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Chelsea’s title race is done – Hayes
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes believes the race for the Women’s Super League title is “done” after her side were beaten 4-3 at Liverpool on Wednesday.
THURSDAY, 02 MAY 2024, 00:03
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Chelsea manager Emma Hayes believes the race for the Women’s Super League title is “done” after her side were beaten 4-3 at Liverpool on Wednesday.
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Five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave has warned paying prize money to athletics gold medallists at Paris 2024 will divide athletes.
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Top US diplomat says efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza must be accelerated and sustained as famine looms.
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South Africa
City of Jo’burg EMS confirms that the underground fire along the M1 highway has been contained.
South Africa
The three passengers died on the scene.
South Africa
Violence against women and children remains a challenge in the country.
South Africa
Bishop Edwin Pockpass says the humanitarian crisis in Palestine is escalating.
World
From New York — to Illinois — to Los Angeles — encampments in support of Palestinians dot campuses across the country.And over the last couple of days the tension has only increased as police have intervened on several campuses, including Columbia University, UCLA and the University of Texas. Hundreds of protestors have been arrested.Pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses are...
World
The people behind the online scams you see might be the victim of a scam themselves. Tens of thousands of people have been trafficked into remote, Southeast Asian compounds and forced to scam others.
World
Israeli settlers tried to block a new aid route into Gaza. The incident was a setback for Blinken, who was trying to highlight progress in getting Palestinians food and supplies to stave off famine.
World
President Gustavo Petro announced his country will break diplomatic ties with Israel Thursday over its actions in Gaza. “If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we are not going to let it die,” he said.
Africa
Some of the royal artefacts were stolen by British colonisers during the 19th Century Anglo-Ashanti war.
Africa
Helicopters have been deployed to evacuate tourists trapped in the famous game reserve.
Africa
Nigeria raises salaries for government workers to help them cope with the cost-of-living crisis.
Africa
Zimbabwean father Tendai Sibanda is demanding more than R3 million in damages after Ethiopian Airlines blocked his underage son from boarding a flight from Johannesburg to Egypt, where he was supposed to play in a tennis tournament.
Business
Business
The US central bank has left interest rates unchanged again, noting a “lack of further progress” toward lowering inflation.
Business
The firm has set aside about $11bn to address claims its talc products caused cancer.
Business
In South Africa, about 25% of the price paid at the pump goes directly to taxes.
Politics
ActionSA says the unemployment problem is persisting in Northern Cape.
Politics
Mashatile has raised concerns about the unemployment rate in SA.
Politics
IFP leader Velenkosi Hlabisa says that South Africans do not have much to celebrate.
Politics
Maimane says his party’s priority is to ensure that there is a person with a job in every home.
Sport
Watch the closing moments as seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan suffers a shock defeat by Stuart Bingham in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship.
Sport
Orlando Pirates beat Cape Town City 2-0 in a PSL fixture thanks to a brace from Tshegofatso Mabasa. It was also a historic victory
Sport
A thrilling Women’s Super League title race is reaching boiling point – but who will be triumphant at the end of the season?
Sport
Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone regrets prematurely informing Ayrton Senna’s brother the three-time world champion had died after his crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix telling AFP it caused “unnecessary trouble.”
Education
The president has largely left it to aides to respond to anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country, but he is planning a speech next week at an event sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Education
Demonstrators have raised Palestinian flags in place of American flags on several campus, and drawn an angry response.
Education
In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.
Education
Administrators said in an email on Wednesday that all classes were canceled and that police officers would remain stationed throughout campus.
Lifestyle
Regardless of public opinion on AKA and Anele Tembe’s toxic romance, ‘When Love Kills’ hits home in a country with the highest rate of GBV.
Lifestyle
Using a bark collar can effectively train your dog to reduce excessive barking by delivering a gentle, corrective stimulus…
Lifestyle
‘When Love Kills’ author Melinda Ferguson has confirmed reports that Moses Tembe, the father of Anele Tembe, contributed to her book.
Lifestyle
Mzansi Eats are uniquely South African things like peppermint crisp. What about some uniquely local flavours, like milk tart and chutney?
Entertainment
Just days after being released on bail for allegedly looting millions of rands from a university, celebrity bodyguard Anwar Khan was back on the social scene guarding American R&B star Joe Thomas who performed in SA at the weekend.
Entertainment
Entertainment
The flamboyant businesswoman is accused of fraud…
Entertainment
Tito Mboweni has previously hit back at criticism of his fashion sense, especially his scruffed shoes which he said are expensive.
Science/Tech
Amidst tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.
Science/Tech
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told employees Wednesday that it is blocking access to ChatGPT on agency-issued laptops to “protect our data from security threats associated with use of ChatGPT,” 404 Media reported Wednesday. From the report: “NARA will block access to commercial ChatGPT on NARANet [an internal network] and on NARA issued laptops, tablets, desktop...
Science/Tech
Microsoft has confirmed that the April 2024 Windows security updates break VPN connections across client and server platforms. From a report: The company explains on the Windows health dashboard that “Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update or the April 2024 non-security preview update.” “We are investigating user reports, and we will...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shares a report: Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data, it’s still unclear how many Americans were impacted by the cyberattack. Last month, Andrew Witty, the CEO of Change Healthcare’s parent company UnitedHealth Group, said that the stolen files include the personal health information of “a substantial...
Motoring
Motoring
Speculation has been rife that Newey could join either Ferrari or Aston Martin.
Motoring
Heavily reworked version of the XUV 300 will most likely come to South Africa this year, however at present, no confirmation has been made.
Motoring
RC16 machine clocks 345 laps around Jerez during long day of experimentation.
Health
The outbreak linked to shelled organic walnuts distributed by Gibson Farms has sickened 12 people and hospitalized seven in California and Washington State, federal officials said.
Health
A data analytics firm has helped big health insurers cut payments to doctors, raising concerns about possible price fixing.
Health
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.
Health
Women at risk for extreme high blood pressure should take a daily baby aspirin. But their doctors don’t always tell them.
Nature
Going for a dip in the Seine on a hot summer’s day has been the pipedream of many a Parisian since swimming in the river was formally banned a century ago.
Nature
In 2023, South Africa’s worst year of load shedding, the Western Cape economy is estimated to have lost R12.8 billion, says Premier Alan Winde.
Nature
G7 energy ministers are close to committing to a common target of shutting down their coal-fired power plants “in the first half of the 2030s”, a source told AFP Monday.
Nature
Business has been working with government and Eskom to solve the energy crisis, and details of these engagements are accessible, writes James Mackay.