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When they talk about Afrikaans, they very rarely talk about spelling or grammar. They talk about their father’s voice. They talk about their mother’s advice. They talk about the first prayer they learned as children, about the songs that were sung in school and about the stories that were told at night around the table.
Argentina were beaten 1-0 in the final by Spain in what has been rumoured to be Lionel Messi’s final World Cup game.Published On 21 Jul 202621 Jul 2026After what may have been his final World Cup match, Lionel Messi was in tears on the field on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, ruing a missed chance to win a second consecutive title for Argentina.Messi, without hinting whether his World Cup career was officially through, congratulated Spain, who beat Argentina 1-0 in the final, and said the memories would last, in an Instagram post on Monday evening.Recommended Stories list of 4…
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THE time to search for people who have thrown away AIDS drugs in KwaZulu-Natal has been extended as it turns out that there are more than 100 000 people who do not collect the drugs in the province.The search for those who dumped the drugs will continue until December.This was announced by the Minister of Health, Ms. Nomagugu Simelane, when she presented the department’s budget for this year in the KwaZulu-Natal Legislative Assembly, on Friday.Ms Simelane said that although they were able to find a large number of people during the campaign, there are still too many people who do…
Pres. Donald Trump (Photo: Kent Nishimura/AFP) The USA’s pres. Donald Trump has warned Iran that it will bear heavy consequences for every American soldier who dies in the Middle Eastern conflict. The US launched renewed strikes against Iran on Monday after the deaths of at least three US soldiers in the past few days. According to the Iranian military, it targeted US assets in Kuwait, after the Revolutionary Guard earlier claimed it had attacked sites in Jordan, Bahrain and Syria. Jordan’s military said its air defenses shot down three Iranian missiles targeting the kingdom, with no injuries or damage reported.…
THABO Ntokozo Nzimande, who was found guilty of murdering and beheading his 80-year-old grandmother, told the Durban High Court on Friday that he still can’t believe that the person he loved the most is gone.Acting Judge Mpumelelo Sibisi found that there was no evidence to show that someone else could have killed the old woman, Beatrice DeLange, in the house where she and Nzimande lived, in Pinetown.”The story told by the defendant that he does not know how the deceased was killed is a lie,” said Judge Sibisi.The judge accepted the testimony of John Ngcobo, who is Nzimande’s uncle, saying…
Nomonde Zondi|Published 17 hours agoTHE MASTERPIECE of the plot to hijack a truck containing R700 000 worth of meat from a Chester butchery, in an incident in which a police officer of the Thekwini Municipality was killed, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Durban High Court on Wednesday.In this incident that happened on July 20, 2023, Captain Errol George Ogle was shot dead.Evidence before the court revealed that before the incident, Mlungisi Phakamani Mpanza (33) and Mzomuhle Lawrence Gamede (41), had just been fired from Chester following their involvement in an illegal strike.Driven by frustration, they hijacked one of…
ALTHOUGH Bhinca President Ngizwe Mchunu has apologized to the EFF leader, Mr. Julius Malema, for making statements that damage his reputation, the battle is not over as the court will now listen to the evidence that will be presented orally in this dispute.In the latest case in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, Malema now wants Mchunu to be sentenced to six months in prison directly for contempt of court.Between May 12 and June 18, Malema appeared in court urgently four different times with the aim of stopping Mchunu accusing him of defaming his name.Mchunu finally apologized for tarnishing Malema’s name…
Sridhar Vembu has clearly said in its latest social media post that China has increased its stature by giving its large language models to the world. India will also have to revive its same vision. Vembu also remembered the time when technology was shared with poor countries for free.Zoho Founder Sridhar Vembu has expressed some things very frankly in his latest social media post. He has written that by giving its best and advanced LLMs i.e. big AI models to the world for free, China has greatly increased its stature in global affairs. There is a big lesson for India…
Tariffs apply to Canadian wine, hockey sticks, cement, and other products, sparking fears of escalating trade tensions.Published On 21 Jul 202621 Jul 2026US President Donald Trump will impose new 50 percent tariffs on many Canadian goods, claiming “discriminatory treatment” by Ottawa against US alcohol, automobile and dairy products.The tariffs, ordered by Trump on Monday, will take effect in 30 days and cover a range of items, including wine, hockey sticks, and cement, according to a White House fact sheet.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTrump, who saw many of his tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this…