# Tennis: Gael Monfils celebrated his 40th birthday in style as he progressed to the second round of the US Open. The Frenchman, who will retire at the end of the season, defeated Paraguay’s Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. Fifth-seeded Italian Flavio Cobolli needed five sets to beat Argentina’s Francisco Comesana. In the women’s […]
# The EFF has vehemently rejected the rescinding of advocate Thandazani Madonsela’s appointment as evidence leader of the Impeachment Committee without material evidence. Madonsela’s recommendation was rescinded amid a legal review of president Cyril Ramaphosa’s objection related to the Phala Phala scandal. The 31 members of the Impeachment Committee from 16 political parties have until […]
# The Legal Practice Council has categorically denied reports that controversial lawyer Malesela Teffo has been reinstated or readmitted to the legal profession. This comes after Teffo made a surprise appearance at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg during the attempted murder trial of businessman Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala and his four co-accused. Teffo maintains he […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, in Pretoria yesterday, for discussions on strengthening respect for international humanitarian law and the rules of war. South Africa is one of the six founding states of the Global International Humanitarian Law Initiative, which has mobilised 118 […]
# The US military launched new airstrikes on Iranian targets, leaving four people dead, including a four-year-old child, and more than 50 injured. The US Central Command says the strikes followed recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. In retaliation, Tehran targeted American interests in […]
# EFF-leier Julius Malema het ingestem om Appèlhof-regter Keoagile Matojane in die Parlement verskoning te vra. Die parlementêre Etiekkomitee het bevind hy het die Etiese Gedragskode oortree toe hy die regter oor ʼn persoonlike saak by die Regterlike Dienskommissie bevraagteken het. Tydens die Regterlike Dienskommissie se onderhoude in 2021 vir aanstellings in die Appèlhof, het […]
# AfriForum sê die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, se erkenning dat gemeenskappe ‘n onontbeerlike rol speel in die bekamping van misdaad, moet nou omskep word in ‘n formele vennootskap tussen die SAPD en buurtwagte. Die jongste misdaadstatistiek toon dat hoewel die moordsyfer in die eerste kwartaal van die 2026/2027 finansiële jaar met 5,9-persent […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die motorbedryf is noodsaaklik vir die regering se pogings om die ekonomie te laat groei, meer uit te voer, beleggings te lok en werk te skep. Hy het gisteraand die hoofrede gelewer by die Volkswagen Groep in Afrika se 75ste Gala-dinee in Kariega in die Oos-Kaap. Volkswagen se aanleg in […]
# ʼn Jurie in Las Vegas het Duane “Keffe D” Davis skuldig bevind aan die moord op Tupac Shakur, byna 30 jaar nadat die beroemde kletsrymer doodgeskiet is. Shakur is op 7 September talle kere geskiet tydens ʼn verbyry-skietery in Las Vegas en is dae later dood. Aanklaers beskuldig die 63-jarige Davis dat hy die […]
