown that could reshape how South Africa’s Parliament handles misconduct allegations against the highest office‑holder. While the headlines continue to focus on the alleged foreign‑currency theft from his Limpopo game farm, legal analysts argue that the real stakes lie in the constitutional principles governing Section 89 impeachment powers … Read more
OpenAI is gearing up for what could become the most ambitious revamp of its flagship chatbot yet, positioning ChatGPT as a “super app” that bundles coding assistants, image generators and curated partner services. The move, disclosed by the Financial Times, is being driven by a desire to deepen enterprise revenue streams and to lay the … Read more
Arthur Sodinga, a 60‑year‑old labourer from the Eastern Cape, thought he was close to owning his modest RDP house after 18 years of steady payments. Yet, when he checked his statement in late 2023 the balance still showed more than R55 000 outstanding – despite having repaid nearly R300 000 since taking out a R48 000 loan from Standard Bank in 2008. … Read more
For nearly a decade, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stood almost alone at podiums in Brussels, sounding the alarm about Europe’s deepening reliance on Chinese supply chains. Back then, her warnings were brushed off as alarmist, protectionist, or just politically inconvenient. Now, with Chinese exports flooding European ports, electric vehicle factories opening in … Read more