Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Tuesday Morning Spice

How top trophy hunters are killing off leopards, Two runners died during comrades marathon, Trump sends another 2,000 National Guards and 700 Marines to LA, The cookware craze redefining ‘ceramic’ and ‘nontoxic’, and SA secures R26.5bn World Bank infrastructure loan.

Monday Morning Spice

Magnus Carlsen has the final say, Alcaraz stuns Sinner in extraordinary French Open final, Cape Town budget backlash continues, Pentagon secretly planted Area 51 UFO conspiracy theory, and Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops in LA.

Friday Morning Spice

Alarm bells for meat lovers in South Africa, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman buy Australian SailGP team, Resilience spacecraft crashes into the moon, JSE breaks another record, and KZN shoot-to-kill strategy hits Gauteng highways.

Thursday Morning Spice

New Gauteng number plates unveiled, Animal transport crackdown imminent across SA, R2.90 per litre petrol price joy for South Africa, Trump signs proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries, and Who’s hiding what in the Markus Jooste death mystery?

Wednesday Morning Spice

UK demands Abramovich’s Chelsea sale funds go to Ukraine war victims, Musk blasts Trump’s agenda bill as a ‘disgusting abomination, IDF says roads to Gaza aid centres are ‘combat zones’, and South Africans banned from swimming at Durban beaches.

Cape Town’s Central Line Finally Reopens After 4 Years

While the City should probably be applauded for reopening the rail line, it’s still flippin’ ridiculous that a line that can carry 350,000 commuters a day has been allowed to deteriorate and be vandalised to the point where it stood still for four years.