# USA consumer sentiment deteriorated sharply in April and 12-month inflation expectations surged to its highest level since 1981. This comes amid unease over an escalating trade war, and fears of a recession. The University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said the slump in sentiment to the lowest level in nearly three years was all […]
# A mother from Dunnottar in Nigel has received an eight-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, after the High Court in Pretoria found her guilty of killing her 16-year-old son and trying to kill her seven-year-old daughter. In June 2022, the woman laced her children’s food with rat poison, following financial and health-related distress. […]
# Rise Mzansi has met with the ANC to discuss the budget and call for stronger rules in the government of national unity. The party says the fiscal framework reflects years of poor leadership and warned that a repeat next year won’t be accepted. Rise Mzansi’s Makashule Gana called for clearer GNU rules, urging all […]
# Tennis: Carlos Alcaraz battled back from a set down to beat French rising star Arthur Fils in a gripping Monte Carlo Masters quarter-final. The four-time Grand Slam champion, targeting his first Masters title since winning in Indian Wells last year, saved three break points in the 11th game of the second set en route […]
# Tennis: Carlos Alcaraz het teruggeveg nadat hy ’n stel agter geloop het om Franse opkomende ster Arthur Fils te verslaan in ’n spanningsvolle Monte Carlo Meesters-kwarteindstryd gister. Met sy oog op sy eerste meesterstitel sedert hy die Indian Wells verlede jaar gewen het, het die viermalige grand slam kampioen drie breekpunte in die 11de […]
# AfriForum says poor planning and misuse of Bloemhof Dam as a storage reservoir instead of a flood control dam has caused a manmade disaster. AfriForum’s disaster management specialist, Tarien Cooks, says forced sluice openings during high capacity levels endanger communities and infrastructure. Cooks blames the Department of Water and Sanitation’s failure to build more […]
# AfriForum sê swak beplanning en die misbruik van die Bloemhofdam as ‘n opgaardam in plaas van ‘n vloedbeheerdam het ‘n mensgemaakte ramp veroorsaak. AfriForum se rampbestuurspesialis, Tarien Cooks, sê die gedwonge oopmaak van sluishekke tydens hoë watervlakke stel gemeenskappe en infrastruktuur in gevaar. Cooks beskuldig die Departement van Water en Sanitasie vir die versuim […]
# Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, sê die regering van nasionale eenheid kan slegs hersaamgestel word indien een of meer vennote wegstap. Daar was oproepe dat die DA uit die koalisieregering geskop word omdat hy verlede week teen die fiskale begrotingsraamwerk gestem het. Mbalula het gister die media in Sandton toegespreek en sê die […]
# Die Withuis het bevestig tariewe op Chinese goedere is nou 145-persent, en onmiddellik van krag. President Donald Trump het Woensdag ʼn heffing van 125-persent op invoere uit China aangekondig. Die Withuis sê dit is bykomend tot ʼn bestaande fooi van 20-persent, wat Trump in die eerste weke van sy tweede termyn ingestel het omdat […]
