# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a face-to-face meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin in a renewed effort to end the war. This comes as Moscow has intensified its deadly aerial campaign in Kyiv, with Monday’s combined missile and drone strikes killing at least 22 people. In a letter, Zelensky stressed that peace shouldn’t […]
# The EFF in Gauteng has welcomed the rejection of the City of Ekurhuleni’s proposed 2026/2027 budget. The 71-billion-rand budget failed to secure the required support, with 96 councillors voting in favour and 105 against. This means the mayoral committee member for Finance, Jongizizwe Dlabathi, must now present a revised budget for consideration. The EFF […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, says South Africa stands ready to continue to engage with the US. This comes after the US has proposed 12.5-percent tariffs on imports from South Africa and other countries, accusing them of not doing enough to stop trade in goods produced with forced labour. The US […]
# Golf: Englishman Tommy Fleetwood is part of a four-way tie for the lead alongside Americans Wyndham Clark, JJ Spaun and Ryan Gerard on five-under 67, after the first round of the PGA Tour Memorial tournament in Ohio. One stroke back of the lead is Canadian Nick Taylor. Reigning two-time champion American Scottie Scheffler finished […]
# Die Parlement se staande komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge, SKOOR, het besluit om ʼn strafregtelike klag in te dien teen die voormalige hoof van die Padongelukkefonds, Collins Letsoalo. Dit volg op sy versuim om voor die komitee te verskyn nadat hy in November verlede jaar gedagvaar is. Die komitee het Letsoalo se verskyning geëis in […]
# Israel en Libanon het ooreengekom om ʼn hernude skietstilstand in te stel wat onder meer vereis dat alle aanvalle deur die Iran-ondersteunde Hisbolla-groep gestaak word. Die ooreenkoms volg nadat minstens nege mense gister in Israelse aanvalle in die suide van Libanon gesterf het, en Hisbolla vuurpyle op die noorde van Israel afgevuur het. Amerika […]
# Gauteng se LUR vir Onderwys, Lebogang Maile, het die moord op ʼn 18-jarige graad 10-leerder van die Mokgome Secondary School in Braamfischerville, Soweto, veroordeel. Volgens voorlopige ondersoeke is die tiener, wat tydens die moord nie by die skool was nie, deur onbekende persone met ʼn panga aangeval omdat hy blykbaar gesteelde goedere gehad het. […]
# Tennis: Die wêreld-nommer-een, Aryna Sabalenka van Belarus, is in die Franse Ope se kwarteindrondte uitgeskakel. Die Rus, Diana Shnaider, het haar verslaan en deurgedring na haar eerste Grand Slam-halfeindstryd. Shnaider kom teen die Poolse kwalifiseerder, Maja Chwalinska, te staan wat met Anna Kalinskaya van Rusland afgereken het. In die mansafdeling het die Italianer, Matteo […]
# Israel and Lebanon have agreed to implement a renewed ceasefire, which is contingent on a complete cessation of attacks from the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, among other conditions. The agreement comes after Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, and Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel. US Secretary of […]
