# South Africa has called on the US to end the economic, commercial, and financial embargo against Cuba, saying this remains the foremost impediment to the country’s attainment of its development aspirations. Cuba says the damage caused by the embargo during the period from March 2025 through February this year amounted to a record 131.2-billion-rand. […]
# Die Raad van Gesondheidsorg-befondsers sê een beginsel het tydens elke sitting van sy 25ste konferensie na vore gekom: Die pasiënt moet die middelpunt bly van elke regulatoriese en bedryfsbesluit. Die konferensie is die afgelope week in Kaapstad aangebied. Katlego Mothudi van die raad sê bedryfsverteenwoordigers het saamgestem oor ʼn hegter verhouding, en areas uitgelig […]
# Four suspects, including suspended City of Ekurhuleni head of legal services, Kemi Behari, have been arrested by the Madlanga Commission’s Recommendations Task Team. Behari was implicated at the Madlanga Commission after it emerged that he allegedly shielded Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Police Department chief Julius Mkhwanazi from disciplinary action. National Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe, says […]
# Die adjunkminister van Water en Sanitasie, Jack Bloom, vra die Mogale City plaaslike munisipaliteit in Gauteng om die instandhouding van waterinfrastruktuur te verbeter en pogings om onnodige waterverlies weens lekkasies te voorkom, te monitor. Hy het gister ʼn oorsigbesoek aan Dan Pienaarville in Krugersdorp gebring om ʼn waterlek te ondersoek wat al drie jaar […]
# Die ANC in Kaapstad sê agter die DA se beeld van goeie bestuur is verwaarloosde gemeenskappe, vervalle infrastruktuur en ʼn munisipaliteit wat nie die grondwetlike regte van baie inwoners handhaaf nie. Volgens die Openbare Beskermer se verslag lewer die metro nie basiese dienste in Langa en Khayelitsha nie. Judy-Ann Stevens van die ANC sê […]
# Die vakbond NEHAWU sê hy is bekommerd oor bewerings dat die administrateur van die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente geld mors. Volgens berigte het professor Hlengani Mathebula vier tegniese raadgewers teen tien-miljoen-rand per jaar gehuur en 200-duisend-rand aan huisvesting en reiskoste bestee. Die woordvoerder van Nehawu, Lwazi Nkolonzi, sê dis glo gedoen sonder die […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu vra dringende ingryping om die krisis aan te spreek by die land se munisipaliteite met finansiële probleme. Dit volg nadat die Nasionale Tesourie tydelik 13,5-miljard-rand se befondsing aan 69 munisipaliteite weerhou het weens nienakoming. Cosatu-woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê hulle erken die noodsaaklikheid om finansiële dissipline by hierdie munisipaliteite in te stel, maar […]
# Tennis: South Africa’s four-time Grand Slam champion, Kgothatso Montjane, and her British partner Lucy Shuker are through to the ladies’ wheelchair doubles semifinals at Wimbledon. They defeated France’s Ksenia Chasteau and the Netherlands’ Jiske Griffioen 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Montjane won Wimbledon’s wheelchair doubles title with her Japanese partner, Yui Kamiji, in 2024, while Shuker […]
# The US military launched another round of airstrikes on Iran yesterday evening. Explosions were reported in the port city of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz, Sirik, and the south-western Bushehr province, home to Tehran’s nuclear-power-plant complex. The US Central Command says the strikes were carried out to further degrade Iran’s ability to […]
