# Motorsport: Four-time Formula One champion Max Verstappen has signed a new long-term contract with Red Bull, which will see him race for the team through to 2030. His previous deal was due to expire at the end of 2028. The Dutchman first joined the Milton Keynes-based outfit in 2016, and has gone on to […]
# Tennis: Thirty-fifth-ranked Czech Sara Bejlek stunned world number one Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to advance to her first-ever WTA One-thousand quarterfinal at the Cincinnati Open. Bejlek won 7-6, 6-4. She will next face former champion Madison Keys of the US, who beat China’s Xiyu Wang 7-6, 6-4. Coco Gauff and her American compatriot Amanda Anisimova […]
# Australian Foreign minister Penny Wong has expressed outrage at Israel’s decision to not pursue any criminal proceedings for the killings of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her six World Central Kitchen colleagues. They died in an Israeli attack while distributing food in Gaza in April 2024. The Defence Force has cleared all its […]
# US president Donald Trump has threatened Iran with the most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country, while a deal to end the war remains at an impasse. In a post on Truth Social, Trump says Tehran failed to accept a deal, resulting in what he calls economic warfare and isolation on an […]
# The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are reportedly planning to move back to the UK this month, six years after relocating to the US. Prince Harry and Meghan left Britain in 2020 after stepping back, citing tabloid intrusion, racism in British institutions, online abuse and complex family dynamics as among the reasons behind their […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier Alan Winde het Jaco Londt as nuwe LUR vir Onderwys en Wendy Kaizer-Philander as LUR vir Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling aangestel. Die voormalige LUR vir Onderwys, David Maynier, is nou die nasionale minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing. Londt was sedert Junie 2024 by Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling betrokke. Winde sê Kaizer-Philander is ʼn […]
# Cricket: Three uncapped players have been included in the 15-player Proteas Women squad for next month’s T20 series against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. The squad will be led by regular captain Laura Wolvaardt, with the new faces being seamers Nthabiseng Nini and Caitlin Wyngaard, and spinner Luyanda Nzuza. Marizanne Kapp, Dané van Niekerk, Suné Luus, […]
# Die energiereguleerder, NERSA, het in die eerste kwartaal van die huidige boekjaar 124 opwekkingsaanlegte geregistreer. Dit wek saam 804 megawatt krag op, met ʼn geraamde beleggingswaarde van 20,18-miljard-rand. Foto-voltaïese sonkrag-tegnologie was die gewildste keuse vir die opwekking van elektrisiteit. NERSA se woordvoerder, Charles Hlebela, sê 63 van die 124 aanlegte is aan munisipale verspreidingsnetwerke […]
# Rugby: Former Springbok captain Gary Teichman believes the current Bok squad is in the best position possible to avenge his team’s series defeat to the All Blacks 30 years ago. New Zealand won 2-1 in 1996 for their first-ever series triumph in South Africa. The first of four Tests takes place at Ellis Park […]
