# A coordinated operation involving police from the Free State, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, resulted in the seizing of crystal meth valued at 50-million-rand and the arrest of a 35-year-old man. On Tuesday, members of the Aliwal North Detectives and Crime Intelligence received information about a truck travelling from Smithfield to Aliwal […]
# Tennis: Six-time champion Novak Djokovic is through to the quarterfinals of the Miami Open for the eighth time. The Serb defeated Italian Lorenzo Musetti, 6-2, 6-2, to set up a clash with American Sebastian Korda, who battled past Frenchman Gael Monfils, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. Italian Matteo Berrettini and American Taylor Fritz are also through […]
# The ANC has welcomed the appointment of former president Kgalema Motlanthe to the panel of facilitators for peace talks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The panel also includes former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Catherine Samba Panza of Central African Republic and Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia. The ANC’s spokesperson, Mahlengi […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says president Cyril Ramaphosa has resorted to the letter of the Constitution in a bid to appoint a new ambassador to the US, in the process turning his back on the spirit of cooperation in the government of national unity. This is as the president has stated that there’s no […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare het kommer uitgespreek oor die regering se onlangse onthulling dat belastingbetalers 65-miljoen-rand aan eiendomsbelasting van leë staatsgeboue betaal het. Die vereniging se woordvoerder, Claude Naiker, sê sedert Januarie was daar een-duisend-259 leë erwe in staatsbesit, 207 leë huise en 830 verlate plase wat nie vir gebruik toegeken is nie. Hy […]
# Die MK-party sê hy gaan aan die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, skryf en vra vir ʼn parlementêre debat oor tuberkulose. Suid-Afrika is onder 30 lande waar 87-persent van die wêreld se TB-gevalle voorkom. Dit is ook een van tien lande wat die driedubbele las van TB, MIV en ʼn kombinasie van […]
# Die Internasionale Dokumentêre Vereniging eis die onmiddellike vrylating van Hamden Ballal, die Palestynse regisseur van die Oscar-bekroonde dokumentêr, No Other Land. Hy is na wat berig word deur Israelse setlaars in die besette Wes Bank aangerand en soldate het hom weggeneem. Niemand weet waar hy hom bevind nie. Vyf Amerikaanse aktiviste van die Center […]
# Tennis: Die wêreld-nommer-een Aryna Sabalenka van Belarus is deur na die kwarteindronde van die Miami Ope na ‘n oorwinning oor die verdedigende kampioen, die Amerikaner Danielle Collins. Die ongekeurde Magda Linette van Pole het die wêreld-nommer-drie, Coco Gauff, van Amerika uitgeskakel. Jasmine Paolini van Italië het die Japanner Naomi Osaka verslaan. In die mansafdeling […]
# The Public Servants Association has expressed concern about the recent revelation by government that taxpayers have paid 65-million-rand in rates and services for more than one-thousand vacant state-owned properties. The association’s, Claude Naiker, says as of January, there were one-thousand-259 state-owned vacant lands, 207 unoccupied houses, and 830 abandoned farms that remain unallocated for […]
