# The World Health Organisation has condemned the reported killing of more than 460 patients, as well as the abduction of six health workers, from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. Before this latest attack, the WHO had verified 185 attacks on health care in Sudan with one-thousand-204 deaths and 416 injuries of […]
# Die SABC sê hy het ʼn lewensvatbare befondsingsmodel nodig om finansieel bestendig te bly. Die openbare uitsaaier het in die 2024/2025-boekjaar ʼn netto verlies van 253,3-miljoen-rand aangeteken wat 28-persent meer is as die vorige jaar se 197,8-miljoen-rand. Die huidige befondsingsmodel maak hoofsaaklik staat op TV-lisensies en advertensies. Die SABC-voorsitter, Khathutshelo Ramukumba, het aan die parlementêre […]
# Tennis: World number two Jannik Sinner is through to the last 16 of the Paris Masters. The Italian dispatched Belgium’s Zizou Bergs, 6-4, 6-2 in 88 minutes, extending his tour-level winning streak on indoor hard courts to 22 matches. Sinner will face Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo, who battled past Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic 7-5, 1-6, 7-6. […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson says it is high time that contractors who do not deliver and act with impunity are held accountable. On Wednesday, the minister unveiled the South African Construction Action Plan to recover delayed construction projects and restore accountability across the Public Works and Infrastructure sector. The six-point plan […]
# Acting Police minister, Firoz Cachalia, has welcomed the major drug bust in Midrand, Gauteng, which led to the seizure of cocaine valued at approximately 20-million-rand. Police raided a property in Blue Hills where they discovered cocaine weighing about 80 kilogrammes hidden in a storage room. A 56-year-old man, who is believed to be the […]
# Gauteng police’s Anti-Gang unit has arrested a 20-year-old suspect in connection with the deadly gang shooting in Westbury earlier this month. Four teenagers approached a group of seven boys between the ages of 13 and 19 and opened fire, killing two and injuring five others before walking away from the scene. Police spokesperson, Brenda […]
# Die Parys-aanklaer se kantoor sê die twee verdagtes wat gearresteer is in verband met die diefstal van kroonjuwele uit die Louvre se Apollo-galery, het erken dat hulle by die rooftog betrokke was. Agt kosbare skatte met ʼn geraamde waarde van 1,2-miljard-rand is twee weke gelede helderoordag uit die wêreld se gewildste museum gesteel deur […]
# The death toll from Hurricane Melissa continues to rise as the storm left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean. Hurricane Melissa, now a Category 1 storm, is crossing through the Bahamas, bringing heavy rain and damaging winds. Authorities in Jamaica have recovered four bodies, and at least 23 people have died in Haiti, […]
# The Government of National Unity Clearing House Mechanism has adopted its terms of reference following a meeting chaired by deputy president Paul Mashatile. In 2024, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the establishment of the Clearing House Mechanism to resolve policy disagreements within the ten-member GNU. The Presidency says the Clearing House Mechanism agreed that sufficient […]
