# Die DA sê die herstel van die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag se vermoë om misdadigers tronk toe te stuur, is noodsaaklik om Suid-Afrika veilig te maak vir sy landsburgers en om geslagsgeweld uit te roei. Die Oos-Kaapse Hooggeregshof het vroeër die week beslis die NVG is nie geregtig op ʼn verduideliking van die hof se onskuldigbevinding […]
# President Emmanuel Macron says France will recognise Palestine as a state in September, becoming the first member of the United Nations Security Council and the G7 nations to do so. The French president says he hopes this decision will bring peace to the Middle East. Macron added that the urgent need today is for […]
# Tennis: Britain’s Emma Raducanu is through to the Washington Open quarterfinals, after beating four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka of Japan, 6-4, 6-2. The 22-year-old will face wildcard Maria Sakkari next. Poland’s Magdalena Frech ended 45-year-old American Venus Williams’ comeback tournament with a 6-2, 6-2 victory. In the men’s draw, Russia’s Daniil Medvedev eased […]
# US Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, met with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in Tallahassee, Florida, yesterday, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. The meeting came on the backdrop of public backlash over president Donald Trump administration’s perceived lack of transparency, surrounding documents related to Epstein’s case. Maxwell’s […]
# Cricket: England ended day two of the fourth Test against India on 225 for two in their first innings, trailing the visitors by 133-runs at Old Trafford in Manchester. Captain Ben Stokes claimed his first five-wicket haul since 2017 as India, who resumed the day on 264 for four, were ultimately bowled out for […]
# Only one of the three infamous Gupta Saxonwold properties was sold at an auction yesterday. The properties, once at the centre of the state capture saga, have stood vacant since 2018, when the Gupta brothers fled South Africa amid mounting allegations of corruption. The sold property fetched 3.3-million-rand, 40-percent off its listed value. Park Village […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead an engagement between the national executive and the provincial executive of the Northern Cape today. This is aligned to the president’s commitment to collaborate closely with provincial and local governments to improve the lives of citizens and broaden economic opportunities. The Presidency says the provincial executive, led by premier […]
# The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees says people in Gaza are neither dead nor alive; they are walking corpses. At least 113 people have died of hunger in Gaza, 45 of them in the last four days. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says they have the equivalent of six-thousand loaded trucks […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says small and medium enterprises are significant contributors to economic development and job creation globally. He delivered the closing remarks at the Global Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting in Boksburg, Gauteng, yesterday. The three-day event was held under the theme “Navigating New Business Frontiers.” Mashatile says governments can attribute […]
