# Tennis: Two-time Grand Slam champion Elena Rybakina has clinched the world number one ranking after making the US Open semifinals. The Kazakhstani defeated Chinese qualifier Zheng Qinwen, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, and will replace Aryna Sabalenka as world number one on Monday. Rybakina will face American Coco Gauff, who beat Russia’s Mirra Andreeva. In the men’s […]
# Airports Company South Africa says it is pursuing a strategy underpinned by four pillars: expansion, modernisation, competitiveness, and global positioning. The company reported a strong performance for the 2025/2026 financial year, with a 98-percent passenger recovery compared with pre-Covid-19 levels and an 8.5-percent increase in passenger traffic year-on-year. ACSA acting CEO Charles Shilowa says […]
# Deputy National Commissioner for Policing, Tebello Mosikili, says police are intensifying their fight against organised drug networks deliberately targeting properties being used to conceal illicit operations. Two foreign nationals were arrested yesterday following the discovery of a mandrax drug laboratory in Erasmia, west of Pretoria. Approximately 800-thousand mandrax tablets were being manufactured daily in […]
# The Impeachment Committee has voted to oppose the EFF’s Western Cape High Court challenge to its decision to rescind the recommendation of advocate Thandazani Madonsela as evidence leader. The African Legal Professionals Association has also launched a similar legal challenge. Nineteen committee members voted in favour of opposing the legal challenges, while nine voted […]
# Soccer: Paris St-Germain got their Champions League title defence off to a winning start, thrashing Slovan Bratislava 6-1. Spanish World Cup winner Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick as PSG aim to win the competition for a third consecutive time. Martin Ødegaard’s 75th-minute strike earned last season’s runners-up Arsenal a hard-fought 1-0 win against Napoli. […]
# At least five people are dead, and 87 people are missing after a fire broke out on a ferry in the Philippines. The MV June Aster had set off from the Port of Manila with 134 passengers and crew members and was travelling south towards Coron in the tourist province of Palawan when it caught […]
# The ANC has reportedly hired a forensic auditor to investigate the alleged tampering of the party’s Eastern Cape candidate lists. According to News24, there are allegations of tampering with lists and irregularities in the councillor selection process in municipalities including Nelson Mandela Bay, Alfred Nzo and Buffalo City. Forensic auditor Mahier Tayob has been […]
# British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has rejected the suggestion that British Jews are at risk following the sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Britain has imposed a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of committing ethnic cleansing. British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis believes the sanctions will […]
# Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile says his department is stepping up efforts to confront crime, substance abuse, gangsterism and the possession of dangerous weapons in schools. He joined law enforcement officers in searches yesterday at four schools: Phandimfundo Secondary School, Lekamoso Secondary School in Etwatwa, Rivoni Secondary School and Hulwazi Secondary School in Daveyton. […]
