# Tennis: Promising young Filipino Alexandra Eala waltzed through her first-round match at the US Open. The 21-year-old only lost three games on her way to victory over local player Mary Stoiana at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York. Eala shot up to 18th in the world rankings last month after clinching her first […]
# The City of Johannesburg has appointed Lesiba Arnold Malotana as new head of the Department for Public Safety after a comprehensive recruitment, selection and assessment process. The appointment of the former head of the Gauteng Department of Health is controversial after a lifestyle audit conducted by the Special Investigating Unit classified him as ‘high […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed the arrest of syndicate kingpin Joel Govindraju in connection with its probe of more than two-billion-rand looted through Tembisa Hospital tenders. He faces multiple charges arising from allegations of the procurement of medical supplies and equipment at the hospital. The SIU says the Govindraju Syndicate siphoned approximately 600-million-rand […]
# A report shows the glacier that collapsed and triggered the deadly flash floods in Nepal and Tibet last week, showed visible signs of instability days before the disaster. The death toll stands at over one-thousand-100, with some four-thousand people still missing. The report, compiled by a group of international scientists, states pre-event indications included […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, David Maynier, says repairs to the flood damaged area at the Bontebok National Park in the Western Cape are expected to cost 12.3-million-rand. He says the park sustained severe damage to some of its chalets and picnic sites, as well as the main access road to the […]
# Sokker: Engelse Premierliga-klubs het die bestedingsrekord vir oordragte die tweede agtereenvolgende jaar oortref, en 75,5-miljard-rand bestee. Elf van die 20 klubs het hul oordragrekords oortref. Enzo Fernandez se gesamentlike Britse oordragrekord-skuif van Chelsea na Manchester City het opslae gemaak nadat hy vir 2,7-miljard-rand verkoop is. Die Argentyn is die vierde speler wat in hierdie […]
# Golf: Fifteen-time major champion Tiger Woods, who is scheduled to appear in a Florida court today, is reportedly set to change his not guilty plea as part of an ongoing driving under the influence case. The 50-year-old was arrested after he crashed his Land Rover in Florida in March. He passed a breathalyser test but […]
# The US Congress has passed an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act until the end of 2028. This followed Senate’s approval last month. AGOA was first enacted in 2000 to provide duty-free access to the US market for eligible Sub-Saharan countries, including South Africa, covering over one-thousand-800 products. Democratic Congresswoman Terri Sewell […]
# China’s National Energy Administration says at the end of July, the country’s installed solar power capacity reached 1.286-billion kilowatts. For the first time, photovoltaic installed capacity surpassed coal-fired power, becoming the largest power source category in China. During the first seven months of 2026 alone, China added more than 86 gigawatts of new solar […]
