# Rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has refused to make excuses for their 42-38 defeat to the Wallabies in Perth yesterday. The Boks trailed 24-17 at half-time and fell 42-17 behind after 63 minutes before a late fightback brought them within four points. However, this was not enough, despite Australia losing four players to yellow cards […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the recent mass shootings in the country. Seventeen people were killed at a tavern in Wedela on the West Rand, while ten people were shot dead in Lwandle, Cape Town, over the weekend. Meanwhile, last week, eleven people were killed in a mass shooting at a house in the […]
# Police have launched an investigation after the body of an eleventh woman was found along a railway line in Struisbult, Springs, in Ekurhuleni yesterday. The body was reportedly spotted by a security company patrol vehicle conducting routine patrols in the area. This latest discovery comes amid an ongoing investigation into a string of bodies […]
# Sokker: Die Suid-Afrikaanse onder-20-mansspan het nog net een oorwinning nodig om te kwalifiseer vir volgende jaar se Afrikabekertoernooi. Amajita berei voor om vandag in Matola, Mosambiek, teen Zambië te speel in die halfeindronde van die COSAFA-beker, met ‘n plek in die Afrikabekertoernooi op die spel. Albei spanne het die groepfase afgesluit met nege punte […]
# Sokker: Argentinië se hoofafrigter, Lionel Scaloni, sê die land se beste speler ooit, Lionel Messi, sal die geleentheid kry om internasionaal afskeid te neem op die manier wat hy wil. Die 39-jarige sal sy laaste wedstryd vir sy land op 6 Oktober in Buenos Aires speel in ‘n vriendskaplike kragmeting met Benin. Messi, wie […]
# Qatar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has condemned Yemen’s Houthis for launching ballistic missiles toward the cities of Taif and Yanbu in Saudi Arabia. Saudi air defences intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-allied group. Last week, it intercepted a drone launched by the Houthis towards Mecca. Qatar says it considers these aggressions a reprehensible […]
# The Free Market Foundation says South Africa cannot treat the US as a doormat while actively aligning with American adversaries. It has sent a delegation to the US, saying it wants to inform American counterparts about the conditions inside South Africa that continue to damage relations. Last week, the US imposed new visa restrictions targeting […]
# Rugby: Die nuwe Verenigde Rugbykampioenskap-seisoen begin vanaand in Ierland wanneer die Stormers Connacht in Galway besoek. Die wedstryd begin 8.45. Die ander drie Suid-Afrikaanse spanne is môre in aksie. Die Leeus verwelkom die verdedigende kampioen en Ierse bobaas-span, Leinster, 2.30 op Ellispark in Johannesburg, en die Haaie speel vier-uur tuis teen die Walliese span […]
# Standard Bank sê die Reserwebank se besluit om die rentekoers met 25 basispunte te verhoog, kom op ʼn moeilike tyd vir boere wat reeds deurloop onder hoë brandstof-, kunsmis- en ander insetkoste. Die styging is daarop gemik om inflasie onder beheer te hou. Brendan Jacobs van Standard Bank sê voortslepende onsekerheid in die wêreld […]
