# Tennis: Seven-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz got his US Open title defence off to a winning start, beating Russia’s Roman Safiullin, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. The Spaniard has not played a competitive singles match since April due to injury. Swiss Stan Wawrinka played the final US Open match of his career after suffering defeat […]
# Die dodetal in verlede week se kitsvloedramp in die Nepal-Tibet-grensgebied staan nou op 955, met sowat vierduisend-471 mense wat steeds vermis word. Onder die vermistes is honderde werkers in hidroprojektonnels, ondergrondse gange wat die beweging van water van hidroprojekte vergemaklik. Nepal se eerste minister, Balendra Shah, het erken dat die land nie ten volle […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die fokus op die modernisering en transformasie van Suid-Afrika se kragstelsel is om energiesekerheid te verseker en goedkoop en skoon elektrisiteit vir alle burgers te verskaf. In sy weeklikse nuusbrief sê hy die land moet wegbeweeg van sy eeue-oue afhanklikheid van ‘n enkele nutsverskaffer as hy hoop om ‘n bekostigbare, […]
# Sokker: Lionel Messi van Argentinië het uit internasionale sokker getree na ‘n rekord-nalatenskap van 125 doele in 207 wedstryde. Die 39-jarige het in ses Wêreldbeker-toernooie gespeel, 2022 se toernooi in Katar gewen en in vanjaar se eindstryd teen Spanje verloor. Argentinië se voorste doelskieter van alle tye en die speler met die meeste wedstryde […]
# Deputy minister of Higher Education and Training, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, says institutions need to be more proactive in responding to skills shortages and changing economic needs, rather than waiting for directives from government. The department’s 2026/2027 Annual Performance Plan is anchored in a reform mandate flowing from president Cyril Ramaphosa’s declaration of a National Skills […]
# US president Donald Trump has threatened Iran after Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on American military targets in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, saying “we’re going to hit them hard”. American forces attacked two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The strike killed three people. Trump has also reiterated his […]
# IFP eThekwini mayoral candidate, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, says he is determined to bring about change to the metro. He is currently serving as the party’s national spokesperson and the deputy minister of Transport in the government of national unity. KwaZulu-Natal is the IFP’s stronghold. The party has increased the number of candidates it is fielding for […]
# Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says municipal debt remains one of the biggest threats to Eskom’s financial sustainability. On the 31st of March this year, municipal debt stood at 111.6-billion-rand, and increased to approximately 119-billion-rand by June. This comes as Eskom has recorded a second successive year of profitability, recording a profit […]
# The death toll from last week’s flash flooding disaster in the Nepal-Tibet border region now stands at 955, with some four-thousand-471 people still unaccounted for. Among the missing are hundreds of workers in hydro project tunnels, underground passages that facilitate the movement of water from hydro projects. Nepal’s prime minister, Balendra Shah, has acknowledged […]
