# The DA has filed papers before the Electoral Court for leave to intervene in the ANC’s attempt to field 181 candidates in six municipalities for the November local government elections. The ANC says it could not register the candidates before the 5 pm deadline on 28 August because of technical glitches in the IEC […]
# Cricket: Top-order batter Jordan Hermann impressed on his debut as South Africa cruised to a 99-run victory over Namibia on the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method in the first one-day match in Windhoek. Hermann scored 150 from 126 balls, equalling the record for the highest score on ODI debut, and shared a second-wicket partnership of 190 with […]
# ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says allegations of vote-buying at party conferences are unacceptable. Last month, senior ANC member and national executive committee member Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma accused secretary-general Fikile Mbalula and Ramaphosa of buying delegates to ensure that they won the 2022 elective conference. Speaking on the sidelines of a door-to-door campaign in Tembisa […]
# German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has accused the far-right Alternative for Germany party of advocating anti-migration policies that were tantamount to “ethnic cleansing”. He addressed Parliament following his party, the Christian Democratic Union’s bruising defeat in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where AfD won almost 44-percent of the vote. Merz says the AfD has harmed […]
# Die onderwysaktivis Hendrick Makaneta moedig jongmense aan om dit te oorweeg om vir die 2027-akademiese jaar aansoek te doen by kolleges vir Tegniese en Beroeps-onderwys en -opleiding. Aansoeke sluit op 30 September. Makaneta sê Suid-Afrikaners moet hul siening oor hierdie kolleges verander. Hy vra jongmense om kolleges as ‘n eerste keuse vir verdere studie […]
# Die adjunkminister in die Presidensie vir Vroue, Jeug en Persone met Gestremdhede, Mmapaseka Letsike, vra sterker streeksamewerking en gesamentlike optrede om geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord te beëindig. Bevindinge van die Raad op Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing toon dat 33,1-persent van vroue van 18 jaar en ouer tydens hul leeftyd fisieke geweld ervaar het. Letsike sê optrede teen […]
# Die Gautengse Gesondheidsdepartement moedig gemeenskappe aan om gebruik te maak van fisioterapie-dienste wat by staatsgeriewe beskikbaar is. Dis deel van pogings om gestremdheid te voorkom en genesing te verbeter. Die departement se woordvoerder, Steve Mabona, sê fisioterapie-dienste is beskikbaar vir persone wat herstel na beroerte, breuke, amputasies, operasies en ruggraat- en breinbeserings. Hy sê […]
# Die Nasionale Verbruikerskommissie sê Isuzu Motors Suid-Afrika het ‘n veiligheidsterugroep uitgereik vir twee-duisend-582 RG19-bakkies wat tussen 11 Mei en 3 Julie vanjaar in die mark beskikbaar gestel is. Volgens Isuzu is daar ‘n moontlikheid dat die rempedaal se spilpunt kan loskom. Die kommissie se woordvoerder, Phetho Ntaba, sê van die voertuie is ook uitgevoer […]
# Sokker: Die Australiese Wêreldbeker-speler Cristian Volpato is ‘n boete opgelê nadat hy positief getoets is vir kokaïen toe hy in Julie in Sydney vir ‘n spoedoortreding afgetrek is. Die polisie van Nieu-Suid-Wallis sê sy tweede monster het ook ‘n positiewe toets opgelewer. Die 22-jarige middelveldspeler is met agtduisend-300 rand beboet. Volpato het Italië op […]
