# Die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste se nasionale kommissaris, Makgothi Thobakgale, het bekend gemaak dat tugoptrede teen 173 tronkbewaarders aan die gang is. Sommige word aangekla dat hulle gevangenes gehelp het om smokkelware in die tronk in te bring. Dis deel van verskerpte landwye ingryping en onlangse intelligensie-gedrewe klopjagte by tronke. Thobakgale sê ná die […]
# Golf: Chilean Joaquin Niemann leads the Irish Open at Doonbeg after an opening round five-under 65 in rainy, windy conditions. He has a two-shot lead over a group of five players, including Ireland’s Shane Lowry and South African Shaun Norris. Nineteen players did not finish their first round after play was suspended due to […]
# Die Internasionale Atoomenergie-agentskap sê hy hou aktiwiteite dop by Iran se Pickaxe-berg, ʼn ondergrondse tonnel-netwerk naby Teheran se Natanz-uraanverrykingsfasiliteit. Die hoogsversterkte terrein is vermoedelik ʼn kernfasiliteit wat in aanbou is. Volgens berigte gebruik Iran opgegaarde onderdele om missiele te vervaardig wat met soliede en vloeibare brandstof aangedryf word. Die agentskap se direkteur-generaal, Rafael Grossi, […]
# Rugby: Wêreldrugby het met onderhandelings begin om ʼn Sesnasies-wedstryd in die Verenigde State aan te bied in aanloop tot die 2031-Wêreldbeker. Die M&T Bank-stadion in Baltimore met plek vir 71-duisend toeskouers, is uitverkoop vir môre se vierde en laaste toets tussen Suid-Afrika en Nieu-Seeland. Wêreldrugby se uitvoerende hoof, Alan Gilpin, sê die finansiële prestasie […]
# Today marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11, when al-Qaeda’s suicide pilots flew two hijacked planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001. Two-thousand-977 victims died that day. Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US military in Pakistan in 2011. The alleged mastermind behind […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, sê die Suid-Afrikaanse Inkomstediens verskerp sy stryd teen onwettige finansiële vloei en die breër onwettige ekonomie. Gedurende die 2024/2025-boekjaar het die diens 10-duisend-142 beslagleggings by doeanes ter waarde van 6,3-miljard-rand aangeteken. Die diens het ook 763,7-miljoen-rand deur brandstof- en petroleumskemas ingevorder en 6,1-miljard-rand in verband met BTW-bedrog en […]
# Die Amerikaanse visepresident, JD Vance, sê die na-verkiesingsbetalings wat president Donald Trump aan alle volwasse Amerikaanse burgers belowe het, sal befonds word deur die handelstariewe. Trump het belowe om elke volwasse burger 80-duisend-rand te betaal as sy Republikeinse Party die Huis en Senaat in November se middeltermynverkiesing behou. Volgens berigte sal dit meer as […]
# Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating corruption in the criminal justice system has written to the National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, asking for another extension. This request comes as the committee is busy compiling its draft preliminary report. Its report was due to be submitted today. Didiza has granted the committee five extensions already. Committee […]
# Department of Correctional Services National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, has revealed that around 173 prison officials are facing disciplinary processes. Some are charged with helping criminals bring contraband into prisons. This is part of an intensified nationwide crackdown and recent intelligence-led raids at correctional services facilities. Thobakgale says following the Rooigrond Maximum Correctional Centre escape, they […]
