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FORMER coach of Kaizer Chiefs, Stuart Baxter, has suggested local legend Benni McCarthy as one of the best candidates to coach the team.At the moment Makhosi is managed by Cedric Kaze and Khali Ben Youssef, following the departure of Nasreddine Nabi in October last year.Baxter, who coached the Chiefs from 2012 to 2015, and returned from 2021 to 2022, sees McCarthy as being able to withstand the pressure of coaching this big team.Amakhosi have failed to hold the ball this season and have fallen behind in the race for the Betway Premiership league title. This team lost four games in…
The slimming of the chances of joining the Bafana Bafana squad heading for the World Cup in June, is not on the mind of the Mamelodi Sundowns stopper, Grant Kekana, but we are suffering from the feeling of indebtedness to this team from Chloorkop for what happened in the final of the Caf Champions League last season. Kekana is one of the players who are used to being left out of Bafana since he is among the top scorers in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Ivory Coast in 2023.There are less than three months left before Bafana start…
Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: STR/AFP) The Iranian ambassador on Wednesday offered safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for South African cargoes, and urged all Brics countries to insist on an end to American-Israeli “aggression”. South Africa’s ties with Iran are a sticking point in its relationship with the US, which together with Israel started the Middle Eastern conflict almost three weeks ago. Mansour Shakib Mehr, Iran’s ambassador to South Africa, praised South Africa for its condemnation of the attack and its decision to maintain ties with Iran despite pressure from the US. “We have a very close dialogue,” he…
Three suspects were shot and killed during a high-speed chase with the Hawk Tactical Operations Management Team in the early hours of Thursday, Crystal Park, Benoni.The members received information about the suspects who were planning to hijack a car and kidnap a person on Elm road. At around 20:30, members of the TOMS Hawks saw a car, a silver gray Opel Astra shortly after they took the female victim out of her Fiat and put her in their car.There was a high-speed chase and the suspects opened fire at the hawk. The suspect’s car swerved and hit a side barrier…
Questions raised over US knowledge of Israeli plans to strike key Iranian gasfield as Gulf region’s energy infrastructure becomes target for attack.Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026United States President Donald Trump has tried to distance the US from Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield, describing his Israeli allies as having “violently lashed out” at the facility and promising that it would not reoccur if Tehran refrains from attacking Qatar.Trump said the US had “nothing to do” with the strike on the offshore gasfield facilities in Iran’s Bushehr province on Wednesday, which was followed by Iran pledging to strike…
Matome Chiloane, Gauteng MEC of Education. (Photo: Provided)The Gauteng Department of Education has appointed a law firm to conduct an independent investigation following the death of a ten-year-old boy at a school in Tembisa.Milton Neo Mokgoatsane, a gr. 5 learner from Reagile Primary School in Winnie Mandela, died on 18 February after a goal cage fell on him.It was earlier reported that a group of learners were playing around the goal cage on a soccer field at the school when a goal post allegedly fell on the boy, resulting in fatal injuries.Matome Chiloane, the MEC for education in Gauteng, officially…
The National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Fannie Masemola, also pressed the suspended Minister of Police, Mr. Senzo Mchunu, when he appeared before the Parliamentary committee.Masemola made allegations that Mchunu ordered the disbanding of the police team investigating the murder of politicians in KwaZulu-Natal because he wanted to block the investigation of the police who were investigating a businessman facing a series of crimes, Mr. Vusumuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.Masemola said that the people who cooperated with Chunu in the attempts to stop Matlala’s investigation were the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya, and Mr. Brown Mogotsi.”If you look closely…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has suggested that AI tokens be given to engineers as an incentive in addition to their salary. These are the units of language of AI, which are used instead of getting work done by AI. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Nvidia, one of the world’s leading companies, and its CEO Jensen Huang are being discussed a lot. He has given the idea of AI Tokens to connect the top engineers of the industry with him. Speaking at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose, California, Jensen Huang suggested giving engineers an annual token budget equal to about…
President @CyrilRamaphosa joins the people of this country in congratulating Dr Nyaweleni Tshifularo and his team for successfully separating conjoined twins at Mankweng Hospital, Limpopo on January 28, 2026.Ramaphosa expressed his gratitude to this amazing team led by Professor Tshifularo, who gave their time and expertise to face this difficult challenge.This project is a milestone in Limpopo and in the public health sector of South Africa. This is the first time in South Africa, a rural hospital has done such a great job.The most exciting thing is that the children were completely separated and are reported to be in satisfactory…
While taps in large parts of De Aar in the Northern Cape have been running dry intermittently for several years, the Emthanjeni municipality did not spend a single cent of its capital budget on water management in the first half of the financial year.