# Olympics: Four world-class cities will host the Olympic Q-Series, formerly the Olympic Qualifier Series, in an expanded format leading up to the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The International Olympic Committee has confirmed Tokyo in Japan, Shanghai in China, Montreal in Canada and US city Orlando will each host one stop of the series between […]
# Indonesian authorities are working to rescue 20 hikers after a volcanic eruption of Mount Dukono on Halmahera Island. Nine of the hikers are Singaporean, and the rest are Indonesians. Three people, two foreign nationals and a resident from Ternate, have died. The country’s volcanology agency says the hikers are in an area that had […]
# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner says players are not getting the respect they deserve from the organisers of the four Grand Slam events. The women’s world number one, Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, recently stated players will at some point boycott one of the majors if they aren’t given a higher percentage of the […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens het ʼn waarskuwing uitgereik oor gure weer wat van Sondag tot Dinsdag in die Wes-Kaap sal voorkom. In dele van die provinsie het swaar reën hierdie week reeds erge oorstromings veroorsaak. Mense moes ontruim en in Knysna is ʼn vrou dood. Ramp-risikobestuur se woordvoerder, Sonica Lategan, sê die kouefronte sal ontwrigtende […]
# Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy says they are working with the Health Department to track and monitor possible hantavirus cases in South Africa. This follows the death of three people linked to the Dutch MV Hondius cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, including a passenger who collapsed at OR Tambo International. The Health Department is monitoring […]
# Limpopo se Departement van Vervoer en Gemeenskapsveiligheid sê die N1 by Witvlag is weer oop vir verkeer ná ʼn ernstige ongeluk waarby ʼn bus uit Malawi betrokke was. Volgens die voorlopige ondersoek was die bus met 61 passasiers aan boord op pad van Malawi na Gauteng toe ʼn meganiese probleem die ongeluk veroorsaak het. […]
# US president Donald Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on the European Union if it fails to drop its levies on America to zero by July 4th. The 27-member EU bloc and the US struck a deal last July, setting tariffs on most European goods at 15-percent. Trump has, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the […]
# Die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen, het die nuutaangestelde lede van die Varsprodukte-uitvoerbeheerraad verwelkom. Dit is ‘n onafhanklike diensverskaffer van kwaliteitsertifisering en verkoelingsketting-bestuurdienste vir produsente en uitvoerders van bederfbare produkte. Die woordvoerder van die departement, Joylene van Wyk, sê die wêreld se handelslandskap verander en rol van die beheerraad vir onafhanklike en internasionaal erkende […]
# Die MK-party se vroueliga sê hulle is bekommerd oor die bewerings teen die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Sisisi Tolashe, oor die slegte handeling en finansiële uitbuiting van ʼn huiswerker. ʼn Vrou wat by die departement as voedsel-assistent aangestel is, is volgens berigte gedwing om huiswerk te verrig en die helfte van haar salaris aan […]
