# UK spy agency GCHQ director, Anne Keast-Butler, says Britain is at a moment of consequence, with the country facing increasingly brazen behaviour from hostile nations, including Russia. She revealed her office’s annual threat assessment, saying they are helping to counter reckless sabotage and assassination attempts by the Kremlin. Keast-Butler says Putin is going backwards […]
# Cricket: Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi powered the Rajasthan Royals to a 47-run victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League eliminator match. Fifteen-year-old Sooryavanshi scored 97 off just 29 balls as the Royals posted 243 for eight in their 20 overs. In reply, Jofra Archer claimed three wickets as Sunrisers were bowled out […]
# Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, says overcrowding in prisons is driven by pressures in the criminal justice system, including delays in processing remand detainee cases and court referrals. Currently, the department has some 107-thousand beds available for inmates, with sentenced inmates already occupying at least 106-thousand-280 beds. Groenewald says the main pressure stems […]
# The US military carried out new strikes in Iran on Wednesday, targeting a site around the Strait of Hormuz. Officials believe the site posed a threat to US forces and commercial maritime traffic in the Strait, which normally transports a fifth of the world’s oil. Multiple Iranian drones were also reportedly shot down and […]
# Tennis: Twenty-four time major champion, Novak Djokovic, is through to the third round of the French Open, after seeing off Frenchman Valentin Royer, 6-3, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3. The Serbian will next face Brazil’s Joao Fonseca, who defeated Croatian Dino Prizmic, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. Germany’s Alexander Zverev eased past Czech Tomas Machac, 6-4, […]
# The Border Management Authority says of the 300 Ghanaians who took up their government’s offer of repatriation, 295 were found eligible to depart South Africa on a chartered flight from OR Tambo International Airport yesterday. This follows a wave of protests against illegal immigration, sparking fear of a resurgence of xenophobic violence. BMA’s Mmemme […]
# Soccer: Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has announced 26 players who will represent South Africa at the upcoming World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico. The squad contains three goalkeepers headed by captain Ronwen Williams, eleven defenders, including uncapped 22-year-old Olwethu Makhanya, four midfielders, and eight strikers. Other players who have made the […]
# The South African Communist Party has criticised the ANC, after the governing party refused to participate in the upcoming Conference of the Left. The conference, themed “Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power”, will be attended by various leftist political parties and unions. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula accused the initiative of being a […]
# Human Settlements minister, Thembi Simelane, has acknowledged that housing delivery remains below target, revealing that only 23-thousand-and-27 housing units were delivered against a target of 37-thousand-779 during the previous financial year. She tabled a 26.972-billion-rand budget allocation for the 2026/2027 financial year. Simelane says the department will take decisive action against underperforming contractors and officials […]
