# Eskom says its generation performance continues to improve, with its energy availability factor reaching 68-percent for the financial year to date, the highest level in six years. According to the utility, unplanned outages have fallen, while about six-thousand-200 megawatts of generation capacity has been returned to the grid over the past three years. Eskom […]
# Cricket: The Proteas will face Australia in the one-day series without established bowlers Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi and Ottneil Baartman. Ngidi picked up an injury playing a domestic game for the Titans against the Dolphins this week. Gerald Coetzee and Duan Jansen had earlier been called up to the national set-up following Rabada and Baartman’s […]
# Krieket: Die Proteas sal in die eendagreeks teen Australië sonder gevestigde boulers soos Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi en Ottneil Baartman mot klaarkom. Ngidi het ‘n besering opgedoen terwyl hy vandeesweek in ‘n plaaslike wedstryd vir die Titans teen die Dolphins gespeel het. Gerald Coetzee en Duan Jansen is vroeër by die nasionale groep ingesluit […]
# Die Amerikaanse minister van Gesondheid, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, het aktiviste wat krities is oor entstowwe verseker hul het ‘n “sterk en standvastige bondgenoot” in president Donald Trump en die Withuis. Kennedy het die opmerkings gemaak op ‘n konferensie van Children’s Health Defense, ‘n groep wat hy voorheen gelei het wat hom beywer vir […]
# Public Service Commission chairperson Somadoda Fikeni has warned that recommendations from the Madlanga Commission could face resistance after the inquiry concludes. Testifying before the commission, Fikeni said resistance may involve legal hurdles, resource constraints, administrative processes or institutional dependencies, rather than outright refusal. He says the success of a commission should be measured by […]
# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme has officially opened the 2027 academic year applications. More than five-thousand applications were received within hours. University applications close on 31 October, while TVET college applications close on 30 September. Speaking in Johannesburg, Higher Education and Training minister Buti Manamela confirmed NSFAS strengthened data verification, automated document checks […]
# Travis Head smashed 112 as Australia beat Zimbabwe by 84 runs in the second ODI in Harare, securing the three-match series with a two-nil lead. Head’s century came from 75 balls, while Cooper Connolly made 78 and captain Mitchell Marsh added 53 as Australia posted 356 for six. Zimbabwe struggled to keep pace in […]
# US Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior has told vaccine-sceptic activists they have a strong and steadfast friend in president Donald Trump’s White House. He made the comments at a conference of Children’s Health Defense, a group he previously led that campaigns for changes to childhood vaccination policies. Kenney praised the Trump administration’s efforts […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, het die Internasionale Handelsadministrasie-kommissie versoek om Suid-Afrika handelsbeleid oor papierprodukte te hersien. Dit volg op versoeke van plaaslike vervaardigers vir hoër pryse vir internasionale papierprodukte aangesien hulle sukkel om mee te ding met goedkoper ingevoerde produkte, hoër elektrisiteit en vervoerkoste, en druk op winsgrense. Tau […]
