
Ghana challenges Partey’s visa denial in court
Ghana’s government files for a review of Canada’s refusal to grant midfielder Thomas Partey a visa, with the case due to be heard by a Canadian court.
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Ghana’s government files for a review of Canada’s refusal to grant midfielder Thomas Partey a visa, with the case due to be heard by a Canadian court.

Fans in the US, Canada and Mexico are spending big on tickets, transport and accommodation – is it worth it?
Tributes continue to pour in worldwide for South African jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim, who died at the age of 91, leaving behind a legacy spanning seven decades of music, activism, and cultural diplomacy.
One of Johannesburg’s oldest public schools is quietly attempting something few institutions in the city still believe is possible – acquiring and restoring neglected houses as part of a broader effort to revive historic Kensington, one of Johannesburg’s oldest gateway suburbs to the inner city.
As South Africa marks Youth Month, there is one statistic that should stop us in our tracks. Nearly one in five unemployed young people are no longer looking for work, write Lauren Graham, Ariane De Lannoy and Oliver Meth.

The move comes just a couple of weeks before Sara Cox takes over the show in July.
Two Limpopo police officers have been handed suspended prison sentences after pleading guilty to breaking into a police storeroom and attempting to steal confiscated cigarettes
Young South Africans face socioeconomic challenges marked by high unemployment, ineffective education, and rising social tensions, necessitating urgent systemic change to ensure a hopeful future.

South Africans have bounced back from a tournament-opening defeat before, winger points out

A man is bailed after being arrested in the case of a woman who was pushed into a road in 2017.

The Minister and the National Commissioner of Correctional Services have been ordered to repay at least R1.7 million to the company that runs the private, maximum-security Mangaung Correctional Centre, from which rapist and murderer Thabo Bester escaped in May 2022, GroundUp reports.

The NEET exam had earlier been scrapped over allegations of a paper leak, sparking massive protests.
On a tumultuous World Cup day, Tunisia parts ways with coach Sabri Lamouchi after a devastating loss, while Iran’s squad grapples with US travel issues amid ‘restrictions’.
Amahle Jaxa has announced a temporary break from social media after facing backlash and alleged death threats over her views on the upcoming March and March movement.

Tamika and Sofia-Ann were cut off by the tide and pulled under water by the waves at Abergele.

Hostile states are increasingly using proxies to carry out attacks in Britain following the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Sir Richard Moore says.

Thanks to steadily declining oil prices and a strengthening rand, which was trading at about R16.20 to the US dollar at the time of writing, South African motorists can look forward to paying less at the pumps in July
Doubts swirled around the US-Iran interim deal to end the war in the Middle East as shippers said it could take weeks for confidence to return after any reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and fundamental questions remained unanswered

Iran fight back to draw 2-2 with New Zealand, Uruguay held by Saudi Arabia

Eight people have died in a collision between a minibus taxi and a truck on the N4 toll road near Waterval Onder in Mpumalanga