# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Plaaslike Regerings het die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria genader vir ʼn dringende interdik teen die instelling van die tweede fase van die Wet op Administratiewe Beregting van Padverkeersmisdrywe. Volgens dié wet sal verkeersoortredings administratief hanteer word en die las op howe verlig. Herhaalde oortreders sal deur ʼn strafpuntstelsel van die pad […]
# Former DA leader and minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, has accused party insiders of orchestrating his downfall, saying leader Geordin Hill-Lewis “gave his head to a baying mob of hyenas”. Hill-Lewis has requested president Cyril Ramaphosa to make changes to the party’s executives in cabinet, including demoting Steenhuisen to Trade, Industry and Competition deputy […]
ʼn Beampte van die Johannesburgse Metropolisie wat van diens af was, is gearresteer nadat sy na bewering gisteroggend in Soweto ʼn mede-beampte wat ook van diens af was, doodgeskiet het. Volgens voorlopige berigte was ʼn vroue-beampte na bewering betrokke by ʼn huishoudelike stryery met haar vriendin voor sy ʼn kollega en vriend gekontak het om […]
# Die polisie in KwaZulu-Natal het twee tieners in hegtenis geneem in verband met die mesmoord op ʼn Ethiopiese winkeleienaar. Die 23‑jarige man is verlede week dood aangetref in sy vraghouer-snoepwinkel in Matiwaneskop. Die voorval het plaasgevind te midde van verhoogde spanning oor immigrasie in die land. ʼn Polisiewoordvoerder, Robert Netshiunda, sê diefstal was vermoedelik […]
# Die burgerlike organisasie, Soil of Africa, sê die huidige onwettige immigrasiekrisis is die regstreekse gevolg van jare lange mislukte leierskap, swak ekonomiese beplanning, swak grensbestuur en ongebreidelde korrupsie. Dit volg nadat groepe teen onwettige migrasie eis dat alle ongedokumenteerde immigrante die land teen môre verlaat terwyl betogings reg oor die land beplan word. Soil […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly personally instructed the ANC to abandon its intervention in his review application challenging the Section 89 Independent panel report into the Phala Phala scandal. The party formally withdrew its bid to participate in the case last week. This comes after National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza decided not to oppose Ramaphosa’s […]
# The World Health Organisation has warned that Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global average. This as more than one-thousand-300 excess deaths have been recorded in connection with Europe’s record-breaking heatwave since June 21st. The heat is particularly intense in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. WHO […]
# Cricket: England captain Ben Stokes has announced he will retire from international cricket at the conclusion of the current third and final Test match against New Zealand. This brings an end to his 15-year international career and a four-year tenure as Test captain. The 35-year-old all-rounder has made 122 Test appearances for England, played […]
# KwaZulu-Natal premier, Thami Ntuli, has warned people who are planning to use tomorrow’s anti-immigration protests to plunge the province into chaos, reminiscent of the scenes of July 2021, will face the full might of the law. Over 300 people died during the unrest in KZN and Gauteng, where shops were looted or destroyed. Ntuli […]
