# Verskeie top wingerdplase lek hulle wonde na verwoestende en wysverspreide skade aan wingerde en infrastruktuur nadat die Breërivier in die Wes-Kaap dié week afgekom het. Boere sê die stygende vloedwater het hulle gedwing om te ontruim en het oesbedrywighede ontwrig. Noodspanne monitor steeds die gebiede wat geraak is terwyl produsente bekommerd is oor finansiële […]
# ‘n Ontleding deur die finansiële inligtingsfirma S&P Global Market Intelligence toon groei in Afrika suid van die Sahara sal vanjaar na verwagting steeds 4,1-persent bereik en volgende jaar 3,8-persent. Die hoof van streeksontleding, Thea Fourie, sê baie lande in die streek is minder geraak deur prysskokke soos dié van brandstof en ander gebruiksgoedere vergeleke […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se Kinderfonds, UNICEF, sê minstens 59 kinders is vermoedelik die afgelope week in Libanon dood of beseer. Die skietstilstand wat verlede maand aangekondig is, het nie daarin geslaag om die oorlog tussen Israel en Hizbollah te beëindig nie. Libanon se Openbare Gesondheidsnood-bedryfsentrum sê minstens 33 mense, insluitend vroue en kinders, is […]
# Cricket: Sarah Taylor becomes the first female coach of England’s senior men’s team after being appointed fielding guru for next month’s series of three Tests against New Zealand. The 36-year-old former wicketkeeper played 226 matches in all formats for the national women’s team and was part of the T20 and the one-day World Cup […]
# Soccer: Scientists say world governing body FIFA’s current heat safety measures for the World Cup in North America are inadequate and risk seriously harming players. A group of world-leading experts write in an open letter the guidelines are impossible to justify. They ask FIFA to introduce stronger protections such as longer cooling breaks and […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse regering sê die N1 is heropen in die Kaapse Wynland na storm-ontwrigting, maar erge vertragings word steeds verwag omdat net een rigting op ‘n keer moontlik is. Woordvoerder Regan Thaw sê die padagentskap, SANRAL, het onverpoosd gewerk om die roete tussen Worcester en die Paarl toeganklik te maak. Verkeerbeheer is ingestel, met […]
# Die African Transformation Movement verwelkom die aanstelling van ʼn ampsklagkomitee met 31 lede, maar waarsku dit moenie net nog ʼn versigtig uitgewerkte parlementêre vertoning wees nie. Die Konstitusionele Hof het onlangs beslis dat die Parlement se versuim om die Artikel 89-paneel se verslag te aanvaar dat president Cyril Ramaphosa moontlik sy ampseed oortree het, […]
# Cricket: England reshaped its squad for the first Test against New Zealand, choosing Emilio Gay as Ben Duckett’s opening partner in place of Zak Crawley. This is reportedly pointing to a rebuild after their woes in the recent Ashes Series against Australia. Twenty-six-year-old Gay is being rewarded for an impressive county championship where he […]
# Rugby: Japan’s national team will be without head coach Eddie Jones for the next six weeks after he was suspended for abusing match officials during the under-23s tour of his home country of Australia last month. The Japanese governing body says the 66-year-old was banned for a very serious matter. He will miss the […]
