# Rugby: Haashim Pead scored two tries as the Junior Springboks defeated Argentina 36-25 in the opening round of the U20 Rugby Championship at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha. South Africa overturned a 20-15 half-time deficit to secure the win. Meanwhile, Sid Harvey converted a last-minute try as Australia held defending Champions New Zealand […]
# US National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, is reportedly set to leave his post in the coming days. In March, he inadvertently added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal group chat, where high-ranking officials discussed planned military strikes, including in Yemen. Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong, is also expected to leave his post. Waltz initially said […]
# Forty-four foreign nationals, who are suspected of being part of a human trafficking operation, were rescued from a house in Parkmore, Johannesburg, on Thursday. The group was found by private security guards, patrolling the area after complaints about a suspicious noise coming from the residence. Police spokesperson, Mavela Masondo, says the 44 are believed […]
# DA leader John Steenhuisen says there is hope for economic growth and job creation in South Africa today because the course and path of the country changed fundamentally in last year’s election. The country’s youth unemployment is at 44.6-percent, up from 43.2-percent in the previous quarter. Steenhuisen says the government must cut down the […]
# Public Service and Administration minister Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi says the public service wage bill is not the sole challenge to the country’s health fiscus. The public sector wage bill is currently about 724-billion-rand. The minister says the wage bill has declined as a share of consolidated spending from 35.7-percent in 2013/2014 to 32.1-percent in […]
# Police have confirmed that the white VW Polo retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion belonged to the three Free State police officers who died earlier this week. Constables Cebekhulu Linda, Keamogetswe Buys and Boipelo Senoge went missing after travelling from Bloemfontein to their deployment area in Limpopo last week. Their bodies were retrieved […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the now resolved budget impasse is not a cause for Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to be removed. There have been calls for the minister to be fired over the budget impasse that will now see him tabling the budget for the third time on May 21st, an unprecedented move since […]
# Drie Chinese ruimtevaarders het vandag na ses maande op die land se Tiangong-ruimtestasie na die Aarde teruggekeer, terwyl Beijing vorder met sy doelwit om ‘n groot ruimtemoondheid te word. China het die afgelope paar jaar miljarde rande in sy ruimteprogram belê in ‘n poging om te verwesenlik wat president Xi Jinping as die land […]
# Lede van die parlementêre staande komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge het kommer uitgespreek oor watter optrede teen die Padongelukkefonds ingestel moet word. Dit volg na ʼn voorlegging deur die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid wat onregmatige en wanbesteding van staatsfondse by die instelling uitgelig het. Die Ondersoekeenheid se bevindings het sommige LP’s ontstel en een beskryf die inhoud […]
