# Golf: Chilean Joaquin Niemann leads the Irish Open at Doonbeg after an opening round five-under 65 in rainy, windy conditions. He has a two-shot lead over a group of five players, including Ireland’s Shane Lowry and South African Shaun Norris. Nineteen players did not finish their first round after play was suspended due to […]
# Today marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, when al-Qaeda’s suicide pilots flew two hijacked planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001. Two-thousand-977 victims died that day. Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US military in Pakistan in 2011. The alleged mastermind behind […]
# Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating corruption in the criminal justice system has written to the National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, asking for another extension. This request comes as the committee is busy compiling its draft preliminary report. Its report was due to be submitted today. Didiza has granted the committee five extensions already. Committee […]
# Department of Correctional Services National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, has revealed that around 173 prison officials are facing disciplinary processes. Some are charged with helping criminals bring contraband into prisons. This is part of an intensified nationwide crackdown and recent intelligence-led raids at correctional services facilities. Thobakgale says following the Rooigrond Maximum Correctional Centre escape, they […]
# The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has observed activity at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, an underground tunnel complex near Tehran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. The heavily fortified site is believed to be an under-construction nuclear facility. According to reports, Iran is using stockpiled parts to assemble both solid- and liquid-fuelled missiles. Agency director general […]
# Rugby: World Rugby has opened talks over staging a Six Nations match in the United States, as the sport builds towards the 2031 World Cup. South Africa and New Zealand have sold out the 71-thousand-capacity M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore for the fourth and final Test tomorrow. World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin says […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana says the South African Revenue Service is intensifying its fight against illicit financial flows and the broader illicit economy. During the 2024/2025 financial year, SARS recorded ten-thousand-142 customs seizures worth 6.3-billion-rand. It also collected 763.7-million-rand through fuel and petroleum schemes, and recovered 6.1-billion-rand linked to value-added-tax fraud and illicit gold trading. […]
# US vice president JD Vance has suggested that the post-election payments president Donald Trump has promised American adult citizens would come from revenues raised by the trade tariffs. Trump has vowed to pay every adult citizen 80-thousand-rand if his Republican Party retains the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections. Reports estimate this will cost […]
# US president Donald Trump has vowed to pay every American adult citizen 80-thousand-rand if his Republican Party retains the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections. He made the controversial pledge during a marathon speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas. Reports estimate this will cost over 16-trillion-rand. Trump claims his second term […]
