# Die Instituut vir Rasseaangeleenthede sê opposisiepartye wat die voorgestelde BTW-verhoging teenstaan as beginselbeswaar, moet ook negatiewe sakebeleid konfronteer. Die instituut het die EFF en MK-party gevra om nie net die BTW-verhoging te verwerp nie, maar om ook arm gemeenskappe daadwerklik te beskerm teen wat inderwaarheid belasting is vir swart ekonomiese bemagtiging. Makone Maja van die […]
# The US Supreme Court has ordered president Donald Trump’s administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a jail in El Salvador. The administration has conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported due to an administrative error. He was deported on March 15th on one of three high-profile deportation flights […]
# Inwoners van die Lesedi plaaslike munisipaliteit in Gauteng staar wateronderbrekings in die gesig nadat Rand Water die munisipaliteit se waterdruk met 20-persent verminder het. Die munisipaliteit skuld die watervoorsiener byna 121-miljoen-rand. Die watervloei het sedert verlede naweek swakker geword. Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Gauteng sê die Lesedi-munisipaliteit het die afgelope vyf maande sy volle […]
# Die GOOD-party sê inklusiewe ekonomiese groei en werkskepping bly elke munisipaliteit in Suid-Afrika se prioriteit. Die land se werkloosheidskoers, die persentasie van die bevolking wat werk het, is sowat 40-persent, wat ver onder die wêreld se gemiddeld van 55-tot-65-persent is. GOOD se woordvoerder, Sarah Mabotsa, sê heeltemal te veel mense, veral onder die jeug, […]
# Golf: England’s Justin Rose leads the Masters by three shots after the opening round at Augusta National in Georgia. The 44-year-old card a seven-under 65, giving him a commanding advantage over defending champion American Scottie Scheffer, Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg and Corey Conners of Canada. Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy started his latest bid to complete […]
# Parliament’s select committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Mineral Resources has expressed concern over Eskom’s persistent challenges that included the escalating municipal debt crisis, which has crippled the power utility’s financial sustainability. Eskom’s municipal debt is around 107-billion-rand. The committee says it is also concerned about continued problems with fraud, corruption, and criminality at […]
# The EFF has welcomed the Independent Police Investigative Directorate clearing KwaZulu-NataI Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. In 2023, he was accused of abusing his power and interfering with the arrest of a senior correctional services official who was allegedly running a drug cartel at the Westville Maximum Prison in Durban. The EFF says it maintains that […]
# Six people including three children have died after a passenger helicopter they were in crashed into the Hudson River in New York. Officials say the helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside down into the river. Five of the passengers were a family visiting from Spain and the sixth person was the pilot. […]
# Golf: France’s Perrine Delacour and Germany’s Aline Krauter fired rounds of seven-under-par 65, to share the lead after the first round of the South African Women’s Open in the Western Cape. They lead by a single stroke over Namibia’s Bonita Bredenhann, France’s Lucie Malchirand and the Czech Republic’s Sara Kouskova. This is the final […]
