# Eskom Group Chief Financial Officer Calib Cassim has retired, concluding 24 years of service to the power utility. Eskom says Cassim played a key role in strengthening the utility’s financial position and advancing the organisation’s long-term sustainability. It says returning to profitability reflects his significant contribution over more than two decades. Cassim will continue […]
# Cricket: South Africa won the third and final Test against Australia by 176 runs in Cape Town to take the series 2-1. Set a target of 288 for victory, the tourists were bowled out for 111, as the Proteas leapfrogged Australia to the top of the Test world rankings for the first time since […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema has framed the local government elections as victory or death, saying if the party does not win, South Africans will continue to live under conditions of corruption, incompetence and failing local government. He addressed the party’s final rally at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto yesterday. Malema accused politicians and contractors […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has described Wednesday’s local government elections as a two-horse race between his party and the ANC for first place in South Africa. He addressed supporters at the party’s national final rally in Tshwane yesterday. A recent Ipsos poll shows the DA at 25-percent nationally compared with the ANC’s 31-percent, but […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, sê ekonomiese groei is Suid-Afrika se hoofprioriteit, en erken dat fiskale beleid alleen nie die groei kan skep wat nodig is om werkloosheid te takel nie. Weens wêreldwye druk het die Nasionale Tesourie sy groeivooruitsig vir 2026 verlaag van 1,6 persent na 1,2 persent. Hy het deelgeneem aan […]
# President Volodymyr Zelensky van Oekraïne loof die Amerikaanse Departement van Buitelandse Sake se goedkeuring om 500 Patriot-missiele te lewer, maar sê dit kan jare duur voor sy land dit ontvang. Kiëf sal vir die aankope betaal met fondse van Kanada, Duitsland en Noorweë, asook ʼn lening van die Europese Unie. Zelensky sê dit moet […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has praised the authorisation of the potential sale of 500 Patriot missiles by the US State Department, but warns that it could take several years for the deliveries to arrive. Kyiv will pay for the missiles with donations from Canada, Germany, Norway and the European Union. Zelensky stressed that the interceptors […]
# Eskom het bedryfsplanne in plek, insluitend sy 24-uur-netwerkmoniteringstelsel en voorkeur aan operasionele reaksie in gebiede wat verkiesingsaktiwiteite ondersteun, om die risiko van moontlike ontwrigting te verminder. Suid-Afrikaners kan Maandag en Dinsdag spesiale stemme uitbring, terwyl die meerderheid na verwagting Woensdag sal stem. Eskom se woordvoerder, Daphne Mokwena, sê beter opwekking het die elektrisiteitstelsel versterk, […]
# Die Grensbestuursowerheid het alle bedrywighede by die Kopfontein-grenspos wat Suid-Afrika en Botswana verbind, tydelik opgeskort. Dit volg na ʼn reuse-storting. Hy sê dit raak die woonbuurt naby die grenspos, en ook die grenspos se bedrywighede. Geen besonderhede oor die tipe storting is bekendgemaak nie. Die owerheid se woordvoerder, Mmemme Mogotsi, sê die sluiting is […]
