# Tennis: Six-time Wimbledon doubles champions Serena and Venus Williams have received a wild card into the women’s doubles draw for the third Grand Slam of the year. Twenty-three-time major champion Serena returned to the sport after four years at Queen’s last week, while Venus returned to the tour last July after a 16-month absence. […]
# TV presenter and rapper Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye has been released on five-thousand-rand bail, after the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg granted an urgent application yesterday. The 45-year-old was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly fired shots and kidnapped an e-hailing driver in Edenvale on the East Rand, accusing him of having a […]
# Rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has included five uncapped players in the 23-man squad to face the Barbarians in Gqeberha on Saturday. Junior Bok captain Riley Norton and Carlu Sadie are in the starting lineup, while the uncapped players among the replacements are JJ Kotze, Paul de Villiers, and Vusi Moyo. Faf de Klerk, […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema has criticised the government of national unity, accusing it of failing to address the country’s youth unemployment crisis. He addressed supporters during the party’s Youth Day Rally at the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday. Malema argued that government resources should be directed towards ensuring every child has access to education […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has appealed to all young people to register to build a South Africa that works for everyone. He addressed the party’s Rock the Registration Youth Day Rally in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, yesterday. The IEC will be holding a voter registration this weekend in preparation for the local government elections in November. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says all stakeholders in the country must work together to provide sustainable solutions to reduce unemployment among young people. South Africa’s official unemployment rate now stands at 32.7-percent, while 4.7 million young people who can work remain unemployed. Delivering the keynote address at the National Youth Day commemoration in Johannesburg yesterday, Ramaphosa […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says addressing the challenges facing young people requires practical solutions, not the scapegoating of vulnerable people. He delivered the keynote address at the National Youth Day commemoration in Johannesburg yesterday. The youth unemployment rate stands at 46-percent. Ramaphosa says the challenges facing young people are grave, and their concerns are real, which […]
# The United Nations has stressed the urgent need to open an aid corridor to transit the choked-off Strait of Hormuz and prevent a global hunger crisis. This comes as the US and Iran have agreed to a deal that will allow the reopening of the Strait, which normally transports about 20-percent of the world’s […]
# The Johannesburg Crisis Alliance says the City of Johannesburg has still not provided information about Eskom’s threatened interruption of electricity supply to the metro. The metro and City Power currently owe Eskom an arrear debt of 5.25-billion-rand. Following negotiations between the minister of Electricity and Energy, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Eskom and City Power, no agreement […]
