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The Stormers are on a play-off footing as they enter their final sequence of United Rugby Championship games, starting tonight in Newport, where they tackle the Dragons (8.35pm kick-off, SA time).

The Bulls could have been second on the United Rugby Championship log by now had they beaten Munster, but it’s no use crying over spilt milk.

Cape Town Spurs coach Ernst Middendorp is hoping against hope that his relegation-doomed side will avoid the axe this season.

Stellenbosch FC were strangely out of kilter against a stubborn AmaZulu side in a midweek encounter, but coach Steve Barker hopes to restore the potency of his side’s attack against Moroka Swallows tomorrow.

After being forced to play catch-up for the past month, Manchester City have the chance to exert some added pressure on Arsenal in the Premier League title race when they kick off the weekend’s action at Fulham tomorrow.

Just like Drake and Kendrick Lamar, Asenathi Ntlabakanye has a beef to settle.

FOOD BRANDS group RFG Holdings expects its interim earnings to rise as much as 23%. In a trading statement for the six months ended March 31 yesterday, the group said its headline earnings were likely to rise to between 18% and 23% higher than the R216.8 million reported for the prior corresponding period. Earnings per share were likely to be 83.3 cents, or between 18% to 23% higher, at 98.3c to 1

Washington: Donald Trump’s youngest son, who is still at high school and largely shielded from the public eye, will debut on the political stage in July as a delegate at the Republican Party convention.

On April 15, 2023, the lives of millions of people in Sudan were ripped apart. In the usually peaceful capital city of Khartoum, as families celebrated the final days of Ramadaan, fierce street battles broke out between two former allies – the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Bodies piled high in the streets, markets and hospitals burned, and indiscriminate shelling...

SHARES in rapidly expanding South African fintech company, Lesaka Technologies, jumped 12.4% in afternoon trade on the JSE yesterday after the company reported narrow losses on the back of a 9% surge in revenues for the quarter to the end of March. Lesaka has made numerous acquisitions in the past year as it seeks to consolidate its foothold in the fintech and payments business across Southern...

THE FUEL RETAILERS Association of South Africa (FRA) has said that the rate at which oil companies were exiting South Africa was alarming, following the news that Shell would leave in the wake of Chevron and Engen.

ECONOMIC growth in South Africa will survive by a whisker from falling into contraction in the first quarter of 2024 after manufacturing output unexpectedly plunged to its lowest in two years on an annual basis.

THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development yesterday said that preliminary investigations indicate that the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on two dairy farms in the Eastern Cape town of Humansdorp was a new infection.

JSE-listed paper company Sappi has shrugged off its first-quarter loss as its second-quarter to March performance came in slightly better than expected.

PAN AFRICAN Resources is well on course for a stronger financial performance this year, after lifting its output guidance and projecting a lowering of its production costs, amid strengthening prices of the yellow metal.

San Francisco: TikTok yesterday said it would begin labelling AI-generated content automatically from several platforms, including OpenAI’s Dall-E and the company’s own tools and generators.

It is a riveting thriller. Read this book if you like creepy settings and plot twists. As SA sensation Tyla would say: What the heck!

ONLINE streaming giant Netflix says it is investing in Africa to help new talent emerge and to tell stories that make an impact locally, but also resonate with audiences abroad. Well-crafted local stories are “a major opportunity”, Netflix’s Africa and Middle East content vice president Ben Amadasun said, on the sidelines of the Forbes Under-30 Summit Africa in the Botswana capital Gaborone this...

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A SOCIAL worker supporting the families of construction workers still buried beneath the rubble at the site of the collapsed apartment building in George has spoken of the wide-scale trauma being witnessed.

THE son of anti-apartheid activist Imam Abdullah Haron, Professor Muhammed Haron says he got involved in politics to pursue social justice.

TOP EXECUTIVES at KAL Group reckon that economic conditions in South Africa are unlikely to improve in the short-term outlook, despite the company upping its interim dividend against the backdrop of a 7% half-year surge in headline earnings per share (Heps).

Convicted murderer Ricardo Jacobs will serve 20 years behind bars for killing of his girlfriend, Samantha May, by stabbing her 42 times in front of her child.

COMMUNITIES on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape and environmental organisations are bracing to head back to court to defend a 2022 high court judgment which had found in their favour, setting aside Shell’s exploration right to explore for oil and gas in the area.

Cavin Johnson is hopeful that Ranga Chivaviro’s brace against TS Galaxy is the beginning of a goalscoring spree for the striker, who is yet to live up to his promise with Kaizer Chiefs.

JANNES Kirsten has had an intriguing past few years.

Cape Town Spurs coach Ernst Middendorp has released the shackles of his players and encouraged them to enjoy the rest of the season as they chase a near-impossible race to avoid relegation from the top flight.

The brotherly bond South Africa’s Nkosi Ndebele and the Democratic Republic of Congo-born Eliezer Kubanza share is something to be admired and appreciated.

The Stormers pride themselves on being adaptable and being able to change their game plan on the fly if things are not going their way during a match.

There is a childhood memory etched on Elroy Gelant’s mind that helps propel him to keep giving his best as an athlete, even now deep into the twilight of what has been a very successful career.