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South Africa’s land reform debate is back in motion - this time with more than 17,000 hectares in KZN handed back to communities nearly three decades after they were removed, raising the same unresolved question: how do you know when restitution is actually done? That tension carries through elsewhere. Government’s lifestyle audits are getting better at spotting officials living beyond their means, but still struggling to act when it counts. Higher education is shifting from theory to real-world skills, with Unisa buying a full airfield to train students in industries where experience matters as much as a degree. And on the roads, enforcement is tightening ahead of Easter, with fines now tracked across systems - meaning old tickets don’t stay buried for long. Plus, just across the border, a once-rich diamond town has been slowly swallowed by the desert - a reminder that even booming systems don’t last forever.

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South Africa’s Post Office is edging closer to collapse, with liquidation now openly on the table after years of failed rescues. At the same time, government is quietly testing whether high-speed rail could ever work here - even as the current network struggles to stay on track. In business, the Showmax shutdown is raising regulatory eyebrows, while households are increasingly leaning on credit just to get through the month. On a lighter note, new baby name trends reveal a generation being welcomed with meaning and expectation.

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After nine months of producing the Daily Bagel show every single day, we’re stepping into the next chapter of Daily Bagel. In this video, we explain why we’re ending the daily show and what this shift allows us to build next. Daily Bagel isn’t going anywhere - if anything, it’s the start of something bigger. This is where the next phase begins.

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Artificial intelligence is quietly moving from answering questions to doing the work itself - with a new generation of “AI agents” now scheduling meetings, organising files, and triggering a surge in tech stocks that’s even lifting South Africa’s Naspers and Prosus. Meanwhile, fuel price panic is spreading online as early projections suggest petrol could rise by more than R3 a litre and diesel by nearly R6 if oil volatility continues. Pretoria has also summoned the new US ambassador after “undiplomatic” comments about BEE and a controversial court ruling - another reminder that diplomatic tensions are simmering this year. Plus: one of South Africa’s most daring prison escapes started with nothing more than wooden scraps.

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Brazil’s president has issued a blunt warning to South Africa: in an increasingly unstable world, countries that neglect their defence could one day find themselves exposed. Meanwhile, South Africa’s democracy may be getting crowded - with a record 508 political parties now registered ahead of the next local elections, raising concerns voters could face ballot papers long enough to get lost in. On the economic front, the country technically grew last year - but at just 1.1%, the kind of growth economists say barely moves the needle for jobs or incomes. And in Mpumalanga, a giant “human footprint” pressed into rock continues to fuel theories of ancient giants - even if geologists disagree.

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