Prudence Sekgodiso Crowned Sportswoman of the Year in Another Major Career Triumph

Seven Emfuleni Local Municipality employees are expected to appear in the Vanderbijlpark Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning following a weekend arrest operation targeting an alleged illegal electricity reconnection scheme.

The suspects, attached to the municipality’s Revenue and Electrical departments, face allegations of fraud, theft and tampering with essential infrastructure.

Five of the employees were arrested during a takedown operation in Vanderbijlpark on Friday, while two more suspects were arrested over the weekend as investigators continued pursuing thoseREAD MORE

Large parts of Johannesburg have been plunged into darkness after City Power isolated the Fordsburg Substation following the detection of smoke in underground cable tunnels.

The substation was isolated at about 5 pm on Sunday as a safety precaution while Emergency Management Services and City Power teams worked to determine the source of the smoke and assess the condition of the electricity infrastructure.

The isolation has had a wider impact across the interconnected electricity network, affecting severalREAD MORE

The race for the 2026 MTN8 final has burst into life, with Orlando Pirates and Golden Arrows both securing valuable first-leg advantages in two tightly contested semi-final encounters.

Defending champions Orlando Pirates struck first on Saturday, edging Sekhukhune United 1–0 at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane to take a precious advantage into the return leg.

Deon Hotto proved to be the difference between the sides, finding the decisive goal in the first half as PiratesREAD MORE

The President of the Global Energy Association has hailed Tatneft as a “peculiar” and technologically advanced Russian oil company that has managed to turn fracking into a lucrative business. 

Dr Sergey Brilev said Tatneft is one of the first companies in the world to turn the dream of capturing and pumping CO2 into oil to reduce emissions and increase oil production. 

Speaking to African Times on the sidelines of the Oil Summit in Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan,READ MORE

A sentence buried in South Africa’s own grid operator adequacy modelling deserves far more attention than it has received. Even with every available battery and pumped-storage scheme dispatched at full tilt during the evening peak, the projected shortfall for 2030 still does not close.

That admission comes from the National Transmission Company South Africa’s Medium-Term System Adequacy Outlook 2026–2030 (MTSAO 2025). It is not a critic’s warning about the pace of the energy transition. It is the systemREAD MORE

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — As classrooms worldwide grapple with the transformative yet disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI), a fundamental question hangs over the future of education: what is schooling for when machines can outthink humans?

This question has recently taken centre stage in Beijing, where global academics, policymakers and frontline educators gathered to map out new models for teaching in the intelligent era. Amid the lively cross-border exchanges, one reality is clear: China’s large-scale experiments withREAD MORE

A 30-year-old black woman. Dineo Mokwele.
Admin assistant at BMW. 12 qualifications.
She applied for a job. She was successful.
 
Then came the crosshairs. Paul O’Sullivan said it out loud: “A 28 year old admin assistant from BMW parachuted to a brigadier.”
 
That’s when the charges were formulated.
That’s when an open invitation became high-intensity intelligence warfare.
 
The issue is not one angry white man of pensionable age. The issue is a corrupt system of whitenessREAD MORE

At the 2026 World Robot Conference, we saw China’s robotic hands in action, from welding cars on factory lines to sorting packages in warehouses, from making coffee to sensing a feather landing on a robotic palm. They’re not perfect yet. The real challenge ahead is making these systems reliable, flexible and useful beyond the lab or the show floor.

African Times has published this article in partnership with Xinhua News Agency

The Border Management Authority has strengthened South Africa’s preparedness for public health emergencies by conducting a two-day Ebola Virus Disease simulation exercise at the Beitbridge Port of Entry in Musina, Limpopo.

The exercise, held from 19 to 20 August, was the BMA’s second Ebola simulation this year and follows a similar exercise conducted at OR Tambo International Airport on 19 June.

The latest exercise focused on testing South Africa’s ability to detect, assess and respond to aREAD MORE