# Soccer: The new season of the English Premier League gets underway this evening, with reigning champions Arsenal taking on newly-promoted Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium in London. The two other promoted teams will be in action tomorrow. Hull City takes on Manchester United, and Ipswich Town faces Sunderland. Ten-time champion Manchester City, under […]
# Rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus says they will not be fuelled by the agenda the All Blacks are driving in the media regarding their style of play. The first of four Tests will be played at Ellis Park in Johannesburg tomorrow. New Zealand is known for high-tempo, free-flowing, and multi-phase attacking rugby, while the […]
# The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on ten individuals alleged to be part of a network responsible for transferring cash to Hezbollah. This was allegedly done by couriers travelling on commercial flights between Lebanon, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. The Office of Foreign Assets Control says the network allowed the Iranian-backed Lebanese […]
# Two pro-democracy activists who organised annual vigils to mark China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown, have been found guilty of inciting subversion by a Hong Kong court. In 1989, the ruling Chinese Communist Party sent tanks in to violently quell peaceful, student-led democracy protests at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, killing an estimated ten-thousand people. Prominent young human […]
# Soccer: Banyana Banyana will face Chinese Taipei, Ecuador and Uzbekistan in the preliminary phase of the intercontinental play-offs for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Brazil. South Africa earned their place in the play-offs after their campaign in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, where they overcame Nigeria to keep their World Cup dream […]
# Die George-fees word weer in Desember aangebied met ʼn uitgebreide program en selfs meer geleenthede om die munisipaliteit se uitstekende talent, kultuur, kuns en sport ten toon te stel. Die fees duur van 9 tot 13 Desember. Die munisipaliteit se woordvoerder, Ntobeko Mangqwengqwe, sê die doel is om mense van alle ouderdomme deur sport […]
# Die eko-regte groep Green Connection dring by die Parlement aan om die voorgestelde Wetsontwerp op Gas te herroep en gewaarsku dat dit Suid-Afrika dieper kan dompel in afhanklikheid van olie en gas terwyl oorsig verswak word. Wanneer dit afgekondig word, sal dit die Gaswet vervang met ‘n nuwe raamwerk wat onder meer aardgas, gasinfrastruktuur, […]
# Tennis: This year’s US Open purse will reach 1.74-billion-rand, representing the largest player compensation package in the sport’s history. This is a 20-percent increase from last year. Both singles champions will earn around 88.4-million-rand, and first-round losers will get 2.25-million-rand, the largest amount in tennis history just for making the main draw. The compensation […]
# Die Valke het ʼn reuse-dwelmvervaardiging-aanleg van ʼn geraamde 600-miljoen-rand op ʼn plaas in Musina, Limpopo, ontdek en vyf buitelanders in hegtenis geneem. Dit is die derde geheime dwelmlaboratorium wat in die provinsie gesluit word. Woordvoerder Avele Fumba sê die deurbraak volg na twee maande se intensiewe ondersoek na vermeende dwelmvervaardiging op die plaas. Hy […]
