# Rugby: The Springbok Women’s team started their defence of the Rugby Africa Women’s Cup the way the coaching staff hoped they would, scoring heaps of tries. South Africa outplayed Uganda 62-7 at Stade Makis, Antananarivo on Saturday. Assistant coach, Franzel September, said it was a good start, and it was pleasing to see the […]
# The UDM Women’s Organisation says it is appalled to learn that convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius participated in the Isuzu Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Durban on the first of this month. The party says this marks his first public sporting event since being granted parole in January last year. The UDM’s Thandi Nontenja says his […]
# AfriForum sê veediefstal het Suid-Afrika se landbousektor alreeds meer as 200-miljoen-rand van Januarie tot Maart vanjaar gekos. Terwyl die polisie ‘n effense daling in veediefstalsake aangemeld het, waarsku Hennie Bekker van AfriForum dat die finansiële skade veel erger is, aangesien meer as 43-duisend diere in die laaste kwartaal alleen gesteel is. Bekker het ook […]
# AfriForum says stock theft cost South Africa’s agricultural sector over 200-million-rand from January to March this year. While police reported a slight drop in stock theft cases, AfriForum’s Hennie Bekker warns that the financial damage is far worse as over 43-thousand animals were stolen in the last quarter alone. Bekker also confirmed that the […]
# Die wêreld se hoogste spoorwegbrug oor ‘n vallei is in Kasjmir deur die Indiese premier Narenda Modi geopen. Dit was Modi se eerste besoek aan Kasjmir wat deur Indië bestuur word, sedert ‘n kortstondige dodelike konflik tussen Indië en Pakistan in April. Die Chenab-boogbrug is 359 meter bo die rivier en 29 meter hoër […]
# The DA is calling on government to establish a specialised Rural Safety Unit within SAPS, with trained and equipped individuals solely focused on rural crime, farm attacks and stock theft. The DA’s Ian Cameron says for the first time, two key portfolio committees Agriculture and Police acknowledged the reality of farm attacks, their increasing […]
# Versorgers by die San Diego Humane Society dra handskoene, ‘n pelsjas en ‘n beermasker terwyl hulle ‘n wees-swartbeerwelpie grootmaak. Die welpie is in April deur kampeerders in die Los Padres Nasionale Woud in Kalifornië gevind en deur die vereniging ingeneem nadat sy ma nie gevind kon word nie. Dit is een van die jongste […]
# Caretakers at the San Diego Humane Society are wearing gloves, a fur coat, and a bear mask while raising an orphaned black bear cub. The cub was found by campers in California’s Los Padres National Forest in April and taken in by the humane society after his mother couldn’t be found. It is one […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says in a country like South Africa, where corruption is rampant, it is of the utmost importance to protect whistle-blowers in every possible way to safeguard their lives and futures. FF Plus’ Philip van Staden says the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development’s draft document outlining proposed reforms for whistle-blower […]
