# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner passed a big test on his return from a three-month doping ban as he beat Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo to reach the Italian Open quarterfinals. The Italian will next face Norwegian Casper Ruud or Spain’s Jaume Munar. Defending champion Alexander Zverev of Germany saw off France’s Arthur Fils, while […]
# Build One South Africa says the government cannot tackle the country’s stagnant, unequal economy and stubbornly high unemployment rate. The Quarterly Labour Force survey for the first quarter shows the number of people employed in the formal sector decreased by 245-thousand while informal sector employment increased by 17-thousand. BOSA says that for far too long, […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the group of 49 white Afrikaners who left South Africa for the US were clearly unhappy with efforts to redress the inequities of the apartheid past. President Donald Trump granted them refugee status as victims of what he called a genocide. The president made a surprise visit to the annual […]
# President Donald Trump says the US-Saudi Arabia relationship has been a bedrock of security and prosperity. On Tuesday, he began the first leg of a major diplomatic four-day tour to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Trump signed several new agreements with Saudi Arabia’s government, including on military cooperation. Speaking at a […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says he will be available for direct peace talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, during his visit to Turkey on Thursday, where he is set to meet president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Zelensky says the only way to secure a ceasefire and an end to the war is through direct […]
# Wêreld-soutbewustheidsweek 2025 plaas die kollig op die gevare van oormatige soutinname. Die Hart- en Beroertestigting Suid-Afrika het by die wêreldtema aangesluit, 5 Ways to 5 Grams, wat ‘n daaglikse vermindering van sout aanmoedig. Die wêreldwye inname is gemiddeld 10,8 gram, wat meer as dubbel soveel as die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie se aanbeveling is, aangesien sout jaarliks […]
# AfriForum het die nasionale polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, gevra oor die hernude vertragings met die Sentrale Vuurwapenregister. Jacques Broodryk van die burgerregte-organisasie sê hulle eis deursigtigheid oor die 30-miljoen rand wat toegeken is om die register se stelsel te verbeter:
# Die premier van Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, het die inhegtenisneming van ‘n 48-jarige man verwelkom, wat na bewering erken het dat hy ‘n brand by die Tembisa-hospitaal gestig het. Die brand het in April by die hospitaal uitgebreek en die noodeenheid vernietig. Die premier se woordvoerder, Sizwe Pamla, sê die verdagte het na bewering ‘n […]
# Die Zimbabwiese regering het erken hy kan nie cholera uitwis nie. Dit volg nadat 11 mense dood is sedert die begin van die jongste uitbreking in November. Gesondheidskenners voer intussen aan die siekte is voorkombaar en kan uitgewis word, maar sê politieke wil ontbreek. Die minister van Gesondheid, Douglas Mombeshora, sê daar is planne […]
