# Tennis: Defending champion Coco Gauff and world number one Aryna Sabalenka are through to the French Open third round. American Gauff eased past Egypt’s Mayar Sherif, 6-3, 6-2, while Sabalenka of Belarus beat France’s Elsa Jacquemot, 7-5, 6-2. Sixth-seeded American Amanda Anisimova also advanced to the third round after Austrian Julia Grabher retired after losing […]
# The National Assembly’s Impeachment Committee, established to investigate alleged misconduct by president Cyril Ramaphosa, will sit for its first meeting on Monday. During the meeting, the chairperson of the committee will be elected. The Constitutional Court ruled earlier this month that the 2022 vote by Parliament not to proceed with an impeachment inquiry following recommendations […]
# Johannesburg mayor, Dada Morero, has welcomed the Gauteng High Court ruling against the owners of Marble Towers. The court ruled that the structures inside Marble Towers, where hawkers have been trading, are unlawful and were erected without building plans. The owners, Goldenrod Group, were found to have failed to obtain approved building plans from […]
# Organisers of the Conference of the Left have dismissed suggestions that they are forming a political party, but rather creating a framework to coordinate and strengthen their work through a common platform and programme. The South African Communist Party-sponsored gathering will take place in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, today and tomorrow. Fourteen political parties, […]
# US vice president JD Vance says Washington and Iran have made good progress on reaching an agreement, but there are still several sticking points. The deal would reportedly extend the ceasefire for 60 days, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and launch talks on the future of Tehran’s nuclear programme. Meanwhile, both Iran and the […]
# Rugby: Junior Springbok coach Kevin Foote has named a reshuffled match-day squad for their final Under-20 International Series encounter against Georgia in Stellenbosch tomorrow. Captain Riley Norton is back after missing the opening match against Chile because of his involvement at the Springbok alignment camp. Vusi Moyo will start his third consecutive game at flyhalf, […]
# The MK Party says it is assessing the full circumstances surrounding the allegations and subsequent charges against its chief whip, Mmabatho Mokoena Zondi. She appeared in the Cape Magistrate’s Court on charges of fraud yesterday and was released on 30-thousand-rand bail. It is alleged that Mokoena-Zondi recruited four individuals as researchers for the party. […]
# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner suffered a shock second-round defeat at the French Open after struggling physically in sweltering conditions. The Italian was just a game from victory at 5-1 in the third set, when he started cramping and feeling dizzy, which required a medical timeout. After dropping the third set, Sinner failed […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is no longer just a regional power, but a global one. He was speaking at a conference in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu says that with Israel controlling 60-percent of the Gaza Strip, he has instructed the military to expand and take over 70-percent of the […]
