# eThekwini mayor, Cyril Xaba, says the municipality has maintained a strong financial position and experts are increasingly confident that its finances will remain stable. In May, the council officially adopted the metro’s 2026-2027 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework, with a total budget of 75.3-billion-rand. This is aimed at accelerating service delivery, infrastructure renewal, and […]
# Motorsport: McLaren’s Lando Norris won the Hungarian Grand Prix, his first victory of the season. The Briton, who started on pole, lost out to his teammate Oscar Piastri in the opening lap but retook the lead after the second round of pit stops. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli finished second and […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, says South Africa supports engagement on migration at the highest level of the African Union, provided the discussions focus on orderly, regular and legal migration, as envisaged by existing continental frameworks. Two Ghanaians have petitioned the International Criminal Court to investigate repeated xenophobic attacks in South […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says government has made significant progress in processing undocumented foreign nationals since migration pressures intensified in June. The Border Management Authority has processed 72-thousand-906 repatriations through all ports of entry between 7 June and 14 July. The majority of nationals processed at the Musina Temporary Repatriation Processing Centre […]
# German Interior minister, Alexander Donbrindt has described the incident in which an attacker drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s largest LGBTQ+ event as an Islamist terror attack. One woman died, and at least 29 were injured in the Tiergarten Park. Donbrindt says the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, then attacked people with […]
# Rugby: The Boland Kavaliers scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to claim a 41-3 bonus-point win over the error-riddled Stormers-23 in the Currie Cup in Wellington. Winger Jayden Bantom was the star of the show, as he scored three tries and slotted five kicks to amass 26 individual points, helping Boland to […]
# Wetenskaplikes in Frankryk het die boustene van die merkwaardige verskeidenheid voëlsang ontdek, wat een van die mees verfynde vorms van klank-kommunikasie in die natuur is. ‘n Navorsingspan het meer as 100-duisend klanke van drie-duisend voëlspesies ontleed en bevind almal bestaan uit agt basiese klankpatrone. ‘n Belangrike bevinding is die omgewing waarin voëls ontwikkel, vanaf […]
# Die Filippynse Kuswag beskuldig sy Chinese ampsgenoot dat hy weer waterkanonne afgevuur het op regeringskepe, die derde voorval tussen die twee lande in die Suid-Chinese See hierdie week. ‘n Chinese vaartuig het tot binne sewe meter van ‘n Filippynse vissersboot beweeg in die Scarborough-rif in die Filippyne se eksklusiewe ekonomiese sone, wat ‘n ernstige […]
# Soil of Africa vra die regering om praktiese maatreëls in te stel om kwesbare huishoudings te beskerm teen stygende lewenskoste. Dit volg nadat verbruikersinflasie verlede maand op ‘n jaargrondslag tot vyf-persent gestyg het teenoor 4,5-persent in Mei, die hoogste vlak in twee jaar. Woordvoerder Luzuko Sofute sê die skerp styging in vervoerkoste, aangevuur deur […]
