# Tennis: A new era will dawn on Wimbledon on Monday when the famous grass-court tournament will go without line judges for the first time in its history of 148 years. They are being replaced by the electronic line-calling system already used by two other Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and the Australian Open. […]
# Die minister van Verdediging, Angie Motshekga, herbevestig die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag is gereed om die land se soewereiniteit te verdedig ondanks fiskale beperkings en verouderende toerusting. Die departement werk nou saam met die Tesourie en die Presidensie om die Lugmag se vermoë te verbeter, insluitend die voortgesette onderhouding van vliegtuie en verkrygingspogings. Mothshekga erken […]
# Olimpiese Spele: Die Internasionale Olimpiese Komitee het besluit om die proses vir die verkiesing van toekomstige gasheerstede vir die Somer- en Winterspele te onderbreek. Dit volg na ‘n tweedaagse uitvoerende raadsvergadering in Lausanne, Switserland. Die president van die IOK, Kirsty Coventry, sê hulle sal ‘n werksgroep stig wat sal kyk na die bod-proses en […]
# Rugby: Springbokafrigter Rassie Erasmus moes noodgedwonge ‘n laat verandering aan sy span aanbring vir môre se wedstryd teen die Barbarians in Kaapstad. Kaptein Siya Kolisi moes onttrek weens ‘n ligte besering en Jesse Kriel sal die span aanvoer. Erasmus het Marco van Staden in Kolisi se plek in die opdrafspan gekies, en hy sal […]
# Tennis: Czech player Barbora Krejcikova’s defense of her Wimbledon title may hang in the balance after a thigh injury forced her out of the Eastbourne Open in England. She withdrew before her quarterfinal match against Varvara Gracheva of France. Krejcikova is supposed to play her first match at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Twenty-nine-year-old Krejcikova, who clinched […]
# Cricket: Rassie van der Dussen will captain the Proteas in the T20 tri-series against hosts Zimbabwe and New Zealand next month. Regular captain Aiden Markram as well as Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Majaraj are rested, while Anrich Nortjé is injured. Batter Lhuan-dré Pretorius could make his […]
# Cricket: A stop-clock rule has been introduced in Tests because of the long-standing problem of slow over-rates. The rule, already in use in white-ball cricket for the past year, forces the fielding side to start an over within a minute after ending the previous one. The International Cricket Council says an electronic clock will […]
# Die Amerikaanse ekonmomie het in die eerste drie maande van die jaar meer gekrimp as wat voorheen geskat is. Volgens die regering se data is verbruikersbesteding en uitvoere swakker as wat verwag was. Volgens die Departement van Handel, het Amerika se BBP met 0,5-persent in die eerste kwartaal gekrimp, swakker as die vorige skatting […]
# Krieket: Die snelbouler Jofra Archer is ingesluit in Engeland se groep vir die tweede toets teen Indië na ‘n afwesigheid van meer as vier jaar. Die 30-jarige bouler, wat gedurende sy loopbaan met beserings gesukkel het, het slegs 13 toetse gespeel – sy laaste in Februarie 2021. Sy laaste wedstryd vir Engeland was in […]
