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South Africa has proposed its biggest citizenship reset in a generation, with government proposing a shift away from time served toward merit-based citizenship - and that’s only the start. The same draft plan also tightens immigration and asylum rules, rewrites how visas work, and lays the groundwork for a far more digital state. In other news, three major private colleges are running out of road after regulators moved to cancel their registrations, while borrowers could finally see relief as analysts pencil in interest rate cuts for 2026.

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The ANC’s succession race has quietly begun, with Ramaphosa still in office but the countdown to 2027 now unmistakably ticking. At the same time, a political fight over Starlink is exposing deeper tensions about who really sets policy, while the party draws firm red lines on NHI and BEE inside an uneasy coalition government. In other news: inflation expectations are cooling and citizenship rules may. be tightening. and in the wildcard, we explain why South Africans are still struggle to plug in overseas.

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South Africa’s border security takes centre stage as the Home Affairs Minister warns that outdated systems and missing surveillance tech are turning our ports into a national security risk. In business, Mr Price’s R10 billion leap into Europe rattles investors, while Washington hints South Africa could be sidelined from the next AGOA extension. In other news: a matric exam breach, another legal setback for the MK Party, and the rand’s strongest level in nearly three years. With a wildcard that takes a closer look at how South Africa would communicate in a network blackout.

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Australian teens are waking up to a world without social media after the first blanket under-16 ban goes live - and South Africa is already debating whether it should follow. The ANC’s National General Council is wrestling with its own follow-through problem, while the IMF offers praise with one hand and a debt warning with the other. In other news: WBHO lands a multibillion-rand airport project, the FSCA drops a record penalty on Banxso, and Starlink tests Namibia’s resolve on ownership rules. And in the wildcard, a closer look at the surprising engineering built into your banknotes.

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South Africa’s defence force is straining at the seams, with only a small band of soldiers fit to deploy and Parliament still in the dark about what’s really going on. In business, SPAR joins a growing list of South African retailers pulling back from costly foreign ventures, while Eskom scrambles to keep the ferrochrome industry from shutting down entirely. In other news: China’s record trade surplus, a G20 accreditation snub, and the ANC’s internal election shake-up. And in the wildcard: the real reason Durban and Cape Town feel like two different countries when you step into the water. 

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South Africa wakes up to Netflix’s trillion-rand swing at Warner Bros and a TV landscape tilting under its feet, even as DStv fends off pressure from every direction. Ramaphosa’s GBV disaster declaration lands with a call for men to change their behaviour, while Traxtion’s multibillion-rand rail gamble tests whether private operators can fix what Transnet can’t.  In other news: Qantas opens a new route, big JSE listings loom, Makate wins his payout battle - and Gauteng claims its place among the world’s lightning capitals. 

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South Africa’s policing crisis comes into sharp focus as the Madlanga Commission reels from the killing of a key witness and rising fears that testimony may dry up just as the inquiry starts exposing criminal networks inside law enforcement. Moody’s and S&P can’t agree on whether the country is turning a corner, with one agency upgrading us and the other holding firm on junk. SARS is tightening its grip on crypto ahead of sweeping global reporting rules. The quickfire news cycle brings political probes and a blockbuster streaming deal, and our wildcard dives into the rare plankton blooms that make parts of the coastline glow.

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South Africa’s population puzzle deepens as a fibre company claims the country may be far bigger than official estimates admit, while the ANC walks into a major policy gathering with salaries unpaid and donors disappearing. In business, a nationwide slowdown in store brands hints at a more strategic, promotion-driven shopper, and in sport, Aiden Markram steers the Proteas to a record chase in India. And our wildcard breaks down why South Africa has one of the best views of the Milky Way on Earth.

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South Africa’s passport has climbed to 51st on the global index, with new visa-free access opening up even as long-standing barriers in the West remain firmly in place. Parliament’s 30% matric debate turns out to rest on a myth, while DStv’s holiday lineup could shrink as twelve Warner Bros Discovery channels face the chop. In other news: the economy keeps edging forward despite another electricity dip, fuel prices jump again, and a private rail operator bets billions on freight. 

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South Africa’s online gambling boom has turned into a regulatory mess, and Treasury now wants to tax its way through it. Inside the ANC, renewed whispers about Ramaphosa’s future are building ahead of next week’s council meeting, even as the party’s leagues close ranks around him. The Hawks, meanwhile, have uncovered a recruitment trail linking South Africans to Russia’s war zones under false pretences. And in today’s wildcard, we dig into the African continent’s slow geological split.

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