# Alliance of Citizens for Change veroordeel die moord op die voormalige ANC-raadslid en burgemeester van Knysna, Ndoda Aubrey Tsengwa. Volgens ʼn voorlopige ondersoek was die 48-jarige raadslid Woensdagaand op pad huis toe saam met drie ander toe ʼn onbekende aanvaller op hulle voertuig losgebrand het voordat hy te voet in die Joodsekamp-area gevlug het. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over the ongoing crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. Last week, the High Court in Pretoria suspended the appointment of professor Hlengani Mathebula as administrator and restored the scheme’s remaining board members. This comes after minister Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela dissolved the board and […]
# Die GOOD-party sê AfriForum en die MK-party het niks behalwe ʼn voorkeur vir litigasie oor regeringsbeleide in gemeen gehad nie, tot die teen-immigrantegroep, March and March, met albei vriende gemaak het. AfriForum en March and March het ooreengekom om saam te werk wat regskwessies betref, ten spyte van aansienlike verskille tussen die twee drukgroepe. […]
# At least 50 people, including 40 children, have died after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwest Sokoto state yesterday. The boat was believed to be carrying more than 70 people. According to reports, the boat had been carrying farm owners and labourers hired to harvest rice. Sixteen people have been rescued. The National […]
# Golf: World number two Rory McIlroy bounced back from a disappointing display at last week’s FedEx St Jude Championship with a fine opening-round six-under-par 64 at the BMW Championship in Missouri. The Northern Irishman shares the lead with American quartet Gary Woodland, Wyndham Clark, JJ Spaun and Chris Gotterup. World number one and defending […]
# The Western Cape High Court will today hear an urgent application by the MK Party and United Africans Transformation for leave to appeal the interim interdict ordering Parliament’s Impeachment Committee to halt its hearings. It follows the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of an earlier appeal by the African Transformation Movement and other parties. The interdict […]
# Minister of Public Works Dean Macpherson says stronger accountability must be part of a wider effort to reduce construction deaths, alongside better municipal enforcement, professional oversight, and information sharing between regulators. He released findings into four recent building and structural incidents in Redcliffe in Verulam, eThekwini; Doornkop in Soweto; Ormonde in Johannesburg; and the Magnolia […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, who has not played competitively in four months, will make his return at the US Open. The 23-year-old Spaniard injured his right wrist at the Barcelona Open in April, resulting in him missing the defence of his French Open title and Wimbledon. Alcaraz was due to return at the Cincinnati Open […]
# The leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Norway and the Netherlands have condemned as “unacceptable” the Israeli government’s decision to publish tenders to build a settlement that could kill off any two-state solution. The E1 settlement project would cut the occupied West Bank off from East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider the capital of their […]
