# Athletics: The track wasn’t damaged in yesterday’s fire at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which hosted the Games of 2016. Dozens of firefighters converged on the velodrome, which houses the Olympic Museum that features exhibits and artefacts from the Games. No injuries were reported, and the flames didn’t spread to other […]
# Die kulturele konsulaat van die Iranse ambassade in Suid-Afrika het die wapenstilstand van twee weke tussen Teheran en Amerika verwelkom en gesê ware veiligheid in die Midde-Ooste kan nie op die oorheersing van oorlog gebou word nie. Hy sê hoewel die oorlog lyding meegebring het, het dit ook die diepgaande vermoë van die Iranse […]
# Rugby: Prolific try-scorer Quewin Nortjé returns to the Blitzboks for next weekend’s Hong Kong Sevens. South Africa already clinched the regular series title in New York last month, and this will now be followed by world championship events in the Chinese territory, Valladolid in Spain and Bordeaux in France before a grand champion is […]
# Roadrunning: South Africa’s queen of long distances, Gerda Steyn, has set her sights on a seventh Two Oceans Marathon title this weekend, saying she is using expectations as support to strengthen her confidence. She ran the iconic race over 56-kilometres for the first time in 2016 and finished, for her, a disappointing 14th place, […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, sê sy departement oorweeg openbaar-privaat vennootskappe om die Suid-Afrikaanse Poskantoor te versterk en finansieel bestendig te maak. Na jare in sakeredding is ongeveer 350-miljoen-rand nodig om dit nog vir ses maande aan die gang te hou. Die sakereddingpraktisyns sê sonder fondse is hulle wettig verplig […]
# Golf: Local player Gary Woodland will be allowed private security during the US Masters, which tees off at Augusta in Georgia later today. The 2019 US Open champion underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumour in September 2023 which was successful, but left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. One of the side effects […]
# Roadrunning: South African long-distance ace Bruce Fordyce warned athletes not to be fooled by the slow start to this weekend’s Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town. He had completed the race over 56 kilometres 32 times and the half-marathon over 21.1 kilometre another five times, while also winning the iconic Comrades Marathon a record […]
# Rugby: All Blacks Will Jordan and Codie Taylor are injured and will miss the next stretch of the Crusaders’ Super Rugby seasons which head coach Rob Penney describes as massively important. It’s not sure when the two playmakers will be back again. Taylor scored four tries in the 13-time champion’s 69-26 victory over Fijian […]
# Amerika se ambassadeur in Suid-Afrika, Brent Bozell, sê sy land is gereed om miljarde rand se beleggings te bring, maar daar is steeds belangrike uitdagings. Hy het in Pretoria gesê hy is bekommerd oor privaat eiendomsregte en eienaarskapsvereistes vir buitelandse ondernemings, wat groot beleggers kan afskrik. Bozell erken Suid-Afrika se unieke geskiedenis en sê […]
