# Two people were killed and five others wounded, including a two-year-old boy, in a shooting at Seattle’s popular Bite of Seattle food festival in the US yesterday evening. According to the BBC, witnesses said they heard loud pops of rapid gunfire before fleeing and taking cover, some describing the scene as “pure chaos” and […]
# Die Gautengse Departement van Paaie en Vervoer sê hy verskerp pogings om verkeerstekens op kruisings reg oor die provinsie te herstel. Die herstelprogram sluit aansienlik strenger veiligheidsmaatreëls in om kabeldiefstal en vandalisme te voorkom. Die departement se woordvoerder, Lesiba Mpya, sê skade aan padinfrastruktuur ontwrig verkeersvloei en stel die publiek se veiligheid in gevaar:
# Die DA vra dat Suid-Afrika moet wegbeweeg van Transnet wat die land se vragspoornetwerk bestuur, en eerder privaat maatskappye toe te laat om die bedryf van belangrike spoorlyne oor te neem. Dit volg na die vrystelling van die jongste netwerkverklaring deur die bestuurder van Transnet se Spoorweginfrastruktuur. Chris Hunsinger van die DA sê die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die versoek van die hoof van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie, advokaat Andrea Johnson, aanvaar om met onmiddellike effek uit die amp te tree. Sy het aan die president en Nasionale Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Andy Mothibi, geskryf en versoek om met onmiddellike ingang te bedank en van haar kennisgewingstydperk van […]
# Soccer: Banyana Banyana head coach, Desiree Ellis, has stressed the significance of winning their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Group B opener against Tanzania in Casablanca, Morocco, this evening. In their last meeting, the two countries played to a draw. Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso are also in the group. The four semifinalists will […]
# Die vakverbond SAFTU moedig president Cyril Ramaphosa en die nasionale direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Andy Mothibi, aan om die hoof van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie, Andrea Johnson, se bedanking te aanvaar. Sy het gevra om met onmiddellike ingang van haar pos onthef te word sonder om die normale kennistydperk van drie maande te werk. SAFTU-woordvoerder, […]
# German police have shot dead the suspect responsible for the “Islamist terror attack” at Berlin’s Pride celebrations. The man identified as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese heritage, drove a van into a crowd of people near Tiergarten Park before stabbing several people with a machete. One person died and at least […]
# The Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration says operations at the Musina Temporary Repatriation Processing Centre in Limpopo will be scaled down from 20-thousand to one-thousand-500 capacity from the first of August. This follows a sustained decline in the number of undocumented foreign nationals requiring processing at the facility. More than 68-thousand foreign nationals have been processed for repatriation […]
# Cycling: Slovenian Tadej Pogačar has won a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title, confirming his status as one of the sport’s all-time greats. The 27-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider finished six-minutes-and-26-seconds ahead of Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel in the overall standings, with Mexican Isaac del Toro finishing third. The three-week Grand Tour’s final stage […]
