# The Presidency says president Cyril Ramaphosa is hopeful that the meeting between his US and Russian counterparts, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, will set off a process that will lead to peace negotiations. Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska today to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. Presidency spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Jannik Sinner cruised into the Cincinnati Open semifinals with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. The Italian will face French qualifier Terence Atmane, who defeated Dane Holger Rune, 6-2, 6-3, to reach his maiden ATP Masters One-thousand semifinal. In the women’s draw, American Coco Gauff has set up a quarterfinal […]
# Build One South Africa is calling on the Department of Transport to urgently finalise long-overdue regulations for the e-hailing industry, as well as to tighten and modernise the regulation of the minibus taxi industry. A shooting incident on Wednesday night claimed the life of an e-hailing driver and the torching of two vehicles at […]
# The GOOD Party says it will join the national dialogue to confront South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis, a ticking time bomb for social stability. The first convention of the national dialogue will be held in Pretoria today and tomorrow. GOOD Party’s Youth chairperson, Kaden Arguile, says the cost of ignoring youth unemployment will be […]
# Die Buro vir Voedsel- en Landboubeleid se Basiese Landbouvooruitsigte vir 2025 tot 2034 wys dat Suid-Afrika se landbousektor oor die laaste twee dekades beter vertoon het as die land se breër ekonomie. Volgens die buro se direkteur, Tracy Davids, word dit hoofsaaklik aangedryf deur hoë-waarde, uitvoergedrewe kommoditeite. Davids sê stagnerende binnelandse inkomste maak uitvoere […]
# The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy’s Baseline Agricultural Outlook 2025 to 2034 has revealed that South Africa’s agricultural sector outperformed the wider economy over the past two decades. According to the Bureau’s director, Tracy Davids, this is driven largely by high-value, export-led commodities. Davids says stagnant domestic incomes make exports vital despite global […]
# Tennis: Die verdedigende kampioen, Jannik Sinner van Italië, het deurgedring na die kwarteindronde van die Cincinnati-ope toe hy die Franse kwalifiseerder Adrian Mannarino verslaan het. Die wêreld-nommer-twee, Carlos Alcaraz van Spanje, het die Italianer Luca Nardi verslaan en die Franse kwalifiseerder Terence Atmane het die Amerikaner Taylor Fritz geskok. In die vroue-afdeling het die […]
# Die Ministerie van Verdediging en Militêre Veterane distansieer homself van opmerkings wat generaal Rudzani Maphwanya van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag in Iran gemaak het. Hy en Iran se weermagbevelvoerder, majoor-generaal Amir Hatami, het volgens berigte hul lande se gemeenskaplike doel om globale arrogansie en aggressiewe koloniale benaderings te beveg, geloof. Maphwanya het ook Israel […]
# Een persoon is dood en twee ander beseer nadat onbekende verdagtes gisteraand e-taxi’s by die Maponya-winkelsentrum in Pimville, Soweto suid van Johannesburg, aan die brand gesteek het. Die woordvoerder van die polisie, Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi, sê ‘n e-taxi is gesien waar dit by die ingang van die sentrum stilgehou het. Vier mans het na die […]