# Public Works and Infrastructure minister, Dean Macpherson, says the Adopt-A-Municipality initiative is an opportunity to improve the coalface of service delivery in South Africa. The initiative is in its pilot phase at three municipalities. It paves the way for Infrastructure South Africa to work with municipalities to introduce rapid infrastructure interventions and assist with […]
# Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has paid tribute to actor Presley Chweneyagae, describing him as one of South Africa’s most powerful creative voices. The 40-year-old, who starred in the Oscar-winning South African film, Tsotsi, passed away on Tuesday morning. Presley is also known to audiences for his role as Cobra in the […]
# US president Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly set to order federal agencies to cancel all government contracts with Harvard University. The about 30 contracts are collectively worth 1.8-billion-rand. Since April, the administration has already frozen 57-billion-rand in research grants and attempted to ban the university from enrolling foreign students, a move temporarily blocked by […]
# Die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, skenk vandag 100 pakkies sanitêre doekies, skoene en skryfbehoeftes aan meisies by die Manzomthombo Secondary School in Mfuleni, Kaapstad. Studies toon meer as ʼn derde Suid-Afrikaanse meisies gaan elke maand ʼn week lank nie skool nie weens ʼn gebrek aan menstruele en higiëneprodukte. Die veldtog is […]
# Rhodes Universiteit sê hulle het hul verbintenis tot ‘n inklusiewe en bemagtigende omgewing versterk met die verkryging van ‘n nuwe bus. Die voertuig, wat ontwerp is om studente met gestremdhede te vervoer, is ‘n poging om hindernisse vir volle deelname aan die kampuslewe te verwyder. Dit is die uitvloeisel van ‘n gesamentlike poging tussen […]
# Die Stad Ekurhuleni se nooddienste moedig inwoners aan om verwarmers tydens die winter versigtig te gebruik. Sondagaand is ses lede van dieselfde gesin dood toe die plakkershut waarin hulle geslaap het, in die Marikana informele nedersetting in KwaThema afgebrand het. ‘n Woordvoerder van die rampnooddienste, Maswati Mdluli, sê ‘n dag later is een persoon […]
# Drie mense is vanoggend dood en 12 beseer in ʼn busongeluk op die R102 naby die Maidstone-suikermeule by Tongaat in KwaZulu-Natal. Volgens owerhede het die volgelaaide bus van die Tongaatrivier-brug afgestort en twee mans en ʼn vrou is dood. Die provinsiale Vervoerdepartement se woordvoerder, Ndabezinhle Sibiya, sê die betrokke owerhede sal die noodlottige ongeluk […]
# Die Afrika-klimaatsveranderingfonds deur die Afrika-ontwikkelingsbank help Ugandese vroue met geslagsgelykheid en klimaatsverandering. By ʼn woudherstelterrein in Kotido leer vroue om bome te plant, toegang tot grond te kry en waterbewaring. Gemeenskapsleiers, die burgerlike samelewing en plaaslike amptenare is ook betrokke. Die projek bemagtig vroue as omgewingsleiers, met tasbare resultate soos boomkwekerye en plaaslike klimaatsaksie. […]
# The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees is warning that the trickle of supplies being allowed into war-torn Gaza will not halt famine. It is estimated that 500-thousand people face starvation in the enclave. Israel has intensified its military operation in northern Gaza against Hamas, killing at least 50 people in air strikes in […]
