# Motorsport: Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says the potential of becoming the first black Ferrari Formula One driver to win a home race for the team would be phenomenal. The Briton’s hopes of victory in the Italian Grand Prix this weekend should be boosted by the arrival of Ferrari’s second engine upgrade of the […]
# Rugby: Eighthman Harry Wilson returns to the Wallabies’ starting-15 to captain the team in tomorrow’s Test against Argentina in Mendoza. Allan Alaalatoa led Australia when they beat the Pumas 27-21 in San Salvador last Saturday, but is rested this weekend. Head coach Les Kiss made eight changes to his team, sticking to the rotation […]
# Automaker Volkswagen has approved a sweeping cost-cutting plan that would cut 50-thousand jobs, slim the company’s model line by half and end car production at four German plants. The company says it has excess production capacity of 500-thousand vehicles in Europe, and that a competitive future production allocation cannot be secured for plants in […]
# Die Gautengse Departement van Menslike Nedersettings sê die DA se verklaring oor die onwettige besetting van behuisingsprojekte is misleidend. Die party beskuldig die departement dat hy versuim om behuisingsprojekte te beskerm en sê 14 is die afgelope vyf jaar onwettig beset – onder meer Eagle Nest, Western Mega Project en Danville. Woordvoerder Tahir Sema […]
# Tennis: Australian Nick Kyrgios has accepted and served a reduced, one-month ban after testing positive for cocaine. The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended early last month after a sample he submitted during the Mallorca Open in Spain in June was found to contain a metabolite of cocaine. Kyrgios admitted to using cocaine at a nightclub. […]
# ʼn Vier-en-veertigjarige lid van die Mpumalanga-polisie se blitspatrollie is tydens ʼn vroë-oggend-operasie by die Secunda-polisiekantoor gearresteer. Hy word na bewering verbind met die kaping van vragmotors wat diesel in die provinsie vervoer. Mpumalanga se polisiewoordvoerder, Mavela Masondo, sê die beampte se betrokkenheid het aan die lig gekom tydens ʼn ondersoek na vier ander verdagtes […]
# Tennis: Die 40-jarige Fransman Gael Monfils het sy laaste Grand Slam-wedstryd gespeel, maar in die Amerikaanse Ope se tweede ronde teen die Amerikaner, Learner Tien, verloor. Karen Khachanov van Rusland het die wêreld-nommer-vier, Felix Auger-Aliassime van Kanada, getroef. In die vroue-afdeling het die tweede gekeurde Kazak, Elena Rybakina, ʼn oorwinning oor Jessica Bouzas Maneiro […]
# The Gauteng Human Settlements Department says the DA’s statement on the illegal occupation of housing projects is misleading. The party has accused the department of failing to protect housing projects, with 14 out of 45 having been illegally occupied in the last five years. These include Eagle Nest, Western Mega Project and Danville. Spokesperson […]
# A 44-year-old member of the Mpumalanga Police Flying Squad has been arrested during an early-morning operation at the Secunda Police Station today. He is allegedly linked to the hijacking of diesel trucks in the province. Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Mavela Masondo, says the involvement of the officer came to light during the investigation following the […]
