# Rugby: Springbok legend Victor Matfield insists that the rejuvenated All Blacks will be tested by the Boks’ aggressive defence in the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series next month. Under new coach Dave Rennie, New Zealand has scored at least five tries in each of their three Nations Championship wins against France, Italy and Ireland. Matfield says the […]
# Die burgerlike beweging, Soil of Africa, verwelkom die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, se besluit om ʼn omvattende ondersoek te doen na die staat se ses-duisend-238 residensiële eiendomme. Die eiendomme is aan verskeie departemente toegeken en word landwyd deur staatsamptenare bewoon – die meeste in KwaZulu-Natal. Soil of Africa se woordvoerder, […]
# US president Donald Trump has threatened to strike a complex known as Pickaxe Mountain, which is believed to be an underground nuclear site where Iran is suspected of building an undeclared enrichment facility. It was declared to the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in 2020 as a future facility to assemble the centrifuges […]
# Die vakverbond Saftu sê hy verwerp die regering se besluit om ʼn Ontwikkelingsbeleid-lening van 24,78-miljard-rand van die Wêreldbank te aanvaar. Die lening is veronderstel om vertragings met infrastruktuurprojekte te verlig wat bygedra het tot ʼn dekade van swak ekonomiese groei. Saftu se hoofsekretaris, Zwelinzima Vavi, sê die lening is deel van ʼn groter program […]
# Die Gautengse Gesondheidsdepartement veroordeel wat hy noem ʼn roekelose en misleidende mediaverklaring wat die DA uitgereik het. Die party beweer pasiënte by die Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Akademiese Hospitaal ontvang weens tekorte nie noodsaaklike medisyne nie. Die departement se woordvoerder, Steve Mabona, sê hospitaalbestuur het met Madeleine Hicklin van die DA vergader en vasgestel haar […]
# Die toesighoudende regter in die kantoor van die Onafhanklike Direktoraat Teen Korrupsie sê hy het formele klagtes ontvang teen die hoof van die direktoraat teen korrupsie, Andrea Johnson. Sy staar ernstige beskuldigings in die gesig, onder meer dat sy die inhoud van ‘n stragregtelike aanklag uitgelek het aan ‘n beskuldigde, die senior Misdaadintelligensie-beampte, Feroz […]
# Tennis: Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and Wimbledon champion Jannik Sinner lead the US Open women’s and men’s singles main-draw entry list, respectively. Joining Sabalenka are Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina, 2023 US Open winner Coco Gauff and Roland Garros victor Mirra Andreeva. Meanwhile, defending men’s singles champion Carlos Alcaraz, who has missed the last […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the country’s commander-in-chief, General Oleksandr Syrskyi. This comes days after he removed popular Defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, which sparked six days of nationwide protests. Zelensky thanked Syrskyi and credited him with leading the defence of Kyiv and launching a counter-invasion of Russia’s Kursk province in 2024. Syrskyi’s replacement […]
# Gauteng MEC for Education, Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Lebogang Maile, has reiterated that the provincial government maintains a zero-tolerance approach to sexual abuse, gender-based violence and all forms of violence against children. This follows the alleged sexual abuse of a learner by an educator at Karabo Primary School in Soweto. The accused remains […]
