# Germany’s Alternative for Germany has secured a resounding victory in Saxony-Anhalt, placing it in power at the state level for the first time since World War Two. Preliminary results show the party won 44.4-percent of the vote. It has, however, fallen short of an absolute majority. The party of Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the […]
# The DA says the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union’s latest attack on minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, is a clear attempt to protect wrongdoing. SADTU has called on president Cyril Ramaphosa to sanction Gwarube, following her decision to keep the new Foundation Phase textbook catalogue suspended. The union says this is despite investigations […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini was officially invited to attend the Southern African Development Community Summit in Durban last month. This comes after the King claimed he was sidelined from the event, accusing the government of disrespecting him by holding such a high-profile event in his province […]
# Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile says government cannot accelerate the elimination of the infrastructure backlog while simultaneously spending scarce public resources rebuilding classrooms, toilets, laboratories, fences and other assets that have been deliberately vandalised or stolen. The province’s infrastructure pressures have been compounded by population growth, migration, housing development, urbanisation and changing settlement patterns. […]
# Five people have died after an Amazon cargo aircraft overran the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport and caught fire. Five other people were injured, three in critical condition. The Amazon Air cargo aircraft was one of more than 250 carriers that the e-commerce giant operates daily to ship customer packages. Miami-Dade […]
# Rugby: Defending champions Griquas will host the Pumas in the Currie Cup final in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on Saturday. In the first of two playoff games yesterday afternoon, the Griquas delivered a ruthless seven-try masterclass to overpower the Lions 52-12 in their clash in Kimberley. This was followed by a titanic battle in Bloemfontein, where […]
# The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria is expected to deliver judgment on former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s Section 174 discharge application. She faces 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering relating to her tenure as Defence and Military Veterans minister between 2016 and 2019. The State alleges that Defence Force […]
# US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner say they held meaningful, substantive discussions with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Yesterday’s meeting came a day after the envoys held three hours of talks in Moscow on Saturday with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Zelensky and Putin agreed to halt strikes on each other’s capitals for three days […]
# Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia says the best way to honour fallen officers is to build a police service grounded in professionalism, discipline, integrity and courage. Yesterday marked the annual SAPS National Commemoration Day in Pretoria, where 12 officers who died in the line of duty between April last year and March this year […]
