# Apple’s outgoing CEO, Tim Cook, says price increases across its product line are now unavoidable, due to soaring memory and storage chip costs. The boom in artificial intelligence and the disruption in the global supply of helium, a gas crucial in making semiconductors due to the Middle East conflict, have driven up prices in […]
# Rugby: Veteran Australian prop James Slipper is expected to reverse his retirement to represent the Wallabies in next year’s home World Cup. The 37-year-old retired in October last year after his 151st Test – the most ever for the country. Coach Joe Schmidt reportedly convinced Slipper to return following a brilliant Super Rugby campaign […]
# Gholf: Die Amerikaanse Gholfvereniging het die prysgeld van die Amerikaanse Ope tot meer as 365-miljoen-rand verhoog; dieselfde as dié van die Meesterstoernooi in April. Die wenner sal ʼn rekordbedrag van 73,5-miljoen-rand ontvang. Die 126ste Ope slaan vandag af op Shinnecock Hills in New York, met Jayden Schaper en Hennie du Plessis die enigste Suid-Afrikaners […]
# Die vakbond GIWUSA het kommer uitgespreek oor die jongste inflasiesyfers. Die koers het verlede maand tot 4,5-persent geklim teenoor vier-persent in April. Dis die hoogste jaarlikse koers sedert Julie 2024, toe inflasie 4,6-persent was. Die vakbond se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê dit ontbloot die wrede logika van die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank se monetêre beleid:
# Union federation Cosatu has welcomed the Industrial Development Corporation and Vision Group’s rescue package to save sugar giant, Tongaat Hulett. This preserves an estimated 250-thousand jobs across the sugar value chain. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says the potential liquidation of the massive South African company and cornerstone of the KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga economies would have […]
# Soccer: Kaizer Chiefs has appointed Fernando da Cruz as the new head coach on a two-year contract with a one-year option, effective 1 July. The 54-year-old French-born succeeds co-coaches Cedric Kaze and Khalil Ben Youssef, who left the club at the end of the season. He worked briefly with Amakhosi during pre-season two years […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu betoog môre landwyd teen stygende lewenskoste. Hy sê werkers kan nie meer byhou nie en daar moet opgetree word voor dit te laat is. Woordvoerder Zanele Sabela sê die afgelope maande se verdubbeling van brandstofpryse en werkers wat meer as 40-persent van hul inkomste aan vervoer bestee, veroorsaak dat mense breekpunt […]
# Die Johannesburgse Metro-polisiedepartement sê daar is tans aansienlike padsluitings op William Nicol-rylaan in Roodepoort. Dit volg na ʼn ernstige kettingbotsing wat laasnag plaasgevind het. ʼn Woordvoerder, Xolani Fihla, sê William Nicol-bane in ʼn oostelike rigting tussen Constancia Boulevard en Joseph Lister-straat in die rigting van die N1 sal die grootste deel van die dag […]
# Golf: The United States Golf Association has increased this year’s US Open prize money to over 365-million-rand – the same amount awarded at the Masters in April. The winner will take home a record 73.5-million-rand. The 126th US Open tees off at Shinnecock Hills in New York today, with only two South Africans, Jayden Schaper […]
