# Sokker: Mamelodi Sundowns het hul tweede Kampioeneliga-titel opgeraap na ʼn gelykoptelling van een elk teen AS FAR in die tweede deel van die eindronde in Rabat, Marokko. Dit was genoeg om 2016 se kampioen ʼn gemiddelde sege van 2-1 te besorg nadat hulle FAR verlede naweek in Pretoria 1-0 geklop het. Sundowns het hul […]
# The World Health Organisation has raised the Ebola risk in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to very high. There are 904 suspected cases and 119 suspected deaths. The Bundibugyo strain, with a 30-to-50-percent fatality rate and no approved vaccine, has spread from the DRC’s Ituri province, the epicentre of the outbreak, into other provinces […]
# Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, is calling on all provincial departments to prioritise vaccinating as many animals as possible over the coming weeks. This follows the arrival of the first batch of a 3.5-million-dose consignment of Biogénesis Bagó foot-and-mouth disease vaccines. This is the largest single consignment of FMD vaccines ever imported into South […]
# Motorsport: Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli has extended his lead in the Drivers’ Championship to 43 points after winning the Canadian Grand Prix. This is the Italian’s fourth consecutive win. George Russell, who started on pole, retired from the race while battling with his teammate Antonelli due to a power unit issue. Seven-time world champion […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia’s use of its hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile to target his country must not go unpunished. Moscow launched a massive attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region over the weekend, killing at least four people and injuring about 100. The Russian Defence Ministry said this was in response to Ukraine’s […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa se regspan gaan volgens berigte vandag by die Hooggeregshof in Kaapstad aansoek doen om die Artikel 89-paneel se verslag te laat hersien. Die Konstitusionele Hof het bevind dat die Nasionale Vergadering onwettig opgetree het deur teen die verslag se aanvaarding te stem. Volgens die verslag moet Ramaphosa wel verslag doen oor […]
# AfriForum is calling on authorities to treat the investigation into the murder of an elderly tourist couple at the Kruger National Park as a matter of national importance. Their bodies were found at Crook’s Corner, where the Levubu and Limpopo rivers meet inside the national park, following a search operation after they failed to return […]
# Oudpresident Thabo Mbeki sê hy hoop Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur in Amerika, Roelf Meyer, sal die verhouding tussen Pretoria en Washington kan herstel. Meyer is Donderdag amptelik in die Withuis geakkrediteer. Hy sluit in Amerika aan by die beroepsdiplomaat, Thabo Thage, om Suid-Afrika se ambassade te hervestig. Mbeki het aan die SABC gesê hy het […]
# Israel se eerste minister Benjamin Netanyahu sê hy en president Donald Trump van Amerika het ooreengekom dat enige finale ooreenkoms met Iran die kerngevaar moet uitskakel. Die twee leiers het die naweek oor die foon beraadslaag. Amerika en Iran sê pogings om die oorlog te beëindig, vorder. Netanyahu sê dis ʼn prioriteit om Iran […]
