# The Canadian government has introduced the Safe Social Media Act to hold social media and artificial intelligence platforms accountable and restrict access for children under 16. This comes amid calls from parents and advocates to bolster children’s safety online. Other countries consider similar bans. Culture minister Marc Miller says while laws exist to respond […]
# US president Donald Trump says the military has since last month executed a secret operation to help oil tankers transit the Strait of Hormuz. Normally, about 20-percent of global petroleum supplies pass through the route, but traffic has remained severely limited since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran in February. Trump says the secret operation […]
# Die Stad Tshwane sê die veelparty-koalisieregering wil in infrastruktuur belê om die lewens van inwoners regstreeks te verbeter en terselfdertyd veiliger en beter verbinde gemeenskappe skep. Die metro het 129 nuwe straatligte langs Sinovich-rylaan in Wyk 91, Streek 6, aangebring as deel van die #SwitchOnTshwane-diensleweringsprogram. Tshwane sê dit sal sigbaarheid verbeter vir motoriste, voetgangers […]
# Die vakbondfederasie SAFTU is bekommerd oor onthullings van die Openbare Beleggingskorporasie se Isibaya-fonds wat in 15 maatskappye en projekte belê het waar al hul geld verloor is. Die fonds het sowat 4,45-miljard-rand belê wat nou ‘n interne inkomste van minus 100-persent het. Dit beteken elke sent is verlore. Asive Dyani van SAFTU sê die […]
# Soccer: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has defended his organisation’s handling of several controversies which overshadowed the build-up to the World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico. These include Somalian referee Omar Artan being denied entry to the US for allegedly having links with suspected terror organisations, Iran moving its training base from the […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, says government is working to strengthen bilateral relations, expand trade and create more investment opportunities with Mexico. He met with the Mexican Foreign minister, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, in Mexico City yesterday, ahead of the upcoming Binational Commission between the two countries. Mexico remains one of South […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Buti Manamela, het streng gevolgebestuur en aanspreeklikheidsprosesse by die boubedryf se onderwys- en opleidingsowerheid, CETA, toegepas. CETA is in Augustus verlede jaar weens sistemiese mislukkings onder administrasie geplaas. Dit sluit in vier agtereenvolgende gekwalifiseerde ouditmenings en aansienlike oortoekenning van nie-verpligtende toelaes. Laasgenoemde het meer as 2,7-miljard-rand teen […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police chairperson, Ian Cameron, is calling for the suspension of Crime Intelligence head Major-General Feroz Khan. He has been implicated in evidence presented before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, including allegations of interfering in police investigations. Khan is currently out on bail on separate precious metals charges, an arrest he […]
# Iran says it will continue to exercise its right to self-defence in response to any armed aggression. This comes as the US launched a second round of airstrikes on Tehran this morning, with president Donald Trump warning that it would pay the price for stalled negotiations. Iran responded with strikes targeting US bases in Bahrain, […]
