# President Cyril Ramaphosa says legendary actress, model and fashion icon, Cynthia Shange’s life has been a personal triumph and a source of national inspiration and admiration. She passed away at the age of 76 in the early hours of yesterday morning at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital. Shange was the first black woman to represent South […]
# Motorsport: Formula One governing body, the FIA, says several tweaks to the regulations have been agreed to ahead of the Miami Grand Prix next month. This is to appease driver concerns over their safety and certain elements of competition. Some of the changes include energy harvesting and deployment limits for qualifying, power deployment limits in […]
# UK prime minister Keir Starmer says he would not have appointed Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the US, had he known he had failed vetting checks. The 72-year-old is alleged to have passed on market-sensitive government information to the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, while he was the Business Secretary from 2008 to […]
# Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says his country maintains deep historical mistrust of the US government. The two-week ceasefire between Tehran and America ends tomorrow, with an unlikely possibility that it will be extended. Pezeshkian criticised what he called unconstructive and contradictory signals from American officials, adding that honouring commitments is the basis of meaningful […]
# ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, says members of the South African Communist Party will be given ten days to respond on whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or for their party. The SACP has resolved to contest the local government elections independently, outside of the Tripartite Alliance. Mbalula says there will be […]
# Die Cape Independence Advocacy Group sê ná sy klagte aan die Advertensiereguleringsraad, het die Stad Kaapstad hul openbare verklaring oor laer tariewe wat sou volg, verwyder. Phil Craig van CIAG sê volgens die metro se eie syfers sou waardasies met gemiddeld 17,1-persent styg, terwyl die tariefkoers met 10,2-persent verminder is. Hy sê die metro […]
# Die DA in Gauteng beskuldig premier Panyaza Lesufi dat hy nie sy breëbandbeloftes vir township-skole nagekom het nie. Die Departement van e-Regering se derdekwartaal-verslag vir die 2025/2026-boekjaar, waarin die Gautengse Breëbandnetwerk ingestel moes word, toon hy het nie sy teiken bereik om 40 plekke van netwerktoegang te voorsien nie. Die DA-lid, Michael Waters, sê […]
# Andrew Whitfield and Glynnis Breytenbach are reportedly potential frontrunners to become the DA’s parliamentary caucus leader. Newly-elected party leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has decided to remain Cape Town’s mayor. The DA didn’t have to elect a separate parliamentary leader since Helen Zille was party leader and served as the Mother City’s mayor and then Western […]
# Tennis: Die wêreld-nommer-een, Jannik Sinner van Italië, gaan deelneem aan dié week se Madridse Ope in Spanje waar hy gaan probeer om geskiedenis te maak as die eerste speler om vyf agtereenvolgende Meesters-een-duisend-titels te beklink. Dit volg op sy oorwinnings in Parys verlede jaar en Indian Wells, Miami en Monte-Carlo vanjaar. Sinner is die […]
