# Die families van 67 slagoffers, insluitend oorlewendes en die families van die 41 oorledenes, het ‘n siviele regsgeding van 65-miljoen-rand aanhangig gemaak byna drie jaar na die LPG-tenkwa-ontploffing in Boksburg. Die aansoek in die Johannesburgse Hooggeregshof noem Infinite Fleet Transport, Innovative Staffing Solutions en die Stad Ekurhuleni as verweerders. Die eisers beweer nalatigheid in […]
# A new poll by the DA shows the ANC has lost 11 percentage points nationally since last year’s general election, with the party’s support now below 30-percent. The DA is just one percentage point behind at 29-percent. The DA has also overtaken the ANC in several metros. In Johannesburg, the ANC polls at 23-percent […]
# Rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus welcomed a morale-boosting victory over Australia on Saturday but the hopes of retaining the Rugby Championship title still rested on victory in New Zealand. Erasmus said the 30-22 victory was far from a perfect performance. He said compared to last week’s two or three out of ten performance, this […]
# A thirty-three-year-old car salesman from Paarl, has claimed the top spot at the 33rd Shoprite and Checkers Championship Boerewors finale, held in Cape Town on Saturday. Roberto-Rui Agrela emerged as the country’s best boerewors maker, outdoing more than two-thousand-350 hopefuls who entered the competition this year. Along with the bragging rights, Agrela drives away […]
# At least 12 people are dead, and four others are missing, after a railway bridge that was under construction in China collapsed. According to the Xinhua News Agency, 16 workers were on the bridge in Qinghai province when a steel cable snapped during a “tensioning operation”. Aerial photos show a large section missing from […]
# Tennis: World number three Alexander Zverev says he’s on the right path heading into the US Open after leaning on friends and professional help to address mental health concerns he revealed at Wimbledon. The German said after his first-round exit at the All England Club that he felt alone and empty and lacked joy […]
# Rugby: Australia launched their Women’s Rugby World Cup campaign with a record-breaking 73-0 thrashing of Samoa in Salford on Saturday. The Wallaroos scored 11 tries, with wing Desire Miller getting a first-half hat-trick. Australia surpassed both their previous highest points tally for a World Cup match: 62-12 against South Africa in 2006, and largest […]
# Rugby: The Cheetahs produced a solid performance to cruise to a 47-31 victory over the Lions on Saturday afternoon. The victory takes them to the top of the log, ahead of the Boland Cavaliers. The contest was a game of two halves. The home side coasted to a huge lead in the first 40 […]
# Turkey’s first lady, Emine Erdoğan, has written to Melania Trump, urging her to show the same concern for children in Gaza as she has for Ukrainian children affected by war. Trump previously sent Russian President Vladimir Putin her own letter concerning the nearly 20-thousand Ukrainian children that Kyiv’s government says have been abducted during […]
