# Applications for the curated programme of the 52nd National Arts Festival in Makhanda, Eastern Cape, next year, are open. The programme assembles some of the country’s most exciting award-winning talent alongside global works and edgy genre-bending experiences. This year’s curated programme included Cape Ballet Africa’s triple bill SALT, the UK’s Action Hero’s theatre work The Talent, […]
# Die Gautengse Onderwysdepartement sê vyf leerders van die Thuto-Lefa Secondary School in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, is in hegtenis geneem nadat twee mobiele klaskamers aan die brand gesteek is. Dit het na bewering gevolg op leerders se ontevredenheid met onlangse roosterveranderings. Die departement se woordvoerder, Steve Mabona, sê dis uiters ontstellend dat moontlike teenstand teen akademiese […]
# Die DA in die Wes-Kaap het sy versoek vir die dringende hervoming van die nasionale behuisingsfondsmodel herhaal omdat dit tans langtermyn sekerheid kortkom wat vir beplanning nodig is. Dirk Wessels van die party sê ‘n sprekende voorbeeld is die Greenhaven-behuisingsontwikkelingsprojek. Hy sê die projek benodig sowat een-duisend huise in Groot Brakrivier waar ongeveer dieselfde […]
# Die adjunkminister van Toerisme Maggie Sotyu, sê vroue is die eintlike stukrag in die toerismebedryf, nie net as werknemers en entrepreneurs nie, maar ook as kulturele toesighouers en agente vir verandering. Sy het gister die Atrium Boutique Hotel in Limpopo geopen. Dit het 100-persent swart eienaarskap en 60-persent hiervan is vroue. Sotyu sê dis […]
# An active-duty US Army sergeant has been arrested after he opened fire at the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia, wounding five of his fellow soldiers. Officials say the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Sergeant Quornelius Samentrio Radford, opened fire with his personal handgun and was targeting his fellow troops. Brigadier General John Lubas says this […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus verwelkom die skorsing van twee amptenare van die Gautengse Departement van Gemeenskapsveiligheid weens beweerde korrupsie. Premier Panyaza Lesufi het die departementshoof, Nontsikelelo Sisulu, en finansiële hoof, Mduduzi Malope, geskors na ʼn ondersoek by die departement waartydens finansiële onreëlmatighede gevind is. Jaco Mulder van die VF Plus sê dis bemoedigend dat daar uiteindelik […]
# Die regering sê onwettige mynbedrywighede is ʼn misdaad wat nasionale sekerheid en openbare veiligheid bedreig. Minstens 550 vermeende onwettige myners, insluitend buitelanders en minderjariges, is die afgelope paar dae by die Sheba-goudmyn in Barberton, Mpumalanga, gearresteer. Die regeringswoordvoerder, Nonkululeko Matshali, sê hulle verwelkom die voortgesette inhegtenisneming van onwettige myners en moedig landsburgers aan om […]
# The EFF has submitted an urgent appeal to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry chairperson, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, raising concerns over venue cost management. The commission has been tasked with investigating corruption in the criminal justice system. The EFF says its concern arises from the costly precedent set by the State Capture Inquiry, which cost […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Trade, Industry and Competition says, due to the significant trade and investment relationship between South Africa and the US, it is concerned about the impact of the 30-percent tariff hikes. Exports to America accounted for approximately eight-percent of South Africa’s total global exports of goods in 2024. The committee says it […]
