# US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the Trump administration’s decision to give refugee status to white Afrikaners. President Donald Trump has falsely asserted that white farmers in South Africa are undergoing genocide and deserve special status. This is despite him suspending the US’s refugee resettlement programme in January. Appearing before the Senate Foreign […]
# Renowned businessman Johann Rupert says golfer Ernie Els was the person who, over the past month, talked US president Donald Trump into agreeing to a meeting with president Cyril Ramaphosa. Rupert and Els will reportedly join Ramaphosa’s delegation when he meets Trump in the White House today. News24 reports that in an interview, Rupert […]
# The EFF has condemned reports that the government is set to offer regulatory assurances to Elon Musk’s Starlink, saying this move is unconstitutional. The government is reportedly planning to offer Musk a workaround of local black ownership laws for his Starlink internet service to operate in South Africa. The EFF says they are not […]
# AfriForum has criticised the City of Tshwane for thwarting the implementation of the organisation’s plan for safeguarding substations in the metro. Several parts of Centurion and Pretoria East were without power on Tuesday due to an explosion at the Zwartkop substation. Last month, a transformer at the Waltloo substation caught fire. AfriForum’s Arno Roodt […]
# Tech billionaire Elon Musk has criticised South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment laws. He claims the Starlink internet service was barred from operating in the country because he is not black. To operate in South Africa, Starlink needs to obtain network and service licences, which both require 30-percent ownership by historically disadvantaged groups. Government is […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau, together with minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, met with US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Lee Greer in Washington. America is South Africa’s second-biggest trade partner after China. Minister Steenhuisen says the meeting centred on ensuring open and mutually beneficial access for agricultural products that create jobs […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is looking forward to a really good and positive meeting with US president Donald Trump today. He visited the South African embassy in Washington on Tuesday, where he received a strategic briefing from his ministers. The government has labelled the much-anticipated talks an opportunity to reset relations. Ramaphosa says a […]
# Suid-Afrikaners het alle verwagtinge oortref in die wêreldwye Mei-50-duisend-uitdaging, toe hul meer as 300-duisend-rand vir veelvuldige sklerose ingesamel het. Dit is meer as die oorspronklike doelwit van 100-duisend-rand. Meer as een-duisend-600 mense het in ‘n gees van eenheid deelgeneem Die paralimpiese atleet Kat Swanepoel het die voortou geneem met ‘n 50-kilometer-swem. Dertig-persent van die […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê kankerpasiënte het premier Panyaza Lesufi se verskoning oorweldigend verwerp vir die vertraging in die verskaffing van lewensreddende bestralingsbehandeling, ondanks ‘n beskikbare begroting. Die Gautengse Hooggeregshof het in Maart beslis dat die provinsiale Gesondheidsdepartement se versuim om dringende kankerbehandeling aan ongeveer drieduisend pasiënte te verskaf, onwettig en ongrondwetlik was. Die […]
