# Cricket: D-Day has arrived as Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings play in the final of the Indian Premier League at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium. Play starts at 4pm. The two teams locked horns in the first qualifier as well. RCB beat Punjab by eight wickets in a one-sided contest. However, the […]
# The DA is calling for deeper cuts to red tape delaying renewable energy projects. According to the party, the Western Cape is working to speed up environmental approvals, but national rules are still too strict, and some projects take too long to process. The DA’s Dave Bryant wants a formal deal with the national […]
# Suid-Afrika se ekonomie het met slegs 0,1-persent in die eerste drie maande van die jaar gegroei. Die landbousektor, met ‘n groei van byna 16-persent danksy goeie reën, was die hoofdryfveer en het gehelp om ‘n inkrimping in die bruto binnelandse produk te vermy. Mynbou en vervaardiging het die ekonomie egter afgetrek, met dalings in […]
# The defence team of an Australian woman accused of killing three people with a home-cooked meal, called the deaths a terrible accident. The court heard that Erin Patterson, who testified today, cooked and served beef wellington containing toxic death cap mushrooms at her home in Victoria in July 2023. Her estranged husband’s parents and […]
# International Criminal Court judges will hear the war crimes charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in September. For the first time in ICC history, the so-called “confirmation of charges” hearing on 9 September will be held in absentia, with Kony still on the run. He is suspected of 39 counts of war crimes […]
# Die Portugese polisie het ‘n nuwe ondersoek begin naby waar die Britse kleuter Madeleine McCann in 2007 verdwyn het. Die destydse driejarige Madeleine het vermis geraak uit ‘n woonstel by die kusoord Praia da Luz in die suide van Portugal toe sy saam met haar familie op vakansie was. ‘n Internasionale veldtog is begin […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Pietermaritzburg het aansoeke van voormalige president Jacob Zuma en die Franse wapenmaatskappy, Thales, om hul wapentransaksie-korrupsieverhoor te staak, van die hand gewys. Zuma en Thales staan tereg op aanklagte van korrupsie, bedrog, afpersing en geldwassery wat verband hou met die wapentransaksie van 1999 van multimiljard-rand. Regter Nkosinathi Chili het in sy […]
# South Africa’s economy grew by just 0.1-percent in the first three months of the year. The agricultural sector was the main driver, growing by nearly 16-percent thanks to good rains, which helped avoid a contraction in gross domestic product. However, mining and manufacturing dragged the economy down, with declines in key products like platinum […]
# Die Wêreld Meteorologiese Organisasie voorspel dat wêreldtemperature tussen 2025 en 2029 waarskynlik alle rekords gaan oortref. Die organisasie sê daar is ‘n 80-persent moontlikheid dat temperature in minstens een van daardie jare, 2024 as die warmste jaar ooit gaan oortref. Daar is ook ‘n 86-persent waarskynlikheid dat voor-nywerheidsvlakke binne ‘n jaar ‘n styging van […]