# The World Bank says the Iran war is projected to slow global economic growth to its weakest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic, and renewed hostilities could cause it to slump further. Global economic growth is forecast at 2.5-percent this year, down from 2.9-percent in 2025. The bank warns that growth could fall to just […]
# UK Armed Forces minister, Al Carns, has resigned hours after the resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey over a dispute about military funding. He is the seventh minister in prime minister Keir Starmer’s government to step down in the past month. In his resignation letter, Carns argued that the defence investment plan is not built […]
# Rugby: Bulls flyhalf Handré Pollard says the team’s character and resilience will be their greatest asset as they chase a first United Rugby Championship title against Leinster in Dublin next Friday. The Bulls will contest a fourth final in five seasons of the competition, while Leinster are chasing back-to-back URC titles. Pollard believes this […]
# Die minister van Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake, Velenkosini Hlabisa, sê provinsies beleef voortdurend druk weens rampe, klimaatsverandering en infrastruktuur-agterstande. Hy sê daar is 2,161-miljard-rand se rampherstel-toelaes aan 92 munisipaliteite toegeken, en 191,16-miljoen-rand deur die rampreaksie-toelaag aan 16 munisipaliteite. Hlabisa sê bykomende toekennings van 151-miljoen-rand aan provinsies en 203-miljoen-rand aan munisipaliteite word tans afgehandel:
# Cricket: England and Wales Cricket Board managing director of men’s cricket, Rob Key, says they are considering imposing a complete ban on alcohol while players are on international duty. This comes as England captain Ben Stokes and bowler Gus Atkinson are under investigation following an incident in a nightclub in Chelsea on Monday morning. The […]
# Sokker: Die regering het Bafana Bafana geloof vir hul geesdriftige vertoning teen Mexiko in hul Wêreldbeker-openingswedstryd. Suid-Afrika het met 2-0 teen die toernooi se medegashere verloor, en met nege man klaargemaak nadat Sphephelo Sithole en Themba Zwane met rooi kaarte afgestuur is. Die adjunk-regeringswoordvoerder, William Baloyi, sê dit was nie uitslag waarop die land […]
# Tshwane se distrikskommissaris, Samuel Thine, sê volgehoue samewerking tussen wetstoepassingagentskappe en gemeenskapstrukture is noodsaaklik in die voortgesette stryd teen misdaad en om veiliger gemeenskappe te verseker. ‘n Multi-dissiplinêre operasie om misdaad te voorkom wat in Ga-Rankuwa en Mabopane gehou is, het tot die inhegtenisneming van 345 verdagtes vir onder meer moord en gewapende roof, […]
# Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, maintains that government does not recognise the 30th of June deadline set for undocumented foreigners to leave the country. This comes as the anti-illegal-immigration group March and March has planned a national shutdown to demand that undocumented migrants leave the country. Kubayi says they work according […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare is woedend oor berigte dat die Departement van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur sowat 50-miljoen-rand gaan betaal vir ʼn huurooreenkoms van ʼn gebou in Pretoria wat nooit gebruik is nie. ʼn Woordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê dit verteenwoordig ernstige versuim wat bestuur, aanspreeklikheid en finansiële bestuur in die betrokke departement betref. Hy […]
