The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has again shifted the starting date for the 2020/2021 continental club competitions with the Champions League start pushed back. The Champions League and Confederation Cup schedules have been changed a second time with midweek fixtures reintroduced to the competitions. Champions League dates altered again Caf officials confirmed on Tuesday […]
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Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk made a winning return to action, as he comfortably romped home at the Gala dei Castelli at the Municipal Stadium in Bellinzona, Switzerland, on Tuesday. The 28-year-old has been out of action for the best part of three years since sustaining a torn ligament in 2017. Wayde van Niekerk […]
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Cricket South Africa (CSA) has apologised to insurance giant Momentum, following a series of Tweets made by one of the sports body’s board members. The company announced earlier in the week that it would not renew its partnership with CSA when the current deal entered between the two parties ends in April 2021. In making […]
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SA Rugby has confirmed the start date for the local rugby season, and also launched a one-off exhibition match that will mark the return of the game within South African shores. No competitive rugby action has been possible in the country since March, when a national lockdown was first declared. The hiatus in action meant […]
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The robbery occurred earlier this month at the Dordrecht Post Office. A South African Post Office branch. Picture: @PostofficeSa/Twitter CAPE TOWN – The Eastern Cape’s Safety and Liaison MEC wants justice after a Post Office manager was accused of masterminding a robbery. The postmaster appeared in Dordrecht Magistrates Court this week alongside four co-accused for […]
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Spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said that the money was desperately needed to turn around the parastatal’s financial troubles. FILE: Eskom’s Megawatt Park offices in Sunninghill. Picture: EWN. JOHANNESBURG – Eskom said that municipalities managed to recover about 90% of the money that customers owed them for bulk electricity supply but a large amount of that money […]
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Drugs disguised as toilet seats, toys worth nearly R1m seized at OR Tambo Int’l Police on Wednesday said drugs worth about R1 million were seized at the airport’s cargo section on Monday and Tuesday. Police this week seize drugs worth R1 million at OR Tambo International Airport’s cargo section declared as artwork, teabags, baby toys, […]
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The nation has been through months of varying stages of lockdown, mass job losses and an increase in the number of vulnerable people depending on government for the bare minimum to get by. Food parcels are packaged at a food storage facility in Springs, Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg on 21 May 2020. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN […]
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This article first appeared on GroundUp, by Buziwe Nocuze. About 700 villagers in Khwanyana outside Port St Johns share two 5,000-litre water tanks for 14 days at a time. Alternative water supplies are expensive and far away to access. The ward councillor says he has done all he can but he knows people are suffering. […]
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The Presidency confirmed in statement that the address is scheduled to start at 7pm tonight. President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: GCIS. JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa will address South Africans on Wednesday night on developments in the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Presidency confirmed in a statement that the address is scheduled to start […]
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