# The High Court in Johannesburg has sentenced 25-year-old Mozambican national Phethe Simiao to life imprisonment for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of six-year-old Amantle Samane in October 2024. Simiao pleaded guilty after the child’s body was found in his shack in Orlando East. Judge William Karam condemned the crime as perverse and noted Simiao’s […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, sê inligtingsintegriteit is die onsigbare infrastruktuur van demokrasie en noodsaaklik vir maatskaplike samehorigheid. Malatsi het tydens die Media 20-beraad in Johannesburg gewaarsku waninligting, diepvervalsings en manipulasie wat deur kunsmatige intelligensie gedryf word, bedreig verkiesings en stabiliteit. Malatsi het beklemtoon dat vrye, onafhanklike joernalistiek noodsaaklik is […]
# Communications and Digital Technologies minister, Solly Malatsi has warned that news media are struggling to survive, calling it an existential crisis. Speaking at the Media 20 Summit in Johannesburg, Malatsi cited the 2025 World Press Freedom Index, which found outlets in 160 of 180 countries face financial strain. He urged governments and the private […]
# Tennis: Daniil Medvedev van Rusland het sy afrigter van die afgelope agt jaar afgedank. Die 29-jarige het onder Gilles Cervara tot bo-aan die ATP-wêreldranglys geklim en ses Grand Slam-eindstryde gehaal, waarvan hy die Amerikaanse Ope in 2021 gewen het. Hulle laaste wedstryd saam was in die huidige Amerikaanse Ope waar hy in die eerste […]
# Tennis: Russia’s Daniil Medvedev has parted ways with his coach of eight years. Under Gilles Cervara, the 29-year-old topped the ATP world rankings and reached six Grand Slam finals, winning one at the 2021 US Open. Medvedev’s last match with Cervara came at this year’s US Open, where he suffered a first-round loss to […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reguleringsowerheid vir Gesondheidsprodukte, SAHPRA, het die Cobas MPXV-toets vir M-pokke goedgekeur na ‘n blitsige nege dae lange hersiening met behulp van die Afrika-medisyne regulatoriese harmoniseringsproses. Die goedkeuring, wat ook staatgemaak het op die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie se noodgebruikslys, vergroot Suid-Afrika se diagnostiese kapasiteit vir vroeë opsporing en tydige behandeling, asook die voorkoming van die […]
# The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has approved the Cobas MPXV test for M-pox after a fast nine-day review using the African medicines regulatory harmonisation process. The approval, which also relied on the World Health Organisation emergency use listing, expands South Africa’s diagnostic capacity for early detection, timely treatment, and prevent the virus […]
# Statistics South Africa reports a sharp rise in business liquidations, with July seeing a 16.5-percent increase compared to the same month last year. Of the 155 liquidations recorded, 72 were companies and 83 were close corporations, including 14 compulsory and 141 voluntary closures. Stats SA’s Onica Mushwana says over the first seven months of […]
# Sokker: Fenerbahçe het een van die wêreld se mees bekroonde hoofafrigters, José Mourinho, afgedank na slegs twee ligawedstryde die seisoen. Dit volg nadat die Turkse klub Woensdag uit die Kampioeneliga geskakel is toe hulle teen Benfica verloor het in ‘n kwalifiseringswedstryd. Die Portugees, wat beroemde spanne soos Real Madrid, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea […]
