# Soccer: Golden Arrows and Sekhukhune United have booked a place in the MTN8 semifinals. Arrows claimed a hard-fought 1-0 victory over 15-time champions Kaizer Chiefs at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Sunday. Sekhukhune defeated AmaZulu 4-3 in extra time at the Chatsworth Stadium in Durban, putting them into the final four of the MTN8 for […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the November local government elections afford women the opportunity to decide who should represent them. Women make up the majority of South Africa’s population. The FF Plus says the country’s everyday reality is marred by crime, poor service delivery, unsafe schools, and water and electricity problems. It says politics […]
# The ANC Women’s League has called for discretionary funding to be made available for the implementation of the declaration of gender-based violence and femicide as a disaster. President Cyril Ramaphosa classified GBVF as a national disaster last year. He has also appointed members to the new National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. ANCWL […]
# Western Cape police are offering rewards of up to 100-thousand-rand for information related to two of the three separate mass shootings which claimed eleven lives in Cape Town over the weekend. Five people were shot and killed in Langa while three others were shot and killed in the Barcelona informal settlement in Gugulethu. Three […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says much work remains to be done, particularly in addressing gender-based violence and femicide, which government has classified as a national disaster. The United Nations Women puts the rate at which South African women are killed at five times the global average. He led the commemorating of the 70th anniversary of […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the freedom of women is indivisible, as no culture, religion, government or ideology can justify reducing women to lesser human beings. He delivered the keynote address at the National Women’s Day commemoration event at the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday. Ramaphosa says since the advent of democracy, South Africa has […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a 15-point Gaza peace plan proposed by US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. The plan includes the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, which Trump last week called a monumental step toward lasting peace and security. Netanyahu says the Israeli military […]
# Rugby: Luke Jacobson will captain the All Blacks for the first time for their clash against the Sharks in Durban on Wednesday. Seven players from the New Zealand team that beat the Stormers 38-21 have again been named in the 23 for this second match of the tour. Bradley Slater, who joined the squad […]
# Rugby: A late try from Faf de Klerk helped the Cheetahs claim a 31-26 victory over the Stormers-23 in their Currie Cup clash at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. The visitors outscored the Capetonians by five tries to four. The win lifts the Cheetahs to second on the log, level on points […]