# The UK government has announced that it would extend a policy allowing the use of foreign seasonal agricultural workers for another five years, seeking to improve damaged relations with farmers. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said in a statement the move will give farms “a pipeline of workers and certainty to […]
# Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag het bedrogaanklagte teen die voormalige Johannesburgse burgemeester Kabelo Gwamanda en sy medebeskuldigde Mduduzi Zondo voorlopig teruggetrek. Die twee word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle Soweto-inwoners bedrieg het om te betaal vir vals begrafnispolisse by die onderneming iThemba Lama Afrika, waar hulle direkteure was. Phindi Mjonondwane van die NVG sê die saak word […]
# Rugby: Die Springbokke se hoofafrigter, Rassie Erasmus, het die stut Steven Kitshoff beskryf as ‘n ware spanspeler nadat hy gister sy uittrede aangekondig het. Die 33-jarige Kitshoff moes noodgedwonge uittree weens ‘n ernstige nekbesering. Hy het 83 toetse vir Suid-Afrika gespeel sedert sy debuut in 2016 en is ‘n tweemalige Wêreldbeker-kampioen. Erasmus sê Kitshoff […]
# African countries appointed three ex-leaders to oversee a push for peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo while an International Criminal Court prosecutor also arrived to investigate the upsurge in violence. Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, ex-Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn and ex-Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo have been appointed facilitators of a new peace […]
# Soccer: Pep Guardiola has denied the task of rebuilding Manchester City is the biggest challenge of his managerial career as his team battles for a top-four finish in the Premier League. City, who travels to face Tottenham tonight, is 20 points behind leaders Liverpool after losing 2-0 to Arne Slot’s side at the weekend. […]
# UK prime minister Keir Starmer makes a high-stakes visit to the White House tomorrow to try to convince US president Donald Trump to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as part of any ceasefire agreement with Russia. He will seek to build on French president Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Washington on Monday, when he warned […]
# Krieket: Afganistan se afrigter, die gewese Engelse kolwer Jonathan Trott, sê sy spelers besef maar te goed dinge is nie reg in hulle land nie. Hy het reageer nadat sowat 200 Britse politici vroeër vanjaar gevra het Engeland moet vandag se Kampioenetrofee-wedstryd teen die Asiese land in Lahore, Pakistan, boikot. Hulle was bekommerd oor […]
# French President Emmanuel Macron will brief fellow EU leaders today on his talks with US President Donald Trump, ahead of an emergency summit on European support for Ukraine. Antonio Costa, who heads the European Council representing the bloc’s 27 member states, announced on X he had convened a videoconference with Macron to prepare for […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het tradisionele leiers aangemoedig om die G20-beraad in November in Suid-Afrika te gebruik om die land se ryk kultuurerfenis ten toon te stel. Hy het by die Nasionale Huis van Tradisionele en Khoi-San-leiers benadruk dat kulturele diplomasie internasionale bande kan versterk, toerisme bevorder en ekonomiese geleenthede skep vir plaaslike gemeenskappe. Ramaphosa […]