# Soccer: Banyana Banyana head coach, Desiree Ellis, has stressed the significance of winning their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Group B opener against Tanzania in Casablanca, Morocco, this evening. In their last meeting, the two countries played to a draw. Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso are also in the group. The four semifinalists will […]
# Die vakverbond SAFTU moedig president Cyril Ramaphosa en die nasionale direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Andy Mothibi, aan om die hoof van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie, Andrea Johnson, se bedanking te aanvaar. Sy het gevra om met onmiddellike ingang van haar pos onthef te word sonder om die normale kennistydperk van drie maande te werk. SAFTU-woordvoerder, […]
# German police have shot dead the suspect responsible for the “Islamist terror attack” at Berlin’s Pride celebrations. The man identified as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese heritage, drove a van into a crowd of people near Tiergarten Park before stabbing several people with a machete. One person died and at least […]
# The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration says operations at the Musina Temporary Repatriation Processing Centre in Limpopo will be scaled down from 20-thousand to one-thousand-500 capacity from the first of August. This follows a sustained decline in the number of undocumented foreign nationals requiring processing at the facility. More than 68-thousand foreign nationals have been processed for repatriation […]
# Cycling: Slovenian Tadej Pogačar has won a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title, confirming his status as one of the sport’s all-time greats. The 27-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider finished six-minutes-and-26-seconds ahead of Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel in the overall standings, with Mexican Isaac del Toro finishing third. The three-week Grand Tour’s final stage […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has secured a preservation order from the Special Tribunal to freeze two multimillion-rand properties linked to former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa Group CEO Lucky Montana. The preserved assets comprise a Hurlingham, Johannesburg property purchased for 13.5-million-rand and a Waterkloof, Pretoria property bought for 2.25-million-rand. The SIU’s spokesperson, Selby Makgotho, […]
# Acting Police minister, Firoz Cachalia says the police don’t have the primary responsibility for enforcing immigration laws; however, they continue to work with relevant departments to support law enforcement efforts. To date, law enforcement authorities have registered 354 cases of arrests and prosecutions against individuals who are in contravention of the law related to […]
# Commonwealth Games: South Africa’s Pieter Coetze stormed to another gold medal and another Games record, this time in the 200-metres, to add to his 50-metres heroics. He won in one-minute-54.22-seconds with England’s Oliver Morgan and Luke Greenbank coming in second and third, respectively. Aimee Canny won silver in the women’s 100-metres breaststroke and Olivia […]
# The DA says Investigating Directorate Against Corruption head, Andrea Johnson’s request to be released from her post with immediate effect comes at a time when serious questions have been raised through the Madlanga Commission’s proceedings. Johnson’s testimony came under scrutiny at the commission last week. The DA’s Glynnis Breytenbach says public confidence in institutions […]
