# The World Wildlife Fund South Africa says sustainable development of a transition minerals industry could not be more pertinent as South Africa prepares to host the G20 nations later this year. The World Bank estimates that there will be a 500-percent increase in demand for minerals such as graphite and lithium by 2050, to […]
# Die Forum vir Onafhanklike Finansiële Raadgewers doen ‘n beroep op die Stad Tshwane om sy onreëlmatige tender vir ‘n mediesefonds-makelaar terug te trek. Die metro wil ‘n onafhanklike makelaarsfirma aanstel om vir drie jaar ‘n omvattende mediesefonds-diens te lewer. Dit moet toegang tot, en die bestuur van gesondheidsorg vir sy werknemers en hul afhanklikes […]
# Die vakbond, Giwusa, sê die Mededingingskommissie se regsaak teen 14 plaaslike en internasionale banke wys hoe finansiële kapitaal as parasiet werksaam is. Die saak spuit uit berigte dat 28 banke na bewering tussen 2007 en 2013 saamgespan het om die rand/dollar-wisselkoers te manipuleer. Giwusa se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê dis ʼn regstreekse en brutale […]
# Spain’s meteorological agency says the 16-day heatwave the country suffered this month was the most intense on record. The heatwave, which claimed more than one-thousand lives, fuelled wildfires that continue to ravage parts of the north and west of the country. The agency says provisional readings for the 3rd to the 18th of August […]
# Die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen, sê die Wysigingswet op Landbouprodukstandaarde stel ʼn nuwe kultuur bekend wat ʼn inklusiewe en deursigtige benadering bring om inspeksiefooie te bepaal. President Cyril Ramaphosa het die wet verlede week in die Staatskoerant bekragtig ná die minister se aanbevelings. Steenhuisen sê die wysigings se bekragtiging ondersteun en versterk die […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, doen ʼn beroep op die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, om weens toenemende bendegeweld dringend nood-hulpbronne aan die Teenbende-eenheid toe te wys. Die eenheid het volgens berigte ʼn geweldige tekort aan voertuie, vuurwapens en koeëlvaste onderbaadjies. Hill-Lewis sê ʼn groot deel van die oplossing is om die metro […]
# Cricket: Australia avoided a series whitewash by beating South Africa by a record 276 runs in the third and final ODI in Mackay, Queensland. Travis Head, Cameron Green and Mitchell Marsh all scored centuries as the hosts posted 431 for two in their allotted 50-overs. In reply, Cooper Connolly claimed his maiden five-wicket haul […]
# Well-known academic and journalist, professor Wilhelm Jordaan, passed away over the weekend at the age of 82. He wrote weekly columns for the Beeld for over 30-years and later for its sister publications, Die Burger and Volksblad. Jordaan was the author and co-author of about 15 academic books and 30 psychology articles. One of […]
# The South African National Defence Force has rejected allegations that Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya is defiant towards the minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Angie Motshekga. According to the City Press, Maphwanya vowed to continue defying the minister’s order to reinstate Colonel Eugene Motati. He was unlawfully dismissed in September 2019, on untested sexual […]
