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South Africa News
Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in South Africa?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSouth_Africa&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
"articles": {
"results": [
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"url": "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/news/south-africa/transnet-ramps-up-cape-town-port-preparations-for-fruit-export-season/",
"title": "Transnet ramps up Cape Town port preparations for fruit export season",
"body": "The Department of Transport and state freight utility Transnet are shifting from isolated operational fixes to a full value-chain governance model to prevent severe export bottlenecks at the Port of Cape Town during the upcoming deciduous fruit season.\n\nFollowing heavy losses last season, where extreme weather conditions severely constrained loading windows, Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has detailed a major structural shift proposed by industry agents and shipping lines: expanding port \"war rooms\" beyond Transnet's internal operations to encompass all private supply chain players.\n\nRead: Transnet eyes R35bn funds\n\nDuring November and December of the previous season, the Port of Cape Town experienced 32 days with wind speeds exceeding 100km/h, which prevented fruit loading every second day despite R2 billion in capital expenditure on new equipment.\n\nThe core operational failure occurred when calm weather windows opened - insufficient dock labour was available to make up for lost time.\n\nLabour and rail capacity restructuring\n\nTo maximise throughput during brief operational windows, Transnet is implementing key labour and infrastructure measures.\n\nThese include:\n\n* Leave schedule reorganisation - Western Cape stevedores will no longer take leave during the intensive export season;\n\n* Inter-port workforce support - Auxiliary stevedores are being brought in from Durban and Gqeberha to operate all berths simultaneously when the wind dies down; and\n\n* Belcon rail scaling - Transnet is increasing train movements from its Belcon back-of-port facility from one or two trains to five concurrent trains; with the capacity to carry up to 100 containers per train, the expanded rail throughput is designed to reduce truck congestion at port gates.\n\nHighlighting the operational imperative while speaking to Moneyweb@Midday host Jeremy Maggs, Creecy stated:\n\n\"The key issue is when the wind stopped. Can you get all hands on deck immediately?\n\n\"Because you may only have five or six hours in which to load up a ship before the wind starts again, and what we found was that we didn't have sufficient labour available in the docks. And this year we have reorganised the leave schedule so that those stevedores [who] are working in the Western Cape don't take leave during the intensive season.\n\n\"But what we are also doing is we are bringing in stevedores from Durban and also from the port of Gqeberha so that when the wind stops, we can operate every berth in the dock.\"\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, climate change is a fact of life. So we have to accept that we are likely to have severe wind, and we can't be using that as an excuse for not performing,\" she said.\n\n\"What we have to do is to develop our operating systems to such a point that we can operate even if there is extreme wind, and when that wind dies, we must be ready to roll.\"\n\nPort 'community'\n\nAddressing the broader logistics network, private freight agents and shipping lines requested the establishment of a \"port community of practice\".\n\nRather than focusing strictly on Transnet assets, the new framework establishes a joint operational war room to manage data visibility and performance across producers, agents, storage facilities, and carriers.\n\nDuring August and September, stakeholders are finalising baseline information-sharing protocols among competing commercial players, with long-term plans to deploy an AI-backed IT system across the value chain.\n\nRead:\n\nTransnet's bulk rail performance returns to pre-Covid levels\n\nPrasa denies paying Cape Town gangster-linked companies\n\nDetailing the transition away from an internal focus, Creecy said what interested her was that stakeholders said not everything was within Transnet's purview, and that in modern ports there is a community of port systems.\n\n\"They were saying to us 'Your war rooms are fine, but your war rooms are focused on Transnet itself',\" she said.\n\n\"Now we need to [set] up a war room that [deals] with the whole value chain. And everybody in that value chain has to be accountable.\n\n\"What we are working on during August and September is what information we need in order [for] the value chain [to] function effectively.\n\n\"And how will [commercial players], who normally [compete] with each other, cooperate on this baseline information so that we get better productivity?\n\n\"Of course, in the long term, we want to put in an IT system to handle this. But while we are developing that system, we've got to be using human beings.\"",
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"title": "Lewis says its CEO should be paid 23% more",
"body": "Listed furniture retailer Lewis Group says an independent benchmarking survey found that the fixed remuneration of its CEO, Johan Enslin, was below the 25th percentile of the peer group. Based on this, his remuneration would require a once-off increase of 23%.\n\nThe group's remuneration committee (Remco) says \"at its discretion\" it decided to align the chief executive officer's total guaranteed pay over a number of years and granted an increase of 12.3% effective 1 April 2025.\n\nRead/listen:\n\nStrong results push Lewis yield over 10%\n\nLewis raises payout as revenue tops R10bn\n\nEnslin received total guaranteed pay (TGP) of R8.715 million in the 2026 financial year, according to its recently published annual report.\n\nThe group appointed REM Solutions to conduct two benchmarking surveys in 2025 and 2026.\n\nIt says: \"The scope of both remuneration surveys was to benchmark the total guaranteed pay, short-term and long-term incentives, remuneration mix and performance levels in relation to short-term incentives with a peer group which included mainly listed retail companies. A review of non-executive directors' fees was also included.\"\n\nTargets achieved\n\nIn 2025, Enslin received total remuneration of R58.9 million, the bulk of which (R35.4 million) comprised share awards under its executive retention scheme across a matching award, three-year award and five-year award.\n\nThe shares vested in July 2025. He was also paid a cash performance bonus of R14.7 million in the year. This total remuneration was 70% greater than the 2025 amount (R34.6 million).\n\nRead/listen:\n\nGloves are off in retail\n\nHow are our other discretionary listed retailers looking? [Oct 2025]\n\nAccording to the Remco report, Lewis's \"profit before taxation target was exceeded by 10.2%, and consequently, in terms of the rules of the scheme, executives and senior management qualified for maximum cash bonuses\".\n\nIt has six targets - revenue, gross profit, operating costs, satisfactory paid customers, collection rates and profit before taxation - and all were achieved in FY 2026.\n\nThe group says the average remuneration of the top 5% of its South African staff is R982 008 per year, while for the bottom 5% it is R69 103 per year.\n\nThe remuneration gap ratio between these two cohorts is 14.2 times.\n\nInterestingly, it is technically not compelled to disclose these, as the listed entity \"Lewis Group\" has no employees. It says, however, that it prepared this disclosure, which is now required under Section 30B of the Companies Act, \"in the spirit of the legislation\".\n\nLewis has been one of the top performers in the retail sector over the last five years, with its share price increasing by 114%.\n\nThe Cape Town-headquartered group pays hefty dividends (its dividend yield is currently 10.66%), which means its total return over that period was 244%.\n\nNon-executive directors' fees\n\nIt says that in the \"2026 survey, the review of the non-executive directors' fees indicated that the level of non-executive director remuneration was in line with the peer group, with the exception of the base fee for directors and the fee applicable to the chairperson of the risk committee\".\n\n\"In order to achieve closer alignment with peer group remuneration levels, these proposed fees were increased above the average non-executive remuneration adjustment, effective 1 July 2026.\"\n\nThis sees a 20.4% jump in the fees paid to the chair of the risk committee (currently Daphne Motsepe) from 2027 (R295 000) and a 7.8% increase in the base fees paid to non-executive directors (R468 000).",
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"title": "Restoring public trust in PR post Bell Pottinger scandal",
"body": "Nomsa Mdhluli, founder of Tishala Communications, assembled a team of strategic minds and creative thinkers to shape narratives for businesses in an ethical way.\n\nFor Nomsa Mdhluli, the move from journalism into public relations was not a departure from storytelling. It was an evolution of it.\n\nThe founder and CEO of Johannesburg-based Tishala Communications began her career in the newsroom, working as a journalist and broadcaster.\n\nShe had trained her instincts around finding the story, asking difficult questions, and making complex information understandable to an audience.\n\nMany years after building herself up as a credible voice in the journalism industry, Mdhluli traded the mic for a career in PR.\n\n\"I'm an accidental entrepreneur, it was never in the plan for my life. PR was just a side hustle for me,\" Mdhluli said on the Mzansi Business podcast.\n\n\"I was a morning news anchor and knocked off at 10am. To fill my time, I would freelance as a publicist, working mainly on arts and culture events. Even after focusing on journalism, I still got calls to come and help out on campaigns. It's a talent and gift I never thought I had, but it was never a surprise that I was good at it.\"\n\nFor Mdhluli, journalism provided the foundation.\n\nShe registered Tishala Communications in 2018 as demand for her PR services grew. For several years, she balanced the company with her journalism career before taking the decisive step of leaving journalism in 2023 to run Tishala full-time.\n\n\"Honestly speaking, there was no plan because I never really saw myself as an entrepreneur until I left the media industry and I saw increasing confidence in the services that we offered - it's then that I decided I really need to take this seriously,\" she added.\n\nBuilding a company required her to move beyond being the person who could tell a good story to becoming the person responsible for creating systems, winning clients, managing people and making commercial decisions.\n\nRead: Corporate finance executive turns fashion trailblazer\n\nToday, Tishala is a multi-award-winning PR and digital marketing agency working across sectors ranging from technology and mining to pharmaceuticals.\n\nRestoring trust in the industry\n\nMdhluli's journey into PR has taken place against a complicated backdrop for the industry in South Africa.\n\nFew events damaged the reputation of public relations more profoundly than the Bell Pottinger scandal of 2017.\n\nThe British PR firm was hired by the Gupta family's Oakbay Capital and became embroiled in a campaign that used communication tactics to inflame racial tensions in South Africa around concepts including \"white monopoly capital\" and \"economic apartheid\".\n\nIt was understood to be at attempt to distract the public from state capture corruption claims.\n\nAn independent investigation found serious failures in the firm's management and oversight of its work, including using tactics that could mislead or undermine journalists.\n\nBell Pottinger was subsequently expelled from the UK's Public Relations and Communications Association.\n\nRead: Why hiding from Sars will sink your small business\n\nThat legacy matters because PR ultimately sells something more valuable than media coverage: trust.\n\n\"There have been times when I walked away from clients because we are asked to spin things that are unethical that also border on criminal activity, and that's where we draw the line,\" says Mdhluli.\n\n\"We are big cheerleaders of ethical behaviour.\"\n\nWhile the Bell Pottinger scandal impacted public trust, Mdhluli believes the industry has managed to redeem itself since then.\n\nShe says she has big plans for Tishala Communications, including international collaborations.\n\nYou can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.",
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"body": "Ryan Murphy, director of the controversial Netflix true-crime Monster Anthology (2022-), and Bret Easton Ellis, literary provocateur and author of American Psycho (1991), seem the perfect match. Sure enough, Murphy's new TV adaptation of Ellis's 2023 novel, The Shards, for Disney+ is an exhilarating mix of teen drama, serial killer nail-biter and homoerotic cat-and-mouse thriller.\n\nThe Shards features a fictionalised version of Ellis himself (a standout performance by Igby Rigney). The show details the unravelling of a close-knit group of friends during their senior year at a private LA high school in 1981. It's triggered by the simultaneous arrival of a charismatic and mysterious newcomer, Robert Mallory (Homer Gere, son of Richard Gere), and the terror and destruction wrought by a serial killer at large in the community dubbed \"the Trawler\". Are these events coincidental? Or connected in some way?\n\nEllis has said that the appeal of his precocious first novel, Less Than Zero (1985) (which he was indeed working on in his senior year, as the series shows) was that it allowed viewers to imagine what it would be like to be a privileged youngster in cool, affluent Beverley Hills.\n\nREAD | 'Dream come true': Kaia Gerber and Graham Campbell on leading Ryan Murphy's 'The Shards'\n\nThis TV incarnation of The Shards presents a particularly vivid version of this fantasy. The affluent teenagers pad around beautiful, empty houses, throw endless pool parties, drive through LA in their shiny cars and indulge in as much drugs and sex as they want.\n\nYet the flip-side of such extraordinary freedom is excessive vulnerability. The story of the Trawler recalls the dark history of late 1970s and 1980s LA. It was a time when over 20 serial killers - each given similarly foreboding monikers like the Night Stalker or the Hillside Strangler - were also traversing the city.\n\nWatching the lives of such a privileged group become shattered might be considered just deserts: a secret satisfaction for viewers enamoured by that Beverley Hills fantasy life. This is, after all, the kind of dark morality which propels the slasher movie (a genre which has influenced both Ellis and Murphy), where characters, usually girls, die in seemingly direct proportion to how sexually active they are.\n\nBut The Shards wants to do more than glamorise and invite critique of the lives of affluent youth in the US. Outwardly its sumptuous rendering of Westside interiors and exteriors tempt viewers to regard it as another example of TV's current fascination with displaying the indulgent existences of the super-wealthy, such as Big Little Lies (2017) or White Lotus (2021-).\n\nThe Shards aims at something more profound. At its heart is a comparison between 21st-century existence and the world of the early 1980s. The series reminds us that then there were no helicopter parents, no social media nor smartphones. Factors which explain how these teenagers can do what they wish without adult scrutiny.\n\nDespite the permissive atmosphere - as Bret's comparison of Mallory's arrival to \"a virus\" signals subtly - all this sexual decadence was, in only a few years, about to be extinguished by the advent of Aids.\n\nLessons for today\n\nYet The Shards also insists this era is the gateway to understanding the world we exist in now. This is a core message of the novel, conveyed powerfully through references to songs from the period.\n\nEllis's fiction has always used music as a way of summing up character or anchoring its narrative in a particular cultural moment. In The Shards, his observations about emblematic music tracks of the time - such as Ultravox's Vienna or Kim Wilde's video for Kids in America - focus on what he calls a pervasive social \"numbness\".\n\nThe novel's virtual soundtrack is one reason it feels so deeply personal. In literary terms, The Shards is what is known as an autofiction. It's a mode of writing which differs from straight autobiography. Autofiction conveys personal truth in a way which keeps it unverifiable or obscure, perhaps even to the authors themselves.\n\nLike Ellis' Lunar Park (2006), another magnificent autofiction, The Shards seems an effort to understand which dark parts of his psyche could have summoned up a creation like Patrick Bateman, the psychopathic anti-hero of American Psycho.\n\nMurphy's adaptation of The Shards - as expected given Ellis' close involvement as executive producer and co-writer - preserves much of this personal significance. This helps to elevate it above racy, entertaining but essentially empty, bonkbuster thrillers such as Hunting Wives (2025). It is hard, for example, not to see the casting of newcomer Gere, who plays Robert Mallory with a perfect combination of beauty and menace, in the light of Ellis' notes about the elemental impression the work of his father, Richard Gere, left on his own formative years.\n\nEllis' novel is remarkable for how it creates such a deeply immersive blend of image, narrative and soundtrack in prose. The tools available to screen directors ensure they can do this much more easily, as Murphy's version of The Shards demonstrates. But the pairing of director and writer ensures the series also, just about, avoids the superficial trap TV can fall into - the lingering on surfaces, the indulgence in sex scenes or gruesome murders. It preserves the powerful elements of autofiction and cultural analysis that drive the original work.",
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No matter what the reason for the interruption - burst pipes, pump station failures, illegal connections or maintenance shutdowns - \"the result for residents is the same: no water for extended periods, often with very little certainty about when their supply will be restored,\" said Ingrid Bester, who heads the community action group the Water Crisis Committee.\n\nRead/listen:\n\nCan Jack Bloom help fix SA's water crisis?\n\nJoburg is losing R10bn a year to water leaks and crumbling infrastructure\n\nStats SA survey lays bare SA's water supply failures\n\nJohannesburg Water said the Commando system is a complex network that is highly sensitive to mechanical, electrical and bulk-supply disruptions.\n\nRecent failures at the temporary Crosby Pump Station, including a City Power outage at the Delta substation on 11 August, disrupted recovery.\n\nJohannesburg Water said its main focus was restoring supply to Hursthill 2 and affected areas, including Westdene, Auckland Park, Melville, Emmarentia and Parktown West.\n\nLonger-term upgrades to the Commando system are underway, including a new Crosby Reservoir and a bulk pipeline, as well as repairs to Hursthill's reservoirs. 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Even councillors have said they have had to resort to PAIA applications to get information.\n\n\"There is no reason why information on water tankers should be a secret,\" said DA caucus leader in Johannesburg, Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku. 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