# Die Stad Ekurhuleni het die Harambee-busdiens tot verdere kennisgewing opgeskort. Dit hou verband met die voortgesette taxistaking oor die skut van voertuie. Taxi-operateurs in die metro het gister hul dienste gestaak uit protes teen wat hulle beskryf as onregverdige en onvolhoubare toepassingspraktyke. Die metro-woordvoerder, Zweli Dlamini, sê pendelaars word aangeraai om ander vervoer te gebruik:
# Die nasionale taxi-raad Santaco in Gauteng het die publiek verseker taxivervoer deur die hele provinsie sal vandag soos gewoonlik voortgaan. Dit volg op gerugte dat passasiers in Ekurhuleni ontwrigting te wagte kan wees weens toenemende spanning oor die beslaglegging op minibus-taxi’s, in besonder die tiensitplek-voertuig. Die provinsiale voorsitter van Santaco, Graham Fritz, sê hulle […]
# The Gauteng Education Department says the 2026 online admissions application period for Grade 1 and Grade 8 will officially close at midnight today. As of Thursday evening, the online admissions system had recorded a total of 800-thousand-530 Grade 1 and Grade 8 applications. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says to date, 52-thousand-929 incomplete applications […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Jannik Sinner is through to the US Open third round after beating Australian Alexei Popyrin, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. This is the Italian’s 23rd successive match victory in hard-court Grand Slams. Germany’s Alexander Zverev secured a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win against Britain’s Jacob Fearnley, while Poland’s Kamil Majchrzak stunned Russia’s Karen Khachanov, […]
# Die vakbondfederasie, Saftu, het kommer uitgespreek oor die energiereguleerder, Nersa, se skikkingsooreenkoms van 54-miljard-rand met Eskom. Dit volg nadat Nersa ʼn fout begaan het in die berekening van die kragvoorsiener se inkomste vir die huidige en volgende twee boekjare. Ná die prysbepaling se hersiening verhoog die tarief in elk van die volgende twee jare […]
# Solidarity says it is concerned about Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa’s latest job cuts. The automaker will lay off more than 470 employees at its Struandale Engine Plant, in Gqeberha, and its Silverton Assembly Plant in Pretoria, as part of a realignment to match market demand. Solidarity deputy general-secretary, Willie Venter, says economic […]
# Acting US Attorney General for Minnesota, Joseph Thompson, says the attacker who opened fire during the Annunciation Catholic School Mass in Minneapolis on Wednesday was obsessed with the idea of killing children. Robin Westman opened fire on praying students through the windows of the Annunciation Church, killing two children aged eight and ten. Eighteen […]
# The Malmesbury Regional Court in the Western Cape has acquitted former Springbok coach Peter de Villiers in a sexual assault case. He was charged with sexual assault and crimen injuria after a woman alleged that the former Bok coach sexually assaulted her after dropping her off at home following an event last January. Subsequently, […]
# Athletics: South Africa’s Akani Simbine crossed the line in 9.98-seconds to finish second in the men’s 100-metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich, Switzerland. His compatriot, Bayanda Walaza, pulled up with a hamstring injury. American Christian Coleman won the race with Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake in third. South Africa’s Jo-Ané du Plessis finished third […]
