
German carmakers in crosshairs of latest Trump tariff salvo
US president hikes tariffs on imported European cars to 25% from 15% levy previously agreed
THURSDAY, 07 MAY 2026, 05:01

US president hikes tariffs on imported European cars to 25% from 15% levy previously agreed
Former French model Juliette G says it took her years to make sense of how she ended up in a New York bedroom with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
This trans-Neptunian object orbits the sun at roughly the same distance as Pluto

National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams has handed himself over to police after authorities issued a warrant for his arrest on Tuesday.

The Dolls say the decision was “heartbreaking” but add that the European shows will go ahead as planned.

The fire broke out at the former East London Central Synagogue on Tuesday morning.
Thulasizwe Gasa, who was employed by a contractor, was gunned down inside the Shalazile informal settlement, about 30m from the Shalazile microgrid plant in the early hours on Saturday.
Two cases of the deadly hantavirus have been confirmed, and five more are suspectedamong people who were on a luxury cruise ship now held in the Atlantic near Cape Verde, the World Health Organization said in its most detailed update on the outbreak.
A Russian overnight missile and drone attack on gas production facilities in Ukraine’s Poltava and Kharkiv regions killed five people, including two rescue workers, while cutting gas supplies to thousands, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.
Thailand on Tuesday unilaterally terminated a longstanding agreement with Cambodia to work towards joint offshore energy exploration, defying calls from its neighbour to stay the course on the 25-year-old pact.
President Lai Ching-te arrived home on Tuesday from Eswatini saying Taiwan would not give in to pressure, having taken a circuitous route over the southern part of the Indian Ocean to skirt airspace controlled by close friends of China.

A new University of Cape Town study has found elevated mortality among former asbestos miners in South Africa, highlighting the long-term health consequences of asbestos exposure decades after mining ended

Residents say contributions for transformer were meant to help meet Eskom requirements to restore electricity

When actor Unathi Mkhize steps onto the set of his cover shoot on a chilly autumn morning, a day after the Easter long weekend, his glow lights up the room.
Lai Ching-te says Taiwan will not give in to Chinese pressure after Eswatini visit

The SAPS political killings task team has called on National Coloured Congress MP Fadiel Adams to present himself at his nearest police station

Tayler Scott is the only active South African-born player in US professional baseball, proudly keeping the nation’s MLB dreams alive.
An oversight inspection led by the Friends of the Louisa Prince Library uncovered a range of critical issues, pointing to what they described as incomplete and substandard work.

The Khampepe commission of inquiry probing efforts to stall the investigation and prosecution of apartheid-era perpetrator, continues in Newtown, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.

England midfielder Phil Foden reaches an agreement in principle over a new four-year deal at Manchester City.