# COSATU is calling for urgent measures to protect workers and the economy from steep fuel price increases expected next week. Petrol is forecast to rise by up to one-rand-seven-cents a litre, while diesel could increase by as much as two-rand-92-cents. The union federation says the increases will place further pressure on households already struggling […]
# Western Cape premier, Alan Winde has welcomed the decrease in murders recorded in the province during the first quarter of the 2026/2027 financial year. The latest quarterly police crime statistics show that murders in the province decreased by 6.7-percent, down from one-thousand-148 cases between April to June 2025 , to one-thousand-71 cases in the […]
# The DA in Gauteng says premier Panyaza Lesufi has failed to to curb serious violent crimes in the province. According to police crime statistics, Gauteng remains the country’s highest contributor to kidnapping, accounting for a staggering 51-percent of all reported kidnapping cases nationally between April and June this year, while one-thousand-772 attempted murders were […]
# Rugby: Die Stormers het met die oog op die 262222/27-seisoen kontrakverlengings met sleutelspelers gesluit, onder ander nege Verenigde Rugbykampioenskap-wenners wat by die blou en wit aanbly. Ruhan Nel, Deon Fourie, Seabelo Senatla, Leolin Zas, Marcel Theunissen, Hacjivah Dayimani, Warrick Gelant, Adré Smith en JJ Kotzé, is almal titelwenners in die 22/23-seisoen en het hul […]
# Rugby: The Stormers have secured a key group of players on contract extensions ahead of the 26/27 season, with nine URC winners among those committing their futures to the blue and white. Ruhan Nel, Deon Fourie, Seabelo Senatla, Leolin Zas, Marcel Theunissen, Hacjivah Dayimani, Warrick Gelant, Adré Smith and JJ Kotzé, all title winners […]
# Golf: Jean Hugo has claimed his 22nd Sunshine Tour title after winning the Sunbet Challenge at Wild Coast Sun by one shot. The 50-year-old South African carded a final-round 65 to finish eight-under-par, with Nikhil Rama second on seven-under. Hugo began the final round in joint 11th place, but three birdies on the front […]
# Nepal will need between 65-billion- and 81-billion-rand to rebuild after this week’s devastating floods along its border with China. The country’s finance Minister Swarnim Wagle told Reuters the estimate was preliminary, with officials still assessing the full extent of the damage. The floods destroyed homes and critical infrastructure, including roads, bridges and hydropower facilities. […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Buti Manamela, het die raad van die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente aangemoedig om stelsels, beheer en bestuur te versterk. Hy het met die raad vergader oor die inwerkingstelling van ‘n hofbevel, deurlopendheid en die toekomstige funksionering van die skema. Dit gaan oor van administrasie na tussentydse […]
# Chinese owerhede het reddingswerk naby die grens tussen Nepal en Tibet opgeskort oor vrese dat ʼn meer, wat tydens die aanvanklike modderstorting gevorm het en as ʼn versperring dien, nog ʼn ramp kan veroorsaak. Minstens 475 mense is in Nepal dood en een-duisend-300 word vermis ná dodelike kitsvloede in die Himalaja-grensgebied. In Tibet is […]
