# Eskom says it is accelerating the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects and supporting larger power-user customers in achieving their energy transition goals. This is through its newly formed Eskom Green division, which will have six gigawatts of carbon-free electricity available up to 2030. Some ten-billion-rand has been allocated to Eskom Green over the […]
# Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says the government is moving to improve access to justice for all through the rationalisation of the courts. Cabinet has approved a master plan to redraw court boundaries and establish new seats of justice where they are most needed. This forms part of efforts to ease […]
# Tennis: Twenty-three-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams claimed her first professional victory in nearly four years in the women’s doubles at Queen’s in London. The 44-year-old American and Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko defeated the third-seeded duo Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, 7-6, 6-2, to make the quarterfinals. The unseeded pair of Williams and Mboko […]
# The ANC Gauteng Provincial Task Team has picked Hassan Mako as its mayoral candidate for the Emfuleni Local Municipality, ahead of the local government elections in November. He is set to replace former mayor Sipho Radebe, who was fired by the party last week. The ANC says Mako brings with him extensive experience as […]
# The UK, Australia, Canada, France and Norway have imposed sanctions and other measures to hold networks involved in financing and enabling settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The coordinated sanctions are targeting six firms and one individual. According to the United Nations, one-thousand-835 attacks by settlers against Palestinians were recorded […]
# The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced the four-person crew for Artemis Three, which will test lunar landers for future missions to land on the moon. The astronauts, who will launch into space next year, are commander, Randy Bresnik, pilot Luca Parmitano, and mission specialists Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio. This comes two […]
# Gauteng Police Commissioner, Tommy Mthombeni, says a whole-of-government approach remains central to the future of policing in the province. The province’s fourth-quarter crime statistics for the 2025/2026 financial year show a 5.9-percent decline in contact crimes between January and March this year, with murder down 15-percent, rape down by 9.9-percent, and attempted murder down […]
# Rugby: Scotland’s South Africa-born Duhan van der Merwe, New Zealand legend, TJ Perenara, and England’s Kyle Sinckler have been named in the Barbarians squad to face the Springboks in Gqeberha next Saturday. Van der Merwe, who has scored 35 tries in 53 Tests for his adopted nation, will wear the famous jersey for the first […]
# President Donald Trump says the US must, of necessity, respond against Iran after it shot down an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday evening. The two soldiers on the Apache had been patrolling waters off the coast of Oman when the crash happened. They were safely rescued by a sea drone […]
