# Cricket: Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc took six wickets as South Africa were bowled out for 329 in their first innings at stumps on day one of the series-deciding third Test in Cape Town. The Proteas were sent in to bat first, with Marques Ackerman and Aiden Markram putting on a 158-run opening partnership for the […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says government is acting against those who exploit legitimate concerns about irregular migration to advance criminal, hateful agendas. He spoke at the Africa and African Diaspora Conference in Johannesburg, held yesterday under the theme “The Return to Africa”. Lamola said to date more than 100 cases […]
# US president Donald Trump says he will respect the outcome of the midterm elections if they are “honest” despite his repeated attacks on the integrity of the voting process. His administration has tried to pressure states to vet their voter rolls for what it alleges are non-citizen voters. Last week, the Justice Department pre-emptively […]
# Die Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing vra alle kiesers om deel te neem aan die landwye Verkiesingstevredenheids-opname. Onderhoudvoerders doen dit volgende Woensdag tydens die munisipale verkiesing namens die Verkiesingskommissie by uitgesoekte stembusse in die land. Die RGN se woordvoerder, Alfred Thutloa, sê die opname sal gebruik word om kiesers se ervarings van die verkiesingsproses te […]
# SAFTU sê die herverkiesing van die Brasiliaanse president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is ‘n oorwinning vir werkers, armes, inheemse bevolkingsgroepe en almal wat hul demokratiese regte en maatskaplike vooruitgang verdedig het. Die linkse leier is die eerste president sedert die terugkeer na burgerlike bewind in 1985 wat wen nadat hy die eerste stemronde […]
# Die Universiteit van Johannesburg sê bedrywighede het hervat op sy Aucklandpark-kampus ná gister se betogings oor die voorgestelde klasgeldverhogings vir 2027. Video’s op sosiale media toon hoe betogers die eksamen ontwrig en skade aanrig, insluitend die vernietiging van die universiteit se skaalmodel. Die bestuur sê hy voer gesprekke met studenteverteenwoordigers om aandag te skenk […]
# Women and girls accounted for one in four of the more than 37-thousand civilians killed in armed conflict last year, double their share in 2021. This is according to the 2026 United Nations secretary-general’s report on Women, Peace, and Security. In 2025, the UN verified nine-thousand-788 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, more than twice […]
# The US Justice Department has charged former FBI director James Comey for a third time, accusing him of leaking national defence information. The case stems from an alleged disclosure of classified information to New York Times in 2016, while he was head of the FBI. A previous case over Comey’s Congressional testimony was dismissed […]
# Tennis: Twenty-two-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal will headline an exhibition event, the MGM Slam, in Las Vegas in February. This will mark the Spaniard’s first time back on a US court since retiring in 2024. The 40-year-old faced countryman Carlos Alcaraz at the same event during his final year on the ATP Tour. […]
