# Motorsport: Saudi Arabia believes ownership of a Formula One team could be the next step after hosting a Grand Prix and sponsoring the sport. The chairperson of Saudi Arabia’s Automobile and Motorcycle Federation, Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, said before this coming weekend’s race in Jeddah the interest was definitely there. The kingdom hosted its first […]
# Soccer: World governing body Fifa is considering a playoff between Los Angeles and Club America from Mexico for a place at the Club World Cup in America. This follows the disqualification of Club Leon from Mexico over multi-club ownership rules. Fifa president Gianni Infantino says they should have the result of Leon’s appeal to […]
# Tennis: Die tweemalige kampioen Iga Swiatek begin hierdie week kleibaanseisoen en wil haar derde Stuttgart-ope in Duitsland en haar eerste kampioenskap van die jaar wen. Die Pool het tot dusver in haar loopbaan eenhonderd wedstryde op klei gespeel en 89 daarvan gewen. Die verdedigende kampioen, Elena Rybakina van Kazakhstan, speel nie in die toernooi […]
# Cricket: Two teenagers earned their first call-ups to the Proteas Women’s squad for a triangular one-day series in Sri Lanka starting later this month. Seventeen-year-old wicketkeeper Karabo Meso and 19-year-old leg-spinner Seshnie Naidu impressed for the South African under-19 team which reached the final of the Junior World Cup earlier this year. Allrounder Miané […]
# Golf: Newly-crowned Masters champion Rory McIlroy praised his caddy after clinching a career major Grand Slam on Sunday, saying he wouldn’t be able to win without his close friend Harry Diamond’s assistance. The two are friends since childhood, and Diamond was McIlroy’s best man at his wedding in 2018. He says the victory is […]
# Motorsport: Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko believes the Formula One team will have to come up with an improved car to keep the services of four-time world champion Max Verstappen. The Dutchman is currently third in the drivers’ championship behind McLaren’s two drivers, Lando Norris from England and Australian Oscar Piastri, after winning just […]
# Die GOOD-party het president Cyril Ramaphosa se aanstelling van die voormalige adjunkminister van Finansies, Mcebisi Jonas, as Suid-Afrika se spesiale gesant na die VSA verwelkom. Die party sê Jonas bring beide integriteit en ervaring na die rol en is geskik om Suid-Afrika se geloofwaardigheid in Washington te herbou nadat die voormalige ambassadeur Ebrahim Rasool […]
# Die geregtelike ondersoek na die dood van die anti-apartheids-regspraktisyn Griffiths Mxenge in 1981, is tot 17 Junie uitgestel. Twee afsonderlike geregtelike doodsondersoeke na die dood van Mxenge en die voormalige ANC-leier, hoofman Albert Luthuli, het vandag in die Hooggeregshof in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, begin. Luthuli het in 1967 in onduidelike omstandighede gesterf. Ncedile Dunywa van […]
# Tennis: The stage is now set for September’s final of the Billie Jean King Cup women’s team competition in Shenzhen, China. America and Japan became the latest two countries to qualify following victories over Slovakia and Canada, respectively. The other competitors are the hostesses, defending champion Italy, and the winners of the other four […]
