# The EFF has welcomed the decision of the Makhanda High Court in the Eastern Cape to grant Julius Malema leave to appeal his conviction in the firearm matter. He was found guilty of contravening the Firearms Control Act last year, and handed an effective five years in direct imprisonment in April. In 2018, Malema […]
# The World Health Organisation says health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient care. With eight-thousand-and-67 confirmed cases and three-thousand-901 deaths, the case fatality rate is more than 48-percent in 63 affected health zones in seven out of DRC’s 26 provinces. World Health Organisation doctor Janet […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country must confront the uncomfortable, devastating truth that the primary gender-based violence hotspot is in the home and in interpersonal relationships. A national study by the South African Medical Research Council found that an intimate partner killed more than 60-percent of women murdered in 2021 and 2022. In an […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the violence inflicted upon the women of South Africa is a source of profound pain and national shame. He addressed the nation last night, outlining what the government is doing to confront gender-based violence and femicide in the country. This follows the discovery of the bodies of eleven women in […]
# The US has banned nearly 16.4-billion-rand worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles. This is in retaliation for Canada’s implementation of tariffs on a range of American goods earlier this month following a breakdown in trade talks. About 93-percent of all Canadian liquor exports in 2025 were sold to the […]
# Die regering vra Suid-Afrikaners om bloed te skenk aangesien die bloedvoorraad onder druk verkeer. Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Bloeddiens benodig drie-duisend-500 eenhede per dag om voorraad van vyf dae vir elke bloedgroep te handhaaf. Die diens beklemtoon bloed kan nie vervaardig word nie, en met ‘n beperkte rakleeftyd is gereelde skenkings noodsaaklik om hospitale van […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare is ontsteld oor die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid se onthullings van meer as twee-miljard-rand se onreëlmatige kontrakte in die Departement van Verdediging. Die SOE het onder meer ‘n kontrak van 217-miljoen-rand uitgewys vir die verkryging van ‘n Alpha-2 Covid-19-teenmiddel van Kuba. Claude Naicker van die vakbond sê onreëlmatige uitgawes van dié omvang […]
# Rugby: Springbok-kaptein Siya Kolisi het by die Stormers aangesluit na sy terugkeer van internasionale diens en kan oorweeg word vir Vrydag se Verenigde Rugby-kampioenskapswedstryd teen Edinburgh in Skotland. Hy keer terug nadat hy in 2021 by die Haaie aangesluit en die Franse span Racing 92 verteenwoordig het voor hy in 2024 na Durban teruggekeer […]
# Gholf: Vier mans is op die kortlys vir inhuldiging in die Wêreldheldesaal volgende jaar. Hulle is Justin Rose van Engeland, Adam Scott van Australië en die Amerikaners Cory Pavin en Jim Furyk. Rose het die Amerikaanse Ope in 2013 gewen, Scott het die Meesterstitel in dieselfde jaar verower, Pavin het in 1995 die Amerikaanse […]
