# Rugby: England coach Steve Borthwick has named ten uncapped players in the 36-man squad for the July tour of Argentina and the USA. The squad, which will be captained by hooker Jamie George and fly-half George Ford, comprise of 20 forwards and 16 backs. The debutants include Bath’s Premiership-winning trio Will Muir, Max Ojomoh and […]
# Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, says the rollout of an upgraded National Population Register verification service to all companies and government users will begin on July 1st. Home Affairs has increased the fees for a single real-time verification check to ten-rand per transaction. For non-live batch verifications, where a user wishes to verify […]
# Die voorsitter van die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Tebogo Letsie, versoek die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente om dringend sy betalingsprobleme rondom studenteverblyf op te los. Letsie het met die voorsitters van die Parlement se Toesigkomitees vir Maatskaplike Dienste gepraat en veroordeel verskaffers wat sedert 2023 nie betaal nie en die […]
# Parliament’s Higher Education Portfolio Committee chairperson Tebogo Letsie has called on the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to urgently resolve payment issues of student accommodation. Speaking during a chairpersons of Parliament’s Social Services Cluster Oversight Committees update, Letsie condemned non-payment of providers since 2023 and slow response to appeals. He insists no student should […]
# Die adjunkpresident, Paul Mashatile, se skoonsuster word verbind met Sizekhaya Holdings, wat die lisensie ontvang het om Suid-Afrika se nasionale lotery vir agt jaar te bedryf. Volgens die amaBhungane-sentrum vir ondersoekende joernalistiek is Khumo Bogatsu ‘n mede-eienaar en mede-bestuurder van Bellamont Gaming, een van Sizekhaya se aandeelhouers. Die maatskappy ontken dat daar politieke inmenging […]
# Die Sekretaris-Generaal van die Verenigde Nasies, António Guterres, sê die Amerikaanse aanval op Iranse kernfasiliteite dui op ‘n gevaarlike wending in die Midde-Ooste, ‘n streek wat nie nog ‘n siklus van vernietiging kan deurstaan nie. Hy het gister ‘n noodvergadering van die VN-Veiligheidsraad in New York toegespreek. Guterres het ‘n beroep gedoen op ‘n […]
# Motorsport: Die voorloper in die MotoGP-kampioenskap, Marc Márquez van Ducati is op pad na sy sewende wêreldtitel toe hy die Italiaanse Grand Prix gewen het, sy 93ste oorwinning in al die klasse. Sy broer Alex, van Gresini Racing, het tweede geëindig met Fabio Di Giannantonio van die VR46 Racing-span derde. Brad Binder van Suid-Afrika […]
# Iran se ambassadeur by die Verenigde Nasies, Amir Saeid Iravani, beskuldig Amerika dat hy kies om sy eie veiligheid roekeloos op te offer om Israel se eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, te beskerm. Amerika het die naweek Iranse kernaanlegte aangeval en Teheran het gewaarsku die gevolge gaan onherstelbaar wees. Iravani het gister tydens ʼn noodvergadering […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile’s sister-in-law is linked to Sizekhaya Holdings, which has been awarded the licence to operate South Africa’s national lottery for eight years. According to the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism, among Sizekhaya’s shareholders is Bellamont Gaming, a company co-owned and co-directed by Khumo Bogatsu – Mashatile’s sister-in-law. Sizekhaya Holdings has dismissed any […]
