# The US military carried out new strikes in Iran on Wednesday, targeting a site around the Strait of Hormuz. Officials believe the site posed a threat to US forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait, which normally transports a fifth of the world’s oil. Multiple Iranian drones were also reportedly shot down and […]
# Tennis: Twenty-four time major champion, Novak Djokovic, is through to the third round of the French Open, after seeing off Frenchman Valentin Royer, 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3. The Serbian will next face Brazil’s Joao Fonseca, who defeated Croatian Dino Prizmic, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. Germany’s Alexander Zverev eased past Czech Tomas Machac, 6-4, […]
# The Border Management Authority says of the 300 Ghanaians who took up their government’s offer of repatriation, 295 were found eligible to depart South Africa on a chartered flight from OR Tambo International Airport yesterday. This follows a wave of protests against illegal immigration, sparking fear of a resurgence of xenophobic violence. BMA’s Mmemme […]
# Soccer: Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has announced 26 players who will represent South Africa at the upcoming World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico. The squad contains three goalkeepers headed by captain Ronwen Williams, eleven defenders, including uncapped 22-year-old Olwethu Makhanya, four midfielders, and eight strikers. Other players who have made the […]
# The South African Communist Party has criticised the ANC, after the governing party refused to participate in the upcoming Conference of the Left. The conference, themed “Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power”, will be attended by various leftist political parties and unions. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula accused the initiative of being a […]
# Human Settlements minister, Thembi Simelane, has acknowledged that housing delivery remains below target, revealing that only 23-thousand-and-27 housing units were delivered against a target of 37-thousand-779 during the previous financial year. She tabled a 26.972-billion-rand budget allocation for the 2026/2027 financial year. Simelane says the department will take decisive action against underperforming contractors and officials […]
# US president Donald Trump has suggested that there is still hope for a deal with Iran, but warned that Tehran’s efforts to outlast him won’t work. According to a report, the memorandum of understanding being negotiated calls for American military forces to withdraw from Tehran’s vicinity and the lifting of the blockade of Iranian […]
# The World Health Organisation warns that the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo now faces a catastrophic collision of disease and conflict, with the Ebola outbreak in Ituri province outpacing the response. There have been 223 suspected deaths in the DRC and Uganda. Ituri has been under military rule since 2021, while the outbreak has […]
# The Electoral Commission says unfounded attacks on the integrity of electoral processes do not merely damage individual or institutional reputations; they inflict lasting injury on the country’s constitutional fabric. The total number of registered voters currently stands at 27.9 million South Africans, ahead of the November local government elections. IEC chairperson, Mosotho Moepya, says […]
