# North-West businessman Suliman Carrim is due to appear in the Musina Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo today. He is facing additional charges of attempted theft and money laundering linked to two vehicles belonging to Absa. Carrim is currently in custody awaiting the bail judgment in another matter where he faces charges of contravening the Commissions […]
# Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov says Russia is prepared to resume trilateral negotiations with the US and Ukraine, focusing on establishing a postwar security framework. This follows Russian president Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US president Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, in the Russian city of St. Petersburg yesterday. Moscow has refused talks for months, […]
# French president Emmanuel Macron has accused foreign leaders of making “stupid comments” about the country’s unrest for political gain. Protests over the state of education and cost of living in France have since spiralled into nationwide violence and rioting, with more than two-thousand people arrested this past weekend alone. US president Donald Trump claimed migrants, […]
# Cricket: Australia reached 156 for four in their second innings and trail South Africa by 170 runs at stumps on the penultimate day of the second Test in Gqeberha. The Proteas bowlers skittled out the visitors for 99 in their first innings, to enforce the follow-on, with Marco Jansen taking five wickets. South Africa declared […]
# The EFF has accused minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana of misusing his fiscal policy powers by arbitrarily increasing or decreasing the fuel levy without parliamentary approval. While tabling the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament yesterday, the minister announced a reduction in the general fuel levy. The levy will be reduced by three-rand per […]
# The ANC has welcomed the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, specifically praising the ten-billion-rand fuel relief and the continued backing for over 18-million social grant recipients. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana tabled the budget in Parliament yesterday, where he announced a reduction in the general fuel levy. ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the minister is correct […]
# Media organisations, amaBhungane, News24 and Daily Maverick have warned against allowing intelligence agencies to dictate what information is revealed to the Madlanga Commission. This is over an in-camera application for the head of the national intelligence coordinating committee, Ntandazo Sifolo. Evidence leaders have argued that his testimony involves sensitive information that should be heard […]
# US special envoy Steve Witkoff has asked Russian president Vladimir Putin to consider several proposals agreed in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, including renewing trilateral peace talks with Ukraine to try to end the war. Witkoff met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Oslo on Tuesday and Putin in St. Petersburg, Russia, yesterday. Zelensky stated that […]
# Kaelo Health Insurance sê Suid-Afrika se mark vir gesondheidsversekering groei omdat stygende mediese fondsbydraes vir privaat gesondheidsorg onbekostigbaar raak vir werkende mense. Die grootste mediese fondse verhoog hul tariewe volgende jaar met tussen sewe- en nege-persent, meer as dubbel die riglyne van die Raad vir Mediese Skemas. Jordan Bortz van Kaelo sê werkers sonder […]
