# National Treasury director-general Duncan Pieterse says South Africa remains on course to meet its fiscal targets, despite the economic uncertainty caused by the ongoing Middle East conflict. The country’s debt-to-gross domestic product ratio stabilised in February for the first time since before the 2008 global financial crisis and is expected to decrease to 76.5-percent […]
# Israeli Defence minister, Israel Katz, says the country’s growing export figures reinforce its position as a leading defence-technology power. Israel’s defence exports reached a record 314-billion-rand in 2025, marking the fifth consecutive year of growth, more than doubling in five years and quadrupling in a decade. The growth was largely driven by missile, rocket, […]
# The DA says the crisis within the country’s criminal justice system is not merely a departmental failure, but a failure of governance. South Africa recorded a nearly ten-percent drop in murders between January and March this year; however, more than five-thousand-100 people were still killed, an average of 58 killings every day. Speaking in […]
# ANC chief whip, Mdumiseni Ntuli, says they strongly reject xenophobia, vigilantism, and the demonisation of African migrants. There has been growing anti-illegal immigration protest activity across parts of the country, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, in recent weeks. Speaking during the tabling of the Presidency’s budget in the National Assembly yesterday, Ntuli said they […]
# Employment and Labour minister, Nomakhosazana Meth says despite signs of economic stabilisation and improving investor confidence, South Africa continues to face a massive job crisis. The country’s official unemployment rate rose to 32.7-percent in the first quarter of this year. Meth says her department is intensifying efforts to tackle unemployment through a combination of […]
# Ukraine’s Foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, says the latest strikes by Russia show president Vladimir Putin is running out of options. Moscow launched massive missile and drone attacks in Kyiv and the central city of Dnipro yesterday morning, killing at least 22 people, including two children. Russia says the systematic strikes were retaliation for last month’s […]
# Schools in the Eden and Central Karoo districts of the Western Cape will be closed today and tomorrow. This is due to the South African Weather Service issuing a Level 8 Orange warning for heavy rainfall and potential widespread flooding for parts of the Western and Eastern Cape. Western Cape Education MEC, David Maynier, […]
# Die Johannesburgse Eiendomsmaatskappy verwerp bewerings wat die Proton House-skikkingsooreenkoms verbind met politieke ontwikkelinge binne die Stad Johannesburg. Die voormalige burgemeester, Mpho Phalatse, het beweer die skikking was korrup en fondse wat met die saak verband hou, is vir onbehoorlike politieke doeleindes gebruik. Die maatskappy sê die skikking was ‘n wettige kontraktuele besluit en nie […]
# Gun Free South Africa sê vuurwapenlisensie-aansoeke het skerp toegeneem, met kommer oor misdaad, geweld en persoonlike veiligheid wat meer Suid-Afrikaners aanmoedig om vuurwapens te besit. Die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Vuurwapenbeheer, wat voorstel selfverdediging moenie meer as ‘n geldige rede vir die besit van ‘n vuurwapen beskou word nie, is terugverwys vir verdere raadpleging ná openbare […]
