# Tennis: World number six, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, confirmed his participation in the US Open, starting in New York on the 24th, after withdrawing from both the Canadian and Cincinnati Open. Last year, Djokovic played two events after the US Open, the Shanghai Masters and the Six Kings Slam in Saudi Arabia. He could well play […]
# Die Departement van Vervoer en Gemeenskapsveiligheid in Limpopo versoek motoriste om uiters versigtig te bestuur op die N1-suid naby Mokopane, waar swaar reën en hael gevaarlike padtoestande veroorsaak. Bestuurders word aangeraai om spoed te verminder en ‘n veilige volgafstand te handhaaf. Tidimalo Chuene van die departement sê verskeie voertuie het reeds afgetrek weens swak […]
# Russia and India stressed their commitment to a strategic partnership in bilateral security talks in Moscow. This follows US president Donald Trump’s announcement of higher tariffs on Indian imports because of its purchases of Russian oil. Indian national security adviser, Ajit Doval, says New Delhi was looking forward to a visit from president Vladimir Putin […]
# Russian president Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will meet in the coming days in the first encounter between leaders of the two countries since 2021. The announcement follows a day after Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, held talks with Putin with the aim to try and end the Ukrainian war. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says […]
# Rugby: Western Province made five changes to the side for tomorrow afternoon’s Currie Cup encounter against Griquas in Kimberley. Tristan Leyds starts at fullback in a rotation with Shilton van Wyk. Justin Geduld comes in at outside centre and Luke Burger is on the bench. Jurie Matthee makes his first appearance this season at […]
# US president Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on more than 90 countries have come into effect. He posted on his Truth Social platform that billions of dollars were now flowing into the US. Earlier, Trump hit India with a 50-percent tariff, which will take effect on 27 August unless the country stops buying Russian oil. […]
# For a third day in a row, firefighters battled to contain France’s biggest wildfire in nearly eight decades, which has burnt over 16-thousand hectares, killed one person and destroyed dozens of houses. Reuters reports plumes of smoke rising over the forest area in the region of Aude in southern France. Local authorities said one […]
# Tennis: Die Amerikaner Taylor Fritz het ʼn halfeindstryd teen sy landgenoot, Ben Shelton, bespreek op die Kanadese Ope in Toronto. Die tweede-gekeurde het Andrey Rublev van Rusland verslaan terwyl Shelton die Australiër Alex de Minaur geklop het. Die topgekeurde Alexander Zverev van Duitsland en die Rus Karen Khachanov speel in die ander halfeindstryd. In […]
# Die Carbon Trust verwag dat die aanvanklike koolstofbegrotings realisties moet wees. Die regering het verlede week koolstofbegroting- en -bekampingsregulasies gepubliseer. Maatskappye en individue wat oortree kan tronkstraf en swaar boetes verwag. Volgens die voorgestelde wetgewing moet alle maatskappye wat meer as 30-duisend ton kweekhuisgasse vrystel, jaarlikse teikens indien, asook ʼn nakomingsverslag en planne om […]
