Consumer confidence dropped significantly in the third quarter but still remains above average despite a weak economy. The FNB/BER consumer confidence index dropped to 7-points in the third quarter, from 22-points in the second quarter of 2018. Analysts have attributed the drop to higher petrol prices in the same period. The move is also viewed as a correction from the euphoria of Cyril Ramaphosa's presidential appointment in the second quarter.

Rising global hunger level is putting in jeopardy the target to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030 with at least 821 million people faced with starvation.
At a global conference held in Bangkok, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the International Food and Research Institute (IFPRI) have warned that progress in ending hunger has stalled for three consecutive years and called for concerted efforts to achieve zero hunger worldwide. The meeting brings together agriculture ministers as well experts and delegates from Africa and Asia.

An investaigation by the SABC1 Current Affairs programme, Cutting Edge, has uncovered widespread sexual abuse of children with disabilities in special schools in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

An investaigation by the SABC1 Current Affairs programme, Cutting Edge, has uncovered widespread sexual abuse of children with disabilities in special schools in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Today marks World Children's Day. Declared by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, the day is aimed at pushing governments to pay more attention to the welfare of their youngest citizens.

The City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng is appealing to those who have applied for new IDs to collect them as soon as possible, so that they can register to vote during the voter registration period on 26 and 27 January 2019.

Nigeria are on a revenge mission and have declared war on Bafana Bafana ahead of Saturday's 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg.

Parliament's joint Constitutional Review Committee has adopted a report which recommends that Section 25 of the Constitution be amended to explicitly allow for land to be expropriated without compensation. Committee chair, Lewis Mzimande, spoke on a media briefing.

Speaking at the International Fraud Awareness Week seminar in Bloemfontein, Rockman says officials in the government are also empowered to act in order to minimise the impact of fraud.

Eastern Cape police are hot on heels of a suspect who allegedly raped a 74-year-old grandmother on Saturday last week in her homestead in New Locality at Hofmeyr in the province's interior.