# US envoy and president Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is set to meet Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. It comes after he held rare talks with Hamas leaders on the implementation of the 15-point US-backed Gaza peace plan. The plan, which Netanyahu has rejected, calls for a series of sequenced steps, including Hamas’ […]
# Rugby: Springbok-hoofafrigter Rassie Erasmus het besluit om die All Blacks so lank moontlik aan die raai te hou deur eers Donderdagmiddag sy groep aan te kondig vir Saterdag se eerste toets. Hy kondig gewoonlik die span baie vroeër aan, maar het dit in die verlede ook so gedoen vir ‘n kragmeting met Nieu-Seeland. Erasmus […]
# Die African Independent Congress het die naweek se dodelike skietvoorval in Westbury, Johannesburg, veroordeel en sê inwoners verdien om sonder vrees te lewe. Drie mense is dood en twee is gewond. Margaret Arnolds van die party sê Westbury en soortgelyke gemeenskappe het volgehoue wetstoepassing nodig teen bendebedrywighede, dwelms, onwettige vuurwapens en georganiseerde misdaadnetwerke:
# Die Stad Kaapstad sê hy is bly die adjunkminister van Water en Sanitasie, Jack Bloom, toon belangstelling in die metro se belegging in sy infrastruktuur. Die adjunkminister het belangrike projekte besoek, insluitend die innoverende sanitasie-oplossing wat by die OR Tambo-plakkerskamp in Khayelitsha getoets word. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Water en Sanitasie, Zahid Badroodien, sê deur […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa’s membership of the Southern African Development Community is about job creation and improving citizen’s quality of life. The country is hosting the 46th Sadec summit in Durban this week. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says no country in the region can on its own build an integrated power […]
# Soccer: Forty-one-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo has suggested he will retire at the end of this season. Portugal’s captain is contracted to Saudi Pro League champions Al-Nassr until next year. Ronaldo told Vogue he has his future all mapped out, emphasising he has so many things to keep him busy. He has won five Ballons d’Or, […]
# Rugby: All Blacks prop Ollie Norris is returning to New Zealand after suffering a cartilage injury and is set to be sidelined for six weeks. He is the fourth player to be ruled out of the remainder of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry Tour in South Africa following injuries to George Bell, Billy Proctor and Caleb […]
# Actress Hayden Panettiere, popularly known for her roles on Heroes, Nashville and in Scream 4, has died at the age of 36. At just four years old, she was cast in the popular US soap opera One Life to Live. Panettiere went on to play a self-healing cheerleader in Heroes, which was followed by […]
# Tennis: Poland’s Iga Swiatek got her Cincinnati Open title defence off to a winning start, beating Colombia’s Emiliana Arango, 6-3, 6-0, to make the third round. World number one Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus defeated Australian Talia Gibson, while American Coco Gauff saw off Russian Liudmila Samsonova, 2-6, 6-4, 6-1. In the men’s draw, Portuguese […]
