# Tennis: Three-time champion Novak Djokovic has set up a mouthwatering semifinal clash with world number one Jannik Sinner at the French Open. The 38-year-old Serbian defeated last year’s finalist Alexander Zverev of Germany, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, as he continues his bid for a record-breaking 25th Grand Slam title. Sinner eased past Alexander Bublik of […]
# The EFF says it firmly rejects the report of Parliament’s standing committee on Finance, which adopted the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals tabled by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana last month. The passing of the fiscal framework is a key step in the budgeting process. The framework establishes economic policy and revenue projections and sets the […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the vast majority of illegal firearm cases in the metro never make it to trial due to the broken criminal justice system. A SAPS media release claims conviction rates of 80-to-90-percent in illegal firearm court cases. Hill-Lewis says over four years, only five-percent of convictions were secured of […]
# The Freedom Front Plus is calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to explain to South Africans why he signed the National Health Insurance Act into law shortly before last year’s elections. This as the president has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a high court ruling, that he give reasons for assenting to the NHI […]
# Die Demokratiese Party se kandidaat Lee Jae-myung het die Suid-Koreaanse blitspresidentsverkiesing met byna 50-persent van die stemme gewen. Sy hoofteenstander, Kim Moon-soo van die konserwatiewe People Power Party, het die nederlaag erken. Hy sê hy berus in die mense se besluit. Die verkiesing het gevolg na die vorige president Yoon Suk Yeol aangekla en […]
# Die vakbondfederasie Saftu sê hy verwerp die regering se oppervlakkige viering van die 0,1-persent groei in bruto binnelandse produk in vanjaar se eerste kwartaal. Hy sê die sogenaamde groei is nie insluitend of hervormend nie. Saftu-woordvoerder Newton Masuku sê fiskale, monetêre en handelsbeleid sal radikaal verander moet word om groeivlakke te haal wat genoeg […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Gauteng sê die begroting wat die LUR vir Finansies en Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling, Lebogang Maile, opnuut voorgelê het, verskil nie veel van verlede jaar s’n nie, behalwe die toename van 886,6-miljoen-rand. Die begroting vir die 2025/2026-boekjaar beloop 172,3-miljard-rand. Anton Alberts van die VF Plus sê hy sal met Maile vergader om […]
# Cosatu sê werkloosheid bly Suid-Afrika se grootste bestaanskrisis. Hy sê dis ʼn tikkende tydbom en die regering in samewerking met die sakebedryf, arbeid en die samelewing moet alles moontlik doen om dit te hanteer. Die vakverbond neem met kommer kennis van die skamele ekonomiese groei van 0,1-persent in vanjaar se eerste kwartaal. Cosatu-woordvoerder, Matthew […]
# The Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s snap presidential election, securing almost 50-percent of the vote. His main rival, Kim Moon-soo of the incumbent conservative People Power Party, has conceded defeat, saying he accepts the people’s decision. The election comes after former president Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and dismissed following his […]
