# Volkswagen, Europa se grootste motorvervaardiger, oorweeg dit om ‘n monteeraanleg in Egipte te vestig. Die besturende direkteur vir die VW-groep in Afrika, Martina Biene, het aan Engineering News gesê dit is deel van ‘n plan om nuwe Afrika-markte te ontgin terwyl die aanvraag in Europa afneem. Volkswagen kan wel ‘n monteeraanleg vestig deur bestaande […]
# Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says a US proposal for a nuclear agreement was against the national interest, amid sharp differences over whether Tehran can continue to enrich uranium. The longtime foes have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new accord to replace the deal with major powers […]
# Around 20-thousand people were evacuated from central Cologne after three unexploded World War Two bombs were found, the biggest such operation in the German city since the end of the war. Bomb squad technicians were planning to defuse the three American explosives, two weighing a thousand kilograms and one 500 kilograms, which were found […]
# Vietnamese police arrested administrators of a YouTube channel with two-million subscribers for allegedly spreading false information about state officials. Rights campaigners say the government in one-party Vietnam has in recent years stepped up a crackdown on civil society and weaponised the law to silence critics, especially people posting on social media. Human Rights Watch […]
# Die Biervereniging van Suid-Afrika waarsku dat hoë aksynsbelasting verbruikers na onwettige alkohol dryf. Tydens die 2025 Afrika-brouery konferensie het die uitvoerende hoof van BASA, Charlene Louw, dringende belastingverligting versoek, en daarop gewys dat 38-persent van die prys van bier aan belasting afgestaan word. Sy het die belangrike ekonomiese rol van bier beklemtoon, insluitend die […]
# ActionSA doen ‘n beroep op die polisie om die veiligheid van kinders onmiddellik voor op te stel. Die party vra vir vinnige, gekoördineerde optrede op aanmeldings van vermiste kinders, en om gespesialiseerde kinderbeskermings- en geslagsgeweld-ondersoekeenhede weer in te stel. Die Gautengse polisie het ‘n klopjag na verdagtes van stapel gestuur nadat die 14-jarige Lukhona […]
# Cricket: Virat Kohli said it was as much for the fans after he finally won the IPL at his 18th attempt, with Bengaluru’s ecstatic supporters preparing to welcome home their hero at a victory parade. Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Punjab Kings by six runs in a roller-coaster IPL final yesterday. The 36-year-old Kohli, the […]
# China has slammed comments made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the world will never forget the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as an attack on China. Foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian says Rubio’s statements maliciously distort historical facts, deliberately attack China’s political system and developmental path, and seriously interfere in China’s internal […]
# ‘n Voormalige finansiële beampte van Delmas Laerskool, Larrisa Vern, is tot tien jaar tronkstraf gevonnis nadat sy skuldig gepleit het op 94 aanklagte van bedrog en 555 aanklagte van geldwassery. Die Valke het Vern ondersoek nadat ‘n fluitjieblaser verdagte bonusbetalings aangemeld het. Die skool het byna 2,8-miljoen-rand tussen 2022 en 2024 verloor weens Vern […]
