# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is devastated and enraged by the brutal assassination of the Solidarity Action Committee Collective and Potch4Palestine leader, Mokoena Letsie. Letsie was shot and killed in a targeted hit with 17 bullets in Potchefstroom, North West yesterday. GIWUSA leader, Mametlwe Sebei demands that police launch a priority […]
# At least 16 learners have died and over 70 have been injured when a fire broke out in a dormitory at the Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil, Kenya, in the early hours of this morning. The building was housing 220 learners. Police say search and rescue operations are continuing, with the death toll likely […]
# Tennis: Die driemalige kampioen, Novak Djokovic, sê die Franse Ope se hitte-reëls moet verander. Die Serwiër het gistermiddag teen die plaaslike speler Valentin Royer gespeel terwyl die temperatuur in Parys bo 30-grade Celsius was. Djokovic stel voor Roland Garros moet spel staak tydens die dag, soos by die Australiese Ope, of wedstryde moet later […]
# Rugby: Three South African teams are involved in the quarterfinals of the United Rugby Championship this weekend. The Bulls welcome Irish outfit Munster to Loftus at one o’clock on Saturday afternoon, followed by the match between the Stormers en Cardiff in Cape Town at 3.30. The Lions are away to Leinster in Ireland at […]
# The City of Cape Town has opened supplementary public participation on amendments to its 2026/2027 budget. This follows a Western Cape High Court ruling, which declared the metro’s property value-based fixed charges for cleaning levy and water and sanitation unlawful. A key effect of the judgment is that Cape Town must revert to using […]
# Tennis: Three-time champion Novak Djokovic believes the French Open’s heat rules need to be changed. The Serb played local player Valentin Royer in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, as Paris experienced temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. Djokovic has suggested that Roland Garros could either suspend play during the day, like at the Australian […]
# Gauteng se LUR vir Menslike Nedersettings, Tasneem Motara, het huise oorhandig aan begunstigdes in Sokhulumi, Tshwane. Dis deel van pogings om die lewering van behuising te versnel, vertragings op te klaar en mense se waardigheid te herstel deur volhoubare nedersettings. Die departement se woordvoerder, Terry-Ann van Eck, sê die Sokhulumi-projek sal na verwagting 265 […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare is bekommerd oor die meer as elf-miljard-rand wat provinsiale Gesondheidsdepartemente aan die Nasionale Gesondheids-laboratoriumdiens skuld. KwaZulu-Natal skuld die meeste, naamlik net meer as 4,8-miljard-rand, gevolg deur Gauteng met 3,2-miljard en die Oos-Kaap met meer as 1,1-miljard. Claude Naicker van die vakbond sê die stygende skuldkrisis belemmer die diens se vermoë […]
# Die ANC in Kaapstad sê hy is bekommerd omdat die metro en speaker van die raad voortgaan om virtuele raadsvergaderings te hou. Die laaste fisiese raadsvergadering was byna ʼn jaar gelede. Judy-Ann Stevens van die ANC sê virtuele vergaderings verswak robuuste debat, beperk aanspreeklikheid en maak volgens haar dit makliker vir die DA-administrasie om opposisie-deelname […]
