# Anti-immigration civic group March and March’s national executive committee has adopted a three-month action plan that includes further demonstrations, pickets, and blitz operations in key economic centres across South Africa. Tensions against illegal immigrants in the country have been escalating over the past few months. The movement says it wants to work with various stakeholders and […]
# The ANC in the Greater Johannesburg Region says the Public Protector’s report on governance and service delivery failures in the City of Cape Town tears apart the carefully manufactured myth that the DA governs better. Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka has found that the metro has failed to provide basic municipal services to residents […]
# Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, says there has been measurable progress in clamping down on extortion and intimidation in the construction industry. The industry estimates that 180 public infrastructure projects worth 63-billion-rand have been delayed as a result of extortion, intimidation, or violence. KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, and the Eastern Cape have been […]
# President, Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed his call for Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, saying his country has become a source of extraordinary defensive capability for the alliance. He addressed the annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. Ukraine’s aspiration to become a member of NATO is a challenge, with countries including […]
# Tennis: Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic outlasted Felix Auger-Aliassime in the longest quarterfinal in Wimbledon history to make the semifinals for the 15th time. In a five-hour-and-15-minute quarterfinal clash, the Serb defeated the Canadian, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6. Djokovic will face Italian defending champion Jannik Sinner, who beat Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff, 7-5, 7-6, 6-3. […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has welcomed the intent behind the National Treasury’s decision to withhold the July equitable share transfers to 69 municipalities temporarily. The list includes the City of Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay, Mangaung, and Matjhabeng. Treasury says the withholding of funds is aimed at instilling fiscal discipline, […]
# Gauteng police arrested over 217 suspected illegal miners at Losberg Kloof Mine in Westonaria yesterday as part of Operation Prosper. This multi-agency operation forms part of an ongoing national campaign to dismantle illegal mining syndicates and transnational criminal networks operating across South Africa’s mining regions. Gauteng deputy police commissioner, Fred Kekana, says most of […]
# Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has called for a data-driven, evidence-based approach to tackling South Africa’s youth unemployment challenge. According to Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey released in May, youth unemployment stands at 60.9-percent for those aged 15-24, with an unemployment rate of 40.6-percent for those aged 25-34. Speaking at the Government […]
# US president Donald Trump has once again criticised the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation for what he perceives as a failure to help America in its war against Iran. Trump is attending NATO’s annual summit in Ankara, Turkey. He has threatened to pull American troops from Europe. The US has demanded that NATO allies increase […]
