# Die minister van Basiese Onderwys, Siviwe Gwarube, sê haar departement is besig om ‘n diensverskaffer aan te stel om die handboektender van 1,6-miljard-rand te ondersoek. ‘n Gedeelte van die tender vir die publikasie van leerwerk- en onderrig-ondersteuningsmateriaal vir grondslagfase-leerders is toegeken aan die nuutgestigte Lighthouse Publishing, wat oor geen vorige ervaring beskik nie. Gwarube […]
# Soccer: Argentina’s captain, Lionel Messi, remains the highest-paid player in North America’s Major League, being paid more than double the next-highest earner. Messi signed a contract extension with Inter Miami late last year which saw his base salary double and the overall deal increasing to 466-million-rand per year in guaranteed compensation. The second-highest earner, […]
# Rugby: The game was plunged in controversy in Georgia when former captain Merab Sharikadze was banned for 11 years for helping teammates cheat in anti-doping tests. World Rugby also banned another five players and team doctor Nutsa Shamatava for up to nine years. A parallel investigation was launched alongside the World Anti-doping Agency after […]
# Rugby: The Stormers’ Springbok hooker, André-Hugo Venter, says any place below second on the United Rugby Championship log won’t be good enough. The Cape Town team plays Cardiff in Wales this weekend in their last group match. The Stormers are currently second on the log and already secured a home quarterfinal. Venter says they […]
# Cricket: Proteas Women’s head coach Mandla Mashimbuyi says veteran Shabnim Ismail was brought back because they need her X-factor for the T20 World Cup, starting in England and Wales next month. The 37-year-old was included in the 15-player squad after reversing her retirement. Mashimbuyi says he had been in talks with Ismail after last […]
# Die president van die Europese Kommissie, Ursula von der Leyen, het ‘n vertraging van sosiale media vir kinders voorgestel en sê nuwe wetgewing kan binnekort ingedien word. Sy het tydens ‘n EU-beraad in Kopenhagen gesê ‘n paneel deskundiges sal ‘n plan saamstel om minderjariges aanlyn te beskerm. Verskeie lande in die res van die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa vra Afrika-lande om toerisme te erken as ‘n belangrike drywer van ekonomiese groei en werkskepping. Hy het tydens die amptelike opening van die Afrika-reis-indaba in Durban gesê toerisme is ‘n groeiende sektor wat help om die vasteland se beeld wêreldwyd te vorm. Hy het die belangrikheid van sterk infrastruktuur beklemtoon en […]
# ‘n Nederlandse hospitaal het 12 personeellede in kwarantyn geplaas as voorsorgmaatreël nadat bloed en urine van ’n hantavirus‑pasiënt sonder die nakoming van streng protokolle hanteer is. Die Radboud Universiteit se mediese sentrum in Nijmegen sê die personeel sal vir ses weke in kwarantyn bly en voeg by die besmettingsgevaar is baie laag en pasiëntsorg […]
# Die bevestigde sterftetal weens storms in die Wes-Kaap het tot ses gestyg, terwyl byna ses-duisend mense weerloos gelaat is terwyl die gure weer die provinsie aanhou teister met wydverspreide oorstromings, ontruimings en skade aan infrastruktuur. Die owerhede sê byna twee duisend blyplekke is oorstroom or verwoes in informele nedersettings soos in Philippi en Khayelitsha […]
