# Tennis: South Africa’s best player, Lloyd Harris, will face tenth-seeded Frenchman Arthur Fils or unseeded Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the second round of the US Open. He qualified for the tournament before beating local player Jack Kennedy in straight sets in the first round. Twenty-nine-year-old Harris’ best performance in the tournament was reaching the […]
# Krieket: Die Protea-snelbouler, Kagiso Rabada, is in ‘n wedloop teen tyd gewikkel om betyds fiks te wees vir die tuisreeks van drie toetse teen Australië in Oktober. Hy het sy regter-agterkniesening beseer tydens oefening vir sy plaaslike span, die Lions. Rabada is reeds onttrek van die eendagreeks teen Australië, wat volgende maand begin. Krieket […]
# Die R521 in Limpopo naby die Vivo-aansluiting bly gesluit nadat ‘n vragmotor geknipmes het. Woordvoerder van die Departement van Vervoer en Gemeenskapsveiligheid, Mashudu Mabata, sê verkeersbeamptes is op die toneel en herlei die verkeer na die skouer van die pad om na en van Alldays en Louis Trichardt te reis. Mabata vra motoriste om […]
# Forum for South Africa condemns municipalities for charging residents who installed boreholes after it failed to provide reliable water. Spokesperson Tebogo Mashilompane says it is unacceptable to punish residents for finding their own solutions to a basic service failure. He says residents should not pay for drilling, pumps and maintenance only to face an […]
# Fourteen municipalities risk electricity supply interruptions from Eskom if they fail to conclude distribution agreements by tomorrow. The National Treasury says none of the municipalities has signed a Distribution Agency Agreement with Eskom. The municipalities owe Eskom substantial amounts, with total municipal debt reaching 119-billion-rand. The agreements would see Eskom temporarily take over electricity […]
# Oudpresidente Jacob Zuma en Thabo Mbeki het hulle Konstitusionele Hof-aansoek verloor om regter Sisi Khampepe te dwing om te onttrek as voorsitter van die ondersoek na Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie-sake. Zuma en Mbeki het aangevoer Khampepe se vorige WVK- en vervolgingsrolle maak haar partydig. Die hof het haar besluit bekragtig om nie te onttrek nie, […]
# Tennis: Carlos Alcaraz of Spain and Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus start the defence of their US Open singles titles at Flushing Meadows in New York today. Alcaraz, who is seeded second this year, will face Roman Safiullin at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in the first round. The Russian is currently 135th in the world […]
# Die United Progressive People Alliance sê inwoners van Hammanskraal moes byna twee weke lank sonder betroubare watervoorsiening klaarkom. Die party se burgemeesterskandidaat vir Tshwane, Abel Tau, sê hulle moes sonder basiese higiëne klaarkom. Hy sê die watertoevoer is eers herstel toe die ANC se president, Cyril Ramaphosa, die gebied besoek het, wat vrae laat […]
# Former presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki lost their bid to have Justice Sisi Khampepe recuse herself as chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases inquiry. Zuma and Mbeki cited Khampepe’s past TRC and prosecutorial roles as grounds for bias. The court upheld her decision not to recuse herself, and the former presidents […]
