# Die polisie het verlede week 14-duisend-274 verdagtes in hegtenis geneem vir ernstige en ander misdade tydens landwye verskerpte Shanela-operasies. Nog een-duisend-854 gesoekte verdagtes is in hegtenis geneem. Altesaam 369 ongelisensieerde drankverkoopspunte is gesluit, met 216 daarvan in KwaZulu-Natal. Polisiewoordvoerder Amanda van Wyk sê 148 onwettige vuurwapens en een-duisend-706 rondtes ammunisie is tydens die operasies […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Kerke sê die onlangse massaskietvoorvalle in die land is nie meer net ʼn reeks geïsoleerde tragedies nie, maar ʼn nasionale krisis. Agtien mense is die naweek by ʼn taverne in Wedela, Gauteng, doodgeskiet, en tien mense is by ʼn vermaaklikheidsplek in Lwandle, Kaapstad, dood. Verlede week in KwaMakhutha, KwaZulu-Natal, is […]
# Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering an increase in the size of the army, while also instructing that funds be allocated to the Ministry of Defence to carry out the order. The expansion, which follows a similar increase ordered in August, will put the size of the armed forces at over […]
# Die polisie in Gauteng sê ‘n man wat verdink word van die moord op ‘n 23-jarige vrou gisteroggend in Tembisa, is dood aangetref in sy voertuig in Midrand. Boitumelo Gift Mashita is tydens ‘n beweerde rooftog doodgeskiet, terwyl sy op pad werk toe was. Polisiewoordvoerder Brenda Muridili sê die man is Mashita se vervreemde […]
# Soccer: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has indicated that he is prepared to support substantial increases in funding for the world governing body’s 211 members. This follows a joint request from UEFA and CONCACAF for at least 164-million-rand per association during the 2027–2030 cycle from FIFA’s cash reserves. Infantino has faced criticism over his aborted […]
# Motorsport: Reigning Formula One world champion Lando Norris has apologised to Franco Colapinto for comments he made after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Colapinto caused an accident at the Baku City Circuit on Saturday, taking out his Alpine teammate Pierre Gasly and Norris’s McLaren. Speaking after the incident, Norris stated that there are “some drivers […]
# South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago warns that a major cyberattack could spark the next global financial crisis. He delivered a keynote address at the 3rd Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection Forum on Africa and geopolitics in Johannesburg yesterday. Kganyago stated that the worsening global disorder, driven by geopolitics, climate shocks, artificial intelligence […]
# Sudan’s Foreign minister Mohieldin Salim Ahmed Ibrahim has condemned foreign intervention in the country, saying it only deepens the decade-long conflict. Sudan has been engulfed in a war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, killing tens of thousands of people and triggering one of the world’s largest displacement crises. Ibrahim told […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee has filed its responding affidavit opposing the legal challenge by the EFF and the African Legal Professionals Association over the committee’s decision to rescind its recommendation of advocate Thandazani Madonsela as evidence leader. Last month, the EFF and African Legal Professionals Association filed separate applications in the Western Cape High Court […]
