# Nepal se minister van Buitelandse Sake, Shisir Khanal, sê hy hoop steeds die byna vierduisend mense wat vermis word na verlede week se dodelike kitsvloede, kan nog gered word. Onder die vermistes is meer as 600 werkers wat vermoedelik vasgekeer is in ‘n groot netwerk van moddergevulde tonnels by hidrokragaanlegte langs die Trishuli-rivier. Die […]
# Krieket: Suid-Afrika het ‘n oorwinning van 43 lopies oor Zimbabwe in hul Namibië T20-driehoekreeks behaal om hul plek in die eindstryd in Windhoek so te sê te verseker. Lhuan-dré Pretorius het 94 lopies van 51 balle aangeteken en ‘n openingsvennootskap van 68 met Jordan Hermann gedeel, voor ‘n tweede paaltjie-vennootskap van 86 met Dewald […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie sê hy het die ANC nie ‘n bykomende geleentheid gegee ná die 17:00-sperdatum van Vrydag verlede week om sy kandidaatlyste in te dien nie. Die party het versuim om sy lyste vir verskeie Oos-Kaapse munisipaliteite in te dien weens ‘tegniese probleme’ met die kommissie se kandidaatvasleggingstelsel. Die ANC beweer hy het die […]
# The US military launched new airstrikes on Iranian targets, leaving four people dead, including a four-year-old child, and more than 50 injured. The US Central Command says the strikes followed recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. In retaliation, Tehran targeted American interests in […]
# Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, says the National Minimum Wage remains a critical protection for sectors where women are concentrated: domestic work, agriculture, hospitality and retail. The national minimum wage is 30-rand-23-cents per ordinary hour worked. Meth says it is concerning that a significant proportion of economically active women in South Africa […]
# Swimming: Olympic champion Tatjana Smith has issued Swimming South Africa with a letter of demand seeking payment of interest on prize money allegedly retained for more than a year. She alleges that SSA retained the interest that accrued on 560-thousand-rand at the current exchange rate and 650-thousand-rand at the time in prize money earned […]
# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the US can resume when Washington gets serious about negotiations. Last week, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move rejected by Canadians. The Trump administration has levied 50-percent tariffs on Canadian goods, while […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee chairperson, Makashule Gana, has given political parties until Friday to submit further nominations for an evidence leader. The committee rescinded its decision to recommend advocate Thandazani Madonsela as the evidence leader of its inquiry into president Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala saga. Ramaphosa objected to the appointment, citing potential conflicts […]
# Nepal’s Foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, says he remains hopeful that the nearly four-thousand people still missing following last week’s deadly flash floods can still be rescued alive. Among the missing are over 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along the Trishuli River. The death […]
