# Transnet will make a net payment of 4.3-billion-rand to Sasol before 30 June. This follows a settlement reached between the two companies ending years of legal battles. The settlement includes a High Court ruling from June 2024, which ordered Transnet to pay 3.9-billion-rand for pipeline tariff breaches. Another pending claim by Transnet against Sasol […]
# Famous author Salman Rushdie is pleased with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022. Hadi Matar was sentenced after being convicted of attempted murder and assault. Video footage played during the trial showed Matar rushing onto […]
# The DA’s Human Settlements spokesperson, Luyolo Mphithi, has raised concerns over the increasing involvement of organised crime syndicates in land invasions. Mphithi announced the party’s intention to amend the Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act to address this issue. He told Newzroom Afrika that the proposed changes aim to halt […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het die regering se verbintenis tot infrastruktuurgedrewe ekonomiese herstel herbevestig tydens die 2025 Simposium oor Volhoubare Infrastruktuurontwikkeling in Kaapstad. Hy het meer as 200 befondsde projekte in die jongste Konstruksieboek aangekondig, asook planne om 31 openbare eiendomme vir belegging vry te stel, om 165-duisend werksgeleenthede […]
# Sokker: Liverpool se voorsitter, Tom Werner, sê hy is reeds besig om die span te verbeter vir volgende seisoen, al het hulle die Premierliga-titel op ‘n drafstap verower. Die Rooies sal vandag die beker in Liverpool vertoon, met derduisende wat na verwagting langs die strate sal toekyk. Jeremie Frimpong finaliseer sy skuif vanaf Bayer […]
# The African Congress for Transformation says the Eastern Cape government is failing learners in Tsomo by not paying scholar transport providers since November last year. They demand urgent payment and a full audit of the scholar transport programme. ACT’s Mohau Khumalo says this is not just incompetence but a political failure that’s leaving children […]
# Soccer: Liverpool chairperson Tom Werner says he is already working on improving the team for next season despite romping to the Premier League title. The Reds will parade the trophy through Liverpool today with tens of thousands expected to line the streets. Jeremie Frimpong is finalising his move to Anfield from Bayer Leverkusen as […]
# Rugby: Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu van die Stormers en Cameron Hanekom en Wilco Louw van die Bulle is vereer vir hul volgehoue goeie spelpeil gedurende die seisoen en as die drie benoemings aangewys vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Verenigde Rugbykampioenskaps-toekenning as Speler van die Seisoen. Stemming het Vrydag gesluit met die afrigtingspanne van die Springbokke en die vier […]
# Public Works minister Dean Macpherson has reaffirmed government’s commitment to infrastructure-driven economic recovery at the 2025 Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium in Cape Town. He announced over 200 funded projects in the latest Construction Book, as well as plans to release 31 public properties for investment, targeting 165-thousand job opportunities. He stressed that infrastructure must […]
