# Transport Minister Barbara Creecy says passenger numbers in Cape Town reached 53-thousand people a day in April last year. She says with the reopening of Philippi and Nolungile stations, this number has now almost doubled to 104-thousand passenger trips a day. With the targeted completion of the Kapteinsklip’s second line towards the end of […]
# Israel is blocking all but a trickle of humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, says the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, with almost no ready-to-eat food entering what its spokesperson described as the hungriest place on earth. Spokesperson Jens Laerke said only 600 of 900 aid trucks had been authorised to […]
# The International Air Transport Association, IATA, has reported total global air passenger traffic grew strongly in April, in year-on-year terms. Total demand increased by eight percent, with international demand up 10.8-perccent and domestic demand rising by 3.3-percent. The region which saw the strongest growth in total passenger traffic was Africa, at 14.2-percent. It was […]
# Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland, has sparked warnings that further evacuations may be needed amid the risk of flooding in the Alpine valley. A deluge of millions of cubic meters of ice, mud and rock crashed down a […]
# Sokker: Chelsea se afrigter, Enzo Maresca sê hy hoop hul oorwinning in die UEFA-Konferensieliga kan die begin wees van ‘n nuwe era van sukses. Die span het agtergeloop voordat hulle Real Betis 4-1 geklop het in Breslau, Pole, en sy eerste trofee sedert 2022 verower het. Chelsea is ook die eerste span wat al […]
# Motorsport: Die Italiaanse motorfietsrenjaer, Luca Marini, sal moontlik volgende week se MotoGP-wedren in Aragon, Spanje, misloop nadat hy tydens toetse in Japan geval het. Die bestuurder van Honda Factory Racing het veelvuldige beserings opgedoen, onder meer ʼn ontwrigte heup, talle beenbreuke en ʼn long wat platgeval het. Honda sê Marin sal in ‘n Japanse […]
# Rugby: While the Sharks have secured the European Challenge Cup, they have not had much success when it comes to the United Rugby Championships. Last season, they concluded the campaign in 14th spot on the log. The Durban-based side is preparing for a quarterfinal clash against Irish side Munster at Kings Park in Durban […]
# Die Withuis het gereageer op ‘n hofuitspraak wat president Donald Trump se omvattende wêreldwye tariewe keer en sê onverkose regters kan nie ‘n nasionale noodsituasie behoorlik hanteer nie. Die Internasionale Handelshof in Manhattan het beslis die Internasionale Noodwet op Ekonomiese Magte van 1977, waarop Trump hom beroep het, verleen nié aan die president eensydige […]
# ‘n Maatskaplike entrepreneur van Kenia, Kennedy Odede, en ‘n Kanadese inheemse maatskaplike werker, Brenda Reynolds, is die wenners van 2025 se Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela-prys. Die Verenigde Nasies het die prys in 2014 ingestel en ken dit elke vyf jaar toe aan twee mense wie se werk Mandela se nalatenskap van leierskap, nederigheid, diens en […]
