# NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says they are working to get Ukraine the air defences it urgently needs. This comes after Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles in an attack on Kyiv yesterday, killing at least 17 people. Reportedly, Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic missile. In the first half of this year, […]
# Mpumalanga police says there is currently no indication of foul play in the deaths of two St Stithians College teenagers. The bodies of 19-year-old Ethan Coetzee and Grade 11 learner Cameron Waldeck-Cooks were discovered at a lodge in Sabie on Monday. Coetzee, who matriculated last year, was a member of the Johannesburg school’s first rugby […]
# Die landbou-organisasie TLU SA waarsku dat die skerp styging in dieselpryse die land se landbousektor sal raak. Dieselpryse het met tussen een-rand-23- en een-rand-38-sent per liter gestyg terwyl die petrolprys met 52-sent gedaal het, aangehelp deur ‘n verlaging in die brandstofheffing. Bennie van Zyl van TLU SA sê die hoër dieselprys dwing hoër pryse […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, demands that ANC veteran Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma retract allegations linking him to vote-buying. In an interview on Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s podcast, African Renaissance, she alleged there was a circulation of a voice note purportedly of Lamola of vote-buying during the ANC’s 54th national conference in 2017. She accused ANC […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare vra die nuut-aangestelde raad van die Openbare Beleggingskorporasie om goeie bestuur die sentrale punt van sy mandaat te maak. Agt raadslede het verlede week bedank. Die korporasie hanteer meer as drie-duisend-miljard-rand van staats-pensioenfondse. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die skorsing van uitvoerende hoof Patrick Dlamini onwettig en ongeldig verklaar. Woordvoerder […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu is bekommerd oor die uitwerking van die verdere dieselprys-verhoging en sê dis ‘n gevoelige slag wat miljoene sukkelende werkers en pendelaars nie kan bekostig nie. Dieselpryse het met tot een-rand-38-sent per liter gestyg. Woordvoerder Matthew Parks sê die regering se vroeëre tydelike opheffing van brandstofheffing was ‘n groot verligting, maar hulle […]
# Die premier van Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, het begunstigdes van nuutgeboude regeringshuise versoek om nie toe te laat dat spaza-winkels van buitelanders vanaf hul eiendomme bedryf word nie. Hy het gister 105 voltooide huise by die Westonaria Borwa Mega-projek in die Wes-Rand oorhandig. Die woordvoerder van die Departement van Menslike Nedersettings, Tahir Sema, sê behuisingsontwikkelings […]
# ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula has strongly denied allegations made by former cabinet minister and party veteran Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma against him. During an appearance on the African Renaissance Podcast, Dlamini-Zuma alleged that Mbalula handed out cash to delegates to secure his election and that of president Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC’s 2022 elective conference. Mbalula […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Plaaslike Regeringsvereniging het die Kabinet se besluit verwelkom om die groen lig te gee vir die Wysigingswetsontwerp op Munisipale Strukture, algemeen bekend as die Koalisiewetswetsontwerp, om in die Parlement ter tafel gelê te word. Die wetsontwerp is daarop gemik om bestendigheid te bring in plaaslike rade waar geen party ‘n volstrekte meerderheid […]
