Follow IOL's coverage as South Africa prepares for President Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA 2025 and traffic disruptions in Cape Town ...

Below is a selection of images from the State of the Nation Address (Sona), held on 06 February 2025 in Cape Town.

State of the Nation Address scheduled for Thursday, 6 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a Year of Reckoning on ...

The father of U.S. Army Black Hawk crew chief and Staff Sgt. Ryan O'Hara said his son loved flying over Washington, D.C., never expressed concerns about the crowded skies and described the crew as ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OPAL Fuels Inc. (Nasdaq: OPAL), today announced the appointment of Kazi Hasan as Chief Financial Officer, effective February 3, 2025. Mr. Hasan succeeds Scott ...

Eyal Zamir as the next Chief of the General Staff of the IDF. Zamir, who was a leading candidate, is expected to take office next month, just after outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi's ...

President Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is the first woman to ever hold the crucial White House post. Wiles was Trump’s co-campaign manager during his 2024 bid to regain the presidency.

According to Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, during a recent parliamentary Q&A, a typical Eskom customer consuming 800 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month paid around R1,055 in 2014. In the ...

This was expected to continue until Sunday night, but was suspended early. In a briefing on Friday, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, insisted new round of load shedding was only temporary ...

“So, my sense is that there is not going to be any load shedding going forward, starting from Monday, as it has been promised by both the CEO and the minister [Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa ...

During a press briefing on Friday afternoon, electricity and energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said this represents a temporary setback. He said Eskom would work to restore the system to ...

Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said on Friday that Eskom and the government at large had always made it clear that load shedding was not over, and the current risks underlined this.