# US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says they will continue to economically isolate Iran and blockade its ports. Last week, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on individuals, exchange houses and companies across several countries that it accused of helping Iran’s Shahr Bank move hundreds of millions of dollars clandestinely. […]
# Soccer: South Africa defeated Nigeria 2-1 in their CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations playoff match in Morocco to qualify for the FIFA Playoff tournament for next year’s World Cup in Brazil. Goals from Thembi Kgatlana and Refiloe Jane secured the victory for Banyana Banyana. The next phase of the qualification process will be […]
# Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee chairperson, Soviet Lekganyane, says the findings and recommendations of the committee may help shape the criminal justice system. The committee was established to investigate allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, who accused high-ranking politicians, police leaders and criminal cartels of infiltrating South Africa’s criminal justice system. Lekganyane says […]
# World Health Organisation director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has expressed concern that changes to the immunisation policy in the United States are not in line with the best available science. On Monday, president Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing the number of routine childhood immunisations from 18 to 11. The changes also include separating […]
# Gauteng MEC for Education, Lebogang Maile, says the suggestion that his department has spent money on office accommodation at the expense of school funding is mischievous and misleading. According to reports, Gauteng’s provincial government is spending more than 230-million-rand a year on rented district offices for the department, while public schools across the province […]
# The MK Party has initiated formal proceedings in both Parliament and before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry against the chairperson of the portfolio committee on Police, Ian Cameron. His name was mentioned at the commission in connection with allegations that he was part of a plot by the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption to remove […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says government will undertake the process of establishing a fully independent, state-owned transmission company carefully and responsibly. He has endorsed the phase one report of the Eskom Restructuring Task Team, which confirmed the feasibility of establishing a Transmission System Operator with grid assets. Ramaphosa says the process must achieve three objectives: […]
# Die Stad Tshwane sê meer as een-duisend-500 jongmense het baat gevind sedert die bekendstelling in Februarie van die Ithuba Jeug Ekonomiese Ontwikkelingsprogram. Die vennootskap tussen die metro en verskeie regerings-, NRO- en privaat sektor-instellings is daarop gemik om die aantal ekonomiese geleenthede vir jongmense te verbeter. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling en Ruimtelike Beplanning, […]
# The International Organisation for Migration says migrant deaths more than doubled along the Central Mediterranean route and tripled along the Eastern Mediterranean route in the first four months of this year, compared to last year. Along the Central Mediterranean, 821 people died or went missing, an increase of 111-percent, while along the Eastern Mediterranean, […]
