# President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, in Pretoria yesterday, for discussions on strengthening respect for international humanitarian law and the rules of war. South Africa is one of the six founding states of the Global International Humanitarian Law Initiative, which has mobilised 118 […]
# The US military launched new airstrikes on Iranian targets, leaving four people dead, including a four-year-old child, and more than 50 injured. The US Central Command says the strikes followed recent attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. In retaliation, Tehran targeted American interests in […]
# Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, says the National Minimum Wage remains a critical protection for sectors where women are concentrated: domestic work, agriculture, hospitality and retail. The national minimum wage is 30-rand-23-cents per ordinary hour worked. Meth says it is concerning that a significant proportion of economically active women in South Africa […]
# Swimming: Olympic champion Tatjana Smith has issued Swimming South Africa with a letter of demand seeking payment of interest on prize money allegedly retained for more than a year. She alleges that SSA retained the interest that accrued on 560-thousand-rand at the current exchange rate and 650-thousand-rand at the time in prize money earned […]
# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the US can resume when Washington gets serious about negotiations. Last week, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move rejected by Canadians. The Trump administration has levied 50-percent tariffs on Canadian goods, while […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee chairperson, Makashule Gana, has given political parties until Friday to submit further nominations for an evidence leader. The committee rescinded its decision to recommend advocate Thandazani Madonsela as the evidence leader of its inquiry into president Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala saga. Ramaphosa objected to the appointment, citing potential conflicts […]
# Nepal’s Foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, says he remains hopeful that the nearly four-thousand people still missing following last week’s deadly flash floods can still be rescued alive. Among the missing are over 600 workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along the Trishuli River. The death […]
# Cricket: South Africa claimed a 43-run win over Zimbabwe in their Namibian T20 tri-series contest to all but secure their spot in the final in Windhoek. Lhuan-dré Pretorius scored 94 runs from 51 balls and shared an opening partnership of 68 with Jordan Hermann before a second-wicket stand of 86 with Dewald Brevis. The […]
# The Electoral Commission says it has not given the ANC an additional opportunity beyond the 5 pm deadline of Friday last week to submit its candidate nomination lists. The party failed to submit its lists for several Eastern Cape municipalities owing to ‘technical issues’ with the commission’s candidate-capture system. The ANC claimed it was […]
