# Rugby: The Springboks’ technical adviser, former Test referee, Jaco Peyper, says the narrative about slowing down the game comes whenever teams play at altitude. The All Blacks have been accusing South African teams of deliberately slowing down the game to undermine attempts to speed it up. Peyper says players have 30 seconds from the […]
# Soccer: FIFA’s chief operating official, Kevin Lamour, has been fired after going public with criticism of president Gianni Infantino’s failed plan to sell part of the World Cup to investors last month. He described the controversial FIFA Forward Enterprise plans as the project of one person, adding staff were deceived. The proposal, which involved selling […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Korrektiewe Dienste het kommer uitgespreek oor bewerings by die Kgosi Mampuru-tronk in Pretoria. Gevangenes beweer hulle moet 240-rand betaal vir toegang tot ʼn stapelbed. Dié wat nie kan betaal nie, moet op die sementvloer slaap in selle wat oorvol en vuil is. Die komitee sê hy is ook bekommerd oor […]
# Die Gautengse LUR vir Onderwys, Lebogang Maile, is bekommerd oor die uitwerking van voortslepende bende-geweld op leerders, onderwysers en die groter skoolgemeenskap van Westbury. Vier mense is die afgelope naweek doodgeskiet en een gewond. Dit sluit ʼn leerder van die Sekondêre Skool RW Fick in. Woordvoerder Onwabile Lubhelwana sê hulle gaan leerders wat hul […]
# MK Party first deputy president Duduzane Zuma has defended the party’s constant leadership changes, saying this should inspire more confidence in voters. Earlier this month, leader Jacob Zuma announced a leadership overhaul, placing his son directly below him in the party hierarchy. The reshuffle also saw several senior MK Party leaders removed or reassigned, […]
# The Philippines has experienced its second fatal school shooting in two months, after a student was shot dead before the alleged killer took his own life today. The shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga. According to a preliminary police report, the gunman brought a pistol […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisiekommissaris, Sizakhele Dyantyi, sê hy sal geen verdraagsaamheid toon teenoor beamptes wat omkoopgeld aanvaar of hul mag misbruik nie. ʼn Polisiebeampte wat probeer het om smokkelware by aanhoudingselle by die Mitchell’s Plain-polisiekantoor in te smokkel, is Sondag gearresteer. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Wesley Twigg, sê die beampte was aan die verkeerde kant van die […]
# Rugby: All Blacks coach Dave Rennie says he expects the Springboks to bring a powerful set-piece game and use back-to-back pressure to force mistakes at Ellis Park on Saturday. The tourists go into the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series opener with confidence after beating the Stormers, Sharks and Bulls. New Zealand have added Saula Ma’u […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda het die Valke in die Oos-Kaap en die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag ʼn verbeurdverklaringsbevel van meer as 2,3-miljoen-rand toegestaan. Dit hou verband met ʼn kontantrooftog in Julie 2024 op die pad tussen Kei-weg, Maclean Town en Stutterheim. Die Valke-woordvoerder, Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana, sê vyf verdagtes is tydens die voorval doodgeskiet en vyf ander […]
