# Die EFF verwerp die aanstelling van die Nywerheidsontwikkelingskorporasie se raad en sê dis ʼn voorbeeld van begunstiging en ʼn teken van voortgesette korrupsie. Die party het die aanstelling van Ayanda Dlodlo, Nomusa Dube-Ncube en Sydney Mufamadi veroordeel en sê dit wys hoe die ANC voortgaan om staatsinstellings te kaap deur politieke lojaliteit eerder as […]
# Die Kaapstadse se stadsraad het die stad se Invested in Hope-begroting vir 2025/2026 aanvaar. Dit sluit verskeie maatreëls in om plaaslike belasting te verlig, asook ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse rekord 40-miljard-rand-infrastruktuurprogram oor drie jaar. Ook ingesluit is ‘n groot belegging in woonbuurt-polisiëring in elke wyk en die uitbreiding van skoonmaakdienste vir hoofpaaie en stadskerne. Die burgemeester […]
# Die GOOD-party verwelkom die inhegtenisneming van die Misdaadintelligensiehoof, Dumisani Khumalo, en sê senior lede van wetstoepassing moet aan die hoogste standaarde van integriteit en aanspreeklikheid voldoen. Khumalo is aangekeer in verband met vermeende onregmatige senior aanstellings in die SAPD-misdaadintelligensie-afdeling. GOOD se sekretaris-generaal, Brett Herron, sê korrupsie en misdadigheid kan nie toegelaat word by diegene […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has signed an agreement with the Council of Europe to create a special tribunal. The tribunal aims to target senior Russian leaders for the crime of aggression, which underpins the countless war crimes Ukraine accuses Russian forces of committing since the start of the war in February 2022. Zelensky says […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Taylor Fritz is through to the semifinals as he bids for a fourth Eastbourne title. The American defeated countryman Marcos Giron, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, to book a last-four clash with Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina today. France’s Ugo Humbert and American Jenson Brooksby put an end to British hopes by defeating Billy […]
# Olympic Games: International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry says there is overwhelming support among members to protect the female category in sport. This follows the controversy around the Paris 2024 boxing tournament after two athletes, Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting, won gold medals. This is despite having been disqualified from the previous year’s World […]
# Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says America’s strikes did not accomplish anything significant to disrupt the country’s nuclear programme. President Donald Trump has claimed the strikes on three sites obliterated Iran’s nuclear capability; however, a leaked US intelligence report suggests that the damage may not be as severe. In his first public address […]
# Former National Union of Mineworkers deputy president Phillip Vilakazi has been elected as the union’s new president, unseating Dan Balepile by a difference of 80 votes at the 18th National Congress in Boksburg. Balepile was running for a second term. Olihile Kgwari is the new deputy president, Mpho Phakedi is the general secretary, and […]
# The DA has welcomed the arrest of Crime Intelligence boss, Dumisani Khumalo, in connection with alleged unlawful senior appointments. This follows the arrest of several other senior officers from the Crime Intelligence division earlier this month, including chief financial officer Philani Lushaba, in connection with an alleged cover-up of a burglary and the alleged […]
