# Rugby: The Lions, Bulls and Sharks are in action this weekend in the round of 16 of the Challenge Cup. The Lions have a tough nut to crack when they face Edinburgh at 9pm tonight in Scotland. Tomorrow afternoon at half-past-one the Bulls are in France to face Bayonne. The Sharks have to wait […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse streekslugredery, Airlink, het die Internasionale Lugvervoervereniging se Omgewingsertifisering ontvang. Die toekenning erken Airlink se toewyding aan wêreldwye omgewings- en volhoubaarheidstandaarde. Dit sluit in die nakoming van die Buckinghampaleis-verklaring om onwettige handel in wild te beveg. Die uitvoerende bestuurder van Airlink, Hardus Kuschke, het die maatskappy se pogings beklemtoon om bedreigde wild te […]
# Rugby: Springbok fullback Willie le Roux has extended his contract with the Bulls till June 2027. Since arriving at Loftus in Pretoria at the end of the 2023 World Cup he has made 29 appearances across the United Rugby Championship and the Champions Cup. The versatile double World Cup-winning backliner arrived on an initial […]
# Israel announced it killed a commander of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Hassan Farhat, in a strike in the Lebanese port city of Sidon that also killed his adult son and daughter. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the strike as a “flagrant attack on Lebanese sovereignty” and a breach of the November 27 ceasefire […]
# Equities extended losses in Asia and Europe today, extending a global rout inflicted by Donald Trump’s tariff blitz that has inflamed a trade war and ramped up recession and inflation fears. The US president’s harsher-than-expected “Liberation Day” levies sent shockwaves through markets yesterday, with Wall Street suffering its worst day since the early days […]
# A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four-percent chance of smashing into the Moon. That’s according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The asteroid, thought to be capable of levelling a city, set a new record in February for having the highest chance, 3.1-percent, […]
# Sweden’s Volvo Cars, owned by China’s Geely, will increase its production of vehicles in the United States and probably produce an additional model there, following US president Donald’s Trump’s introduction of tariffs. As of yesterday, cars manufactured outside the United States are subject to a 25-percent tariff, while a tariff on spare parts is […]
# Die UDM weerlê bewerings dat hy vir die 0.5-persentasiepunt BTW-verhoging gestem het en verklaar hy ondersteun die 2025/26-begroting se fiskale raamwerk onder streng voorwaardes. Die UDM se adjunkpresident, Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, sê die party dring aan op uitgawesbesparings en die behoefte aan finansiële balans, terwyl noodsaaklike welsynsprogramme soos die maatskaplike verligting van noodtoelaag gehandhaaf word:
# ActionSA sê hy erken die ANC se verbintenis om parlementêre aanbevelings in te stel. Die party vra konstruktiewe betrokkenheid by die 30-dae-lange proses om alternatiewe inkomstevoorstelle af te handel. Matthew George van ActionSA dring aan dat die BTW-verhoging van 0,5-persentasiepunte geskrap moet word en inflasie-aanpassings vir persoonlike inkomstebelasting gehandhaaf moet word. Hy versoek alle […]
