# Die Gautengse Departement van Gemeenskapsveiligheid vra openbare vervoer- en leerdervervoer-operateurs om versigtig te wees en verantwoordelik te bestuur, aangesien skole vandag vir die laaste kwartaal van die akademiese jaar heropen. Sello Maremane van die departement sê nie-nakoming van verkeerswette en onveilige vervoerpraktyke nie geduld sal word waar dit die lewens van leerlinge en ander […]
# The Judicial Service Commission has resolved to recommend to president Cyril Ramaphosa that he appoint Judges Gerald Bloem, Mmathebe Phatshoane and Esther Steyn to fill three vacancies in the Supreme Court of Appeal. During his interview yesterday, Bloem was quizzed about his ruling that ultimately banned Shell from oil and gas exploration off the Wild […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens sê die tugverhoor van die geskorste nasionale adjunk-polisiekommissaris, Shadrack Sibiya, is gister gehou, ten spyte van berigte dat dit gestaak is. Hy word na aanleiding van inligting by die Madlanga-kommissie beskuldig van korrupsie en wangedrag. Sibiya bly in aanhouding oor afsonderlike bewerings van verkragting en seksuele gereedmaking. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Athlenda Mathe, […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ease restrictions on the use of a tax-exempt variety of diesel, aimed at bringing down near-record diesel prices. According to the White House, the order will temporarily allow off-road ‘dyed’ diesel for highway use and defer the applicable Federal excise tax. Diesel prices skyrocketed […]
# Tennis: World number four Coco Gauff says she suffered racial abuse on social media following an incident in her win over Sun Xinran at the China Open. The American was serving 4-5 in the first set when Sun thought she had hit a winner, but Gauff stopped play over a flickering light in the side […]
# The ANC is calling on National Treasury to consider reducing fuel and Road Accident Fund levies to help cushion South Africans from the impact of record fuel price increases. Petrol prices will go up between three-rand-12-cents and three-rand-33-cents per litre from tomorrow; diesel prices by between two-rand-84-cents and three-rand-24-cents a litre, while illuminating paraffin […]
# Bestselling author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. He enjoyed a successful career as a novelist, selling over 300 million copies worldwide, including the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Archer’s political career started in 1967, and he was a Conservative member of Parliament for five years before […]
# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has welcomed the decision by the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, ordering that his defamation dispute with ANC National Executive Committee member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma be determined through oral evidence. Mbalula is suing Dlamini-Zuma after she accused him of “dishing out” cash to delegates to gain votes at the party’s 2022 […]
# Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US still has confidence in the security of all of its bases. This comes after the US removed all its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford in Britain to bases in America. The British air base was the target of a suspected terror attack last month, which resulted in […]
