# Die onafhanklike energie-ontleder Tshepo Kgadima sê die regering en Eskom moet die skuld kry vir hoë elektrisiteitspryse. Die minister van Elektrisiteit en Energie, Kgosientsho Ramokgopato, het veranderings aan die elektrisiteitsprysbeleid aangekondig wat daarop gemik is om bekostigbaarheid te verbeter en te verseker verbruikers word nie onregverdig belas met koste weens ondoeltreffendheid, munisipale skuld en […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Buti Manamela, vra ‘n dringende gesprek tussen die bestuur en raad van die Kaapse Skiereilandse Universiteit vir Tegnologie en studenteleiers. Gister se brandstigtingsvoorval op die kampus in Bellville het ‘n algehele sluiting veroorsaak en koshuise is ontruim. Dit volg op betogings oor voorgestelde veranderings aan die befondsingsmodel […]
# Rugby: Die voormalige Wallabie- en Puma-afrigter Michael Cheika gaan van die volgende Superrugby-seisoen by die Waratahs aansluit. Die 59-jarige Australiër het sy nasionale span van 2014 tot 2019 afgerig en Argentinië van 2022 tot ’23, en het spanne soos Leinster, Stade Francais en Leicester Tigers afgerig. Cheika sê sy tuisspan het nog altyd ‘n […]
# Prime minister Andy Burnham says the UK will continue providing support to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s aggression. Moscow’s UK embassy has accused Britain of deliberately opting for an escalation of the crisis, saying the deeper its involvement, the higher the price it will pay. This follows after British-made drones were used in […]
# US president Donald Trump’s administration has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court president Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye. This brings to eleven the ICC officials sanctioned by the administration. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused the two of directly engaging in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials […]
# Die Forum for South Africa sê die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente moet ontbind word en met ʼn nuwe, deursigtige, aanspreeklike model vervang word wat studentebefondsing professioneel bestuur. Die Openbare Beskermer se verslag oor die skema het tekortkominge in bestuur, administrasie en fonds-koördinering gevind. Die forum se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê Suid-Afrika kan nie […]
# Die burgerlike organisasie, Soil of Africa, vra omvattende hervorming by die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente. ʼn Ondersoek deur die Openbare Beskermer het onthul sowat 40-duisend studente by 76 hoëronderwys-instellings is onbehoorlik befonds teen ʼn koste van 5,1-miljard-rand. Die organisasie se woordvoerder, Luzuko Sofute, sê die land se studentebefondsing-krisis is nie meer net ʼn […]
# Tennis: Former US Open singles champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens have received wild cards into the women’s singles draw. They join five other players, including fellow Americans Carol Young Suh Lee, Reese Brantmeier and Thea Frodin. The US Tennis Association has held back one further wild card place, potentially for six-time champion Serena […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority says the gap between referrals and prosecutions must be understood against the complexity of corruption cases. The Special Investigating Unit had made five-thousand-944 criminal referrals to the NPA since 2011, but only ten-percent translated to dockets and prosecutions. Gauteng has accounted for two-thousand-655 referrals since 2011, resulting in 206 dockets. […]
