# Die direkteur van Openbare Vervolging in KwaZulu-Natal, Elaine Harrison, sê die ineenstorting van die taakspan vir politieke moorde hou ‘n ernstige risiko in dat destabilisering tot buite die provinsie kan uitbrei. Harrison het by die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek in Pretoria getuig die eenheid is noodsaaklik om polities-gemotiveerde misdade wat tydens verkiesings toeneem, te beperk. […]
# Die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, het sy voorneme bevestig om uit die regering van nasionale eenheid te onttrek, indien die adjunkpresident van die PA, Kenny Kunene, nie heraangestel word as die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Vervoer in Johannesburg nie. McKenzie het die burgemeester van Johannesburg, Dada Morero, tot Dinsdag tyd gegee om […]
# EU countries kicked off their first talks on proposals to build a “wall” of anti-drone defences, after air incursions from Russia rattled eastern members. Focus has sharpened in recent days on the threat to Europe’s airspace as unidentified drones have shut airports in Denmark. EU chief Ursula von der Leyen made a first call […]
# A new open letter signed by more than a thousand actors has denounced “anti-Semitic” calls to boycott some Israeli film institutions over the war in Gaza, underlining growing tensions in the entertainment world. The letter accused the more than 8-thousand people who have backed a boycott, including stars Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix, of […]
# Die LUR vir Mobiliteit in die Wes-Kaap, Isaac Sileku, sê sedert die opskorting van sommige minibustaxiroetes in Kaapstad, werk alternatiewe vervoerdienste doeltreffend en die betrokke roetes is rustig. Verskeie minibustaxiroetes in Mfuleni, Somerset-Wes, Khayelitsha, Nomzamo, en Lwandle is vir 30 dae gesluit in reaksie op aanhoudende geweld in die bedryf. Sileku sê wetstoepassingsagentskappe is gereed […]
# The Slovak parliament approved a constitutional amendment to limit the rights of same-sex couples and toughen rules surrounding gender transition. The amendment also sees national law take precedence over European Union law. Since his return to power in 2023, nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico has often been at odds with the 27-nation bloc. He […]
# Rugby: The United Rugby Championship returns today for its fifth edition. The Stormers and Bulls kick off their campaigns at home in Cape Town and Pretoria, while the Sharks are in Scotland, and the Lions start their season in Wales. At 7pm tonight the Stormers face defending champions, Leinster, while the Sharks face Glasgow […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Elaine Harrison, het aan die Madlanga-kommissie in Pretoria gesê die taakspan vir politieke moorde het gehelp om hoër skuldigbevindingsyfers in polities gemotiveerde sake te behaal. Harrison sê met aanklaers toegewy aan die eenheid se werk, was sake meer suksesvol afgehandel in vergelyking met voor die stigting van die […]
# The Netherlands pledged to return to Indonesia the remains of “Java Man”, the first-ever “Homo Erectus” unearthed by modern scientists in a landmark discovery for human evolution. The Dutch plan to hand back some 28-thousand fossils of the “Dubois Collection” looted by anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois in 1891, when Indonesia was still a […]
