# The ANC Greater Joburg Region says the City of Johannesburg’s 97.1-billion-rand budget for the 2026/2027 financial year represents a bold and decisive intervention aimed at restoring the metro. The budget is up from the 89-billion-rand in the previous year. The ANC says it supports measures aimed at strengthening governance, improving revenue collection, reducing electricity […]
# The EFF is demanding that National Assembly speaker, Thoko Didiza, opposes president Cyril Ramaphosa’s application to set aside the Section 89 independent panel report into Phala Phala. On Tuesday, the president filed his papers in the Western Cape High Court for the review of the report. The panel found that there is prima facie […]
# UK spy agency GCHQ director, Anne Keast-Butler, says Britain is at a moment of consequence, with the country facing increasingly brazen behaviour from hostile nations, including Russia. She revealed her office’s annual threat assessment, saying they are helping to counter reckless sabotage and assassination attempts by the Kremlin. Keast-Butler says Putin is going backwards […]
# Die Grensbestuursowerheid sê 295 van die 300 Ghanese wat hul regering se aanbod van repatriasie aanvaar het, kon gister op ʼn huurvlug vanaf OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe uit Suid-Afrika vertrek. Dit volg na ʼn vlaag betogings teen onwettige immigrasie wat vrese van hernude xenofobiese geweld laat ontstaan het. BMA-woordvoerder Mmemme Mogotsi sê vyf Ghanese […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 28 May 2026: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports the Johannesburg Metro has announced sharp tariff increases for its residents. The city’s deputy mayor and mayoral committee member for Finance, Loyiso Masuku, says poor revenue collection is hampering service delivery. # And the Netwerk24 website: Firstly, reports the controversial […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 28 Mei 2026: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig die Johannesburg-metro het skerp tariefverhogings vir sy inwoners aangekondig. Die stad se onderburgemeester en burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Finansies, Loyiso Masuku, sê swak inkomste-invordering belemmer dienslewering. # En die Netwerk24-webblad: Berig eerstens die omstrede Mel Viljoen het stil-stil in die land […]
# Cricket: Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi powered the Rajasthan Royals to a 47-run victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League eliminator match. Fifteen-year-old Sooryavanshi scored 97 off just 29 balls as the Royals posted 243 for eight in their 20 overs. In reply, Jofra Archer claimed three wickets as Sunrisers were bowled out […]
# Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, says overcrowding in prisons is driven by pressures in the criminal justice system, including delays in processing remand detainee cases and court referrals. Currently, the department has some 107-thousand beds available for inmates, with sentenced inmates already occupying at least 106-thousand-280 beds. Groenewald says the main pressure stems […]
# Sokker: Bafana Bafana-afrigter Hugo Broos het 26 spelers bekendgemaak wat Suid-Afrika by die komende Wêreldbeker in Amerika, Kanada en Mexiko sal verteenwoordig. Die span het drie doelwagters, insluitend kaptein Ronwen Williams, elf verdedigers wat die 22-jarige nuweling Olwethu Makhanya insluit, vier middelveldspelers en agt doelskoppers. Ander spelers wat die groep gehaal het, is Lyle […]
