# Motorsport: George Russell has admitted that his struggles during the 2026 Formula One season have been incredibly difficult to navigate. The Mercedes driver posted a candid statement on social media on Monday, less than 24 hours after his teammate, Kimi Antonelli, secured his maiden Drivers’ Championship title at Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix. Russell, […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse regering en die Stad Kaapstad het ondernemings deur die taxi-verenigings CATA en CODETA verwelkom om geweld in die minibustaxi-bedryf te beëindig. Geweld rondom betwiste roetes in Delft, Langa en Epping, het verlede week 12 lewens geëis ná groeiende spanning die afgelope maand tussen die mededingende verenigings. Die LUR vir Mobiliteit, Isaac Sileku, […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says president Cyril Ramaphosa and minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, must shoulder the blame for South Africa’s exclusion from the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The US will exclude South Africa and Rwanda from the major Africa-US duty-free trade deal next year, over practices inconsistent with the […]
# The US National Transportation Safety Board says it has found initial evidence suggesting the aircraft that crashed in Florida could have begun breaking up in mid-air before nose-diving and exploding. Nine people on board the Learjet 60, which was travelling from Austin, Texas, to the Bahamas, died in Sunday’s crash. A tech entrepreneur and […]
# Government acknowledges the concern that the United States’ decision to revoke South Africa’s benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act will create for workers, exporters, and businesses. The country is set to lose its duty-free market access next year after Washington determined that Pretoria’s policies are inconsistent with AGOA’s eligibility criteria. Minister of […]
# Solidarity asserts that the United States’ decision to remove South Africa from the African Growth and Opportunity Act programme stems directly from the government’s failure to repair deteriorating diplomatic relations with Washington. According to the Office of the US Trade Representative, South Africa has engaged in practices that are inconsistent with AGOA’s eligibility criteria. […]
# Twenty-six people have been killed after Russian forces bombed a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution centre in the village of Komyshuvakha in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region. Four police officers and two members of a rescue crew are among the dead. Five other people are reported to have been injured. Ukrainian president Volodymyr […]
# According to a UNESCO report, global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2025, over one-thousand-600 journalists were killed around the world, with close to six out of seven cases of these killings remaining judicially unresolved. In 2024 and 2025 alone, 189 journalists […]
# The DA says South Africa’s exclusion as a beneficiary of the African Growth and Opportunity Act next year was avoidable and completely unnecessary in the context of sound economic diplomacy and negotiation. The Office of the US Trade Representative found that the government has engaged in practices which are inconsistent with AGOA’s eligibility criteria. […]
