# Roadrunning: Two-time Comrades marathon champion Tete Dijana is looking for a hat-trick victory this Sunday in the iconic ultra-marathon. Last year’s winner Piet Wiersma will also be defending his title in the 90-kilometre down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. Other top male contenders include Joseph Manyedi, Dan Moselakwe, and Edward Mothibi. Speaking at the […]
# The Department of Agriculture expects a 72-million-rand shipment of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines to arrive in South Africa by the second week of June. The deputy director-general for Agricultural Production, Biosecurity and Natural Resources Management, Dipepeneneng Serage, told Moneyweb the vaccines are being imported from Botswana due to South Africa’s limited domestic manufacturing capacity. The […]
# Soccer: Former England football captain, David Beckham is said to be in line for a knighthood, with King Charles’ birthday honours list of the recipients to be published next week. Beckham was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 2003. BBC Sport reports he is now in line to receive further recognition for […]
# Tennis: South Africa’s quad wheelchair player Donald Ramphadi and his doubles partner Ahmet Kaplan from Turkey lost the final of the French Open 6-3, 6-4 to number one seeds, Guy Sasson from Israel and Niels Vink from the Netherlands. Ramphadi, alongside partner Andy Lapthorne, was the 2023 French Open quad wheelchair doubles champion. South […]
# Die United Democratic Movement vra die Suid-Afrikaanse Menseregtekommissie die moord van Sisonke Mbolekwa dringend onafhanklik te ondersoek. Hy is in April vanjaar tydens ‘n studentebetoging op die Mthatha-kampus van die Walter Sisulu Universiteit in die Oos-Kaap doodgeskiet, na bewering deur die waarnemende koshuisbestuurder, Manelisi Mampane. Yongama Zigebe van die UDM sê Mampane is borgtog […]
# Iran warned Britain, France and Germany against backing a draft resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency accusing Tehran of non-compliance, calling it a “strategic mistake”. Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran will react strongly against any violation of its rights. The warning from Iran’s top diplomat comes as the three European governments prepare […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended condolences to the family of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu and the people of Zambia following his passing in Pretoria yesterday, aged 68. According to the Patriotic Front, Lungu had been receiving medical treatment in South Africa for several weeks for an undisclosed illness. Lungu led Zambia from 2015, […]
# Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Israel is supporting an armed group in Gaza that opposes the militant group Hamas, following comments by a former minister that Israel had transferred weapons to it. Israeli and Palestinian media have reported that the group Israel has been working with is part of a local Bedouin tribe […]
# Rugby: Anathi Qolo will captain a Springbok women’s side with a combined 174 caps in their Rugby Africa Women’s Cup opener against Uganda in Antananarivo tomorrow. Three uncapped players, wing Patience Mokone, number 8 Faith Tshauke and flanker Anushka Groenewald, are in the starting team. A further five uncapped players have been named on […]
