# Motorsport: Red Bull’s Formula One team manager, Christian Horner, has been fired with immediate effect after 20 years in charge. He led them to six constructors and eight drivers’ championships since 2005. Allegations of inappropriate behaviour made against Horner by a female colleague in February last year were dismissed following an appeal. High-profile figures […]
# Die nasionale polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, het die hoof van die Valke in die Wes-Kaap, Solomon Makgato, as waarnemende afdelingskommissaris vir misdaadintelligensie aangestel. Hy sê dit volg na die inhegtenisneming van die afdelingskommissaris vir misdaadintelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo, en ses ander verlede maand weens bewerings van bedrog. Masemola sê die polisie het volle vertroue in Makgato […]
# Die nasionale polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, sê sekerheidsmaatreëls is verskerp by die huis van die KwaZulu-Natalse polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, in Durban ná doodsdreigemente. Mkhwanazi het die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, beskuldig van regstreekste inmenging met ondersoeke na politieke sluipmoorde en georganiseerde misdaad deur die elite politieke moord-taakspan te ontbind. Masemola sê hy het nooit […]
# Lesotho has declared a national “state of disaster” over soaring unemployment and mass job losses as it reels from the economic fallout of US tariffs and aid cuts. The textile-dependent economy was already grappling with sky-high unemployment, especially among the youth, before president Donald Trump slashed aid and raised trade barriers. The law, which […]
# Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit North Korea this weekend, the latest in a series of high-profile visits by top Moscow officials, as the two countries deepen military ties. Pyongyang has become one of Moscow’s main allies during its more than three-year-long invasion of Ukraine, sending thousands of troops and container loads of […]
# Rugby: Jasper en Cobus Wiese word dalk die 37ste stel broers om Suid-Afrika te verteenwoordig indien hulle Saterdag saam op die veld is in die tweede toets teen Italië in Gqeberha. Agsteman Jasper het reeds 28 wedstryde vir die nasionale span gespeel en is in die beginspan gekies. Cobus, wat slot of flank vir […]
# China has condemned new restrictions by the US on Chinese purchases of US farmland as “discriminatory” and violating international trade rules. The Trump administration said this week that the US would begin restricting purchases of farmland by Chinese nationals and other “foreign adversaries”. China’s foreign ministry condemned the restrictions as “a typical discriminatory practice […]
# Gaza’s civil defence agency says 20 people, including at least six children, were killed in two Israeli air strikes overnight in the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report. The bombings came as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US president Donald Trump in Washington and discussed the ongoing […]
# Toymaker Mattel has launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes in a bid to foster a greater sense of inclusion and empathy among children. The new doll wears a small device that continuously measures her blood sugar. She also has a phone that displays an app to help track her blood sugar […]
