# Die Stad Tshwane sê krag by die Lynnwood-, Mooikloof- en Willows-substasies is herstel ná ‘n ontploffing by die Waltloo-substasie, wat gister tot ‘n kragonderbreking by die Njala-toevoerstasie gelei het. Njala lewer ‘n groot deel van die metro se elektrisiteit, en die onderbreking het minstens elf primêre substasies geraak. Die burgemeester van Tshwane se woordvoerder, […]
# Die minister van Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake, Velinkosini Hlabisa, verwelkom die Kabinet se goedkeuring van die Hersiene Witskrif oor Plaaslike Regering en sê dis belangrik om die land se plaaslikeregeringstelsel te hervorm. Die hervormings is daarop gemik om ʼn stelsel te bou wat doeltreffend, finansieel volhoubaar en aanspreeklik is, en op gemeenskappe se […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming the term artificial intelligence to “Super Intelligence”, to be used in official communications by his administration. He met with top technology executives, including those from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta and Google, at the White House yesterday. There have been calls for tighter oversight of […]
# UK prime minister Andy Burnham says his agenda will break the mould of the last 40 years and put Britain on a new path. In his first Labour Party conference speech as prime minister, he vowed to pave the way for greater public control over housing, water and energy services. Burnham promised to reform the […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says president Cyril Ramaphosa has been announcing emergency responses to gender-based violence and femicide since 2019, but nothing has changed. In an address to the nation last night, the president announced four measures aimed at strengthening government’s response to gender-based violence and femicide. These include an audit of cases involving […]
# Soccer: The English Premier League says Manchester City arranged “sham” contracts with a number of its commercial partners, as part of a disguised funding scheme to grossly inflate the club’s revenues by around 18-billion-rand. An independent commission found City guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between the 2009-2010 […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has demarched US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell for a third time in nine months. He has been called to explain what the department describes as “undiplomatic conduct”. This comes after he penned an op-ed, criticising president Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for ignoring president Donald Trump administration’s […]
# Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi warned the Film and Publications Board to sharpen its oversight and strengthen the fight against online harms. This comes as South Africa confronts rapid technological change. Earlier this month, the board’s Enforcement Committee announced it had clamped down hard on non-compliance, issuing fines totalling 16.1-million-rand. Malatsi […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed the minister of Police, the National Commissioner of Police and relevant forensic authorities to submit, within 60 days, a funded plan to reduce forensic backlogs in gender-based violence and femicide cases. The president announced a series of measures and directives yesterday evening, following a series of killings of women […]
