# Motorsport: Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says the potential of becoming the first black Ferrari Formula One driver to win a home race for the team would be phenomenal. The Briton’s hopes of victory in the Italian Grand Prix this weekend should be boosted by the arrival of Ferrari’s second engine upgrade of the […]
# Die Gautengse Departement van Menslike Nedersettings sê die DA se verklaring oor die onwettige besetting van behuisingsprojekte is misleidend. Die party beskuldig die departement dat hy versuim om behuisingsprojekte te beskerm en sê 14 is die afgelope vyf jaar onwettig beset – onder meer Eagle Nest, Western Mega Project en Danville. Woordvoerder Tahir Sema […]
# Tennis: Australian Nick Kyrgios has accepted and served a reduced, one-month ban after testing positive for cocaine. The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended early last month after a sample he submitted during the Mallorca Open in Spain in June was found to contain a metabolite of cocaine. Kyrgios admitted to using cocaine at a nightclub. […]
# A 44-year-old member of the Mpumalanga Police Flying Squad has been arrested during an early-morning operation at the Secunda Police Station today. He is allegedly linked to the hijacking of diesel trucks in the province. Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Mavela Masondo, says the involvement of the officer came to light during the investigation following the […]
# Tennis: Frenchman Gael Monfils played the final match of his Grand Slam career, falling to American Learner Tien, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 in the US Open second round. Russia’s Karen Khachanov knocked out world number four Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. In the women’s draw, second seed Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina continued her bid for the world number […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu is bekommerd oor die inentingskrisis van kinders, wat die Gesondheidsdepartement tot openbare gesondheids-noodtoestand verklaar het. Die hoeveelheid kinders onder een wat nie ingeënt is nie, het gestyg van 12,1-persent in 2017 tot 36,3-persent vroeër vanjaar, wat een uit elke drie babas weerloos laat. Woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê dit keer die groot […]
# Rescuers have pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal, more than a week after they became trapped by the devastating flash flood at the Nepal-China border. They were recovered from a tunnel of the Trishuli-3 Hydropower Project. Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan have injuries to their hands and legs. At least 39 others […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum vra president Cyril Ramaphosa om meer fondse beskikbaar te stel en die werksaamhede van die Madlanga-kommissie te verleng. Honderd-47-miljoen-rand is aanvanklik begroot, waarvan 123-miljoen-rand reeds bestee is terwyl bykomende befondsing gesoek word. Woordvoerder Dennis Bloem sê Ramaphosa kan nie vir Suid-Afrikaners vertel daar is nie geld nie terwyl 700-miljoen-rand beskikbaar […]
# Die organisasie, Mining Affected Communities United in Action, vra ʼn onmiddellike ondersoek nadat twee jong seuns in ʼn dam van die Harmony Goudmyn naby die Nyakallong-township in die Vrystaat verdrink het. Volgens berigte het die twee seuns van agt- en nege-jaar verlede maand in ʼn verlate, onomheinde dam by die Harmony Goudmyn gaan swem […]
