# Die vakbond NEHAWU sê hy is bekommerd oor bewerings dat die administrateur van die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente geld mors. Volgens berigte het professor Hlengani Mathebula vier tegniese raadgewers teen tien-miljoen-rand per jaar gehuur en 200-duisend-rand aan huisvesting en reiskoste bestee. Die woordvoerder van Nehawu, Lwazi Nkolonzi, sê dis glo gedoen sonder die […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu vra dringende ingryping om die krisis aan te spreek by die land se munisipaliteite met finansiële probleme. Dit volg nadat die Nasionale Tesourie tydelik 13,5-miljard-rand se befondsing aan 69 munisipaliteite weerhou het weens nienakoming. Cosatu-woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê hulle erken die noodsaaklikheid om finansiële dissipline by hierdie munisipaliteite in te stel, maar […]
# Tennis: South Africa’s four-time Grand Slam champion, Kgothatso Montjane, and her British partner Lucy Shuker are through to the ladies’ wheelchair doubles semifinals at Wimbledon. They defeated France’s Ksenia Chasteau and the Netherlands’ Jiske Griffioen 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Montjane won Wimbledon’s wheelchair doubles title with her Japanese partner, Yui Kamiji, in 2024, while Shuker […]
# The US military launched another round of airstrikes on Iran yesterday evening. Explosions were reported in the port city of Bandar Abbas in the Strait of Hormuz, Sirik, and the south-western Bushehr province, home to Tehran’s nuclear-power-plant complex. The US Central Command says the strikes were carried out to further degrade Iran’s ability to […]
# Cricket: The International Cricket Council has accused the England and Wales Cricket Board of breaching the anti-corruption code after sharing dressing room footage of captain Ben Stokes’ retirement speech last month. The footage of the 35-year-old was shared with broadcasters and on social media shortly before the tea break of the third Test against […]
# The EFF has warned National Treasury against pursuing what it calls a path that seeks to collapse the state and reduce it to a mere spectator. The party has condemned the Treasury’s decision to temporarily withhold 13.5-billion-rand in local government equitable share transfers from 69 non-compliant municipalities. The EFF says to resolve the fiscal […]
# The African Transformation Movement says it wants Public Protector, Kholeka Gcaleka, to account to Parliament for her slow pace in finalising its complaint against suspended Police minister Senzo Mchunu. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi accused Mchunu of, amongst other things, political interference in criminal investigations and playing a role in the disbandment of the […]
# Johannesburg mayor, Dada Morero, has defended the metro’s decision to secure a 3.8-billion-rand loan from German state-owned development bank KfW. The loan will enable City Power to accelerate network refurbishment, metering upgrades, and renewable energy projects to improve energy security across the metro. Approximately 1.75-billion-rand has also been earmarked for Johannesburg Water capital projects. […]
# Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu says he has urged US president Donald Trump directly not to sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, warning that this would “destroy” the balance of power in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Trump indicated that he was willing to overturn a ban on the sale of the […]
