# ANC National Executive Committee member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says she stands by her statement that money has been used to influence votes in the party. She has filed a notice of intention to oppose ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula’s defamation lawsuit against her, over comments she made on the African Renaissance podcast. She accused Mbalula of […]
# The Gift of the Givers has a team on standby to travel to Nepal to rescue or recover at least six South Africans reported missing following devastating flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border. More than 350 people have died, and over one-thousand-300 are missing, including from India, the US, Australia, Canada and the UK. […]
# The Special Tribunal has ordered former Nkandla project architect Minenhle Makhanya to repay the National Treasury 147.2-million-rand. This is for losses linked to unlawful conduct during the security upgrades at former president Jacob Zuma’s private residence. The tribunal found that Makhanya’s appointment was unlawful and that he authorised work beyond the security requirements for […]
# Die Reserwebank het twee herdenkingsmuntstukke bekendgestel ter ere van die nalatenskap van Charlotte Maxeke en die vroue-optog na die Uniegebou in 1956. Die een twee-rand-muntstuk vier 125 jaar sedert Maxeke die eerste swart Suid-Afrikaanse vrou geword het om ‘n universiteitsgraad te bekom. Die tweede herdenk 70 jaar sedert die geskiedkundige optog teen apartheids-paswette. President […]
# Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, David Maynier, verwelkom die inhegtenisneming van twee mans op die OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe in Gauteng vir beweerde wildsmokkelary. ‘n Vyftigjarige Thaise burger het 50 voël-eiers versteek in ‘n tuisgemaakte broeikassak. ‘n Drie-en-twintigjarige landgenoot het na bewering probeer om 418 papegaai-eiers in twee tuisgemaakte broeikasakke deur […]
# Soil of Africa vra sterker nasionale finansiële opvoedingsprogramme en verbruikersbeskerming, veral in townships en landelike gebiede. Dit is tans Geldslimweek met die tema: “Geldslim: Die krag van Moontlikheid”. Woordvoerder Luzuko Sofute sê finansiële opvoeding moet na gemeenskappe geneem word in ‘n taal wat hul verstaan. Hy meen ‘n dieper kennis van geldsake kan persone […]
# Krieket: Suid-Afrika speel môre teen die gasheer in die openingswedstryd van die T20-driehoekige reeks in die Namibiese hoofstad, Windhoek. Die ander deelnemer is die ander mede-gasheer van volgende jaar se eendag-Wêreldbekertoernooi, Zimbabwe. Elke span meet twee keer kragte met die ander twee en die twee top-spanne speel in volgende Sondag se eindstryd. Björn Fortuin […]
# Qatar’s prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, will meet with Iranian officials in Tehran today to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions and create conditions conducive to dialogue. Qatar has been an important mediator in the US-Iranian conflict. It’s Foreign Ministry says talks will cover regional security, freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz […]
# The self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will stand trial in the US from June 2028. He is accused of orchestrating the plot to fly hijacked passenger jetliners into New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington on 11 September 2001, killing two-thousand-976 people. Mohammed and two co-accused had […]
