# Qatar’s Foreign Ministry says efforts to reach a diplomatic solution between the US and Iran are ongoing, and no direct negotiations between the two sides are scheduled. There have been conflicting statements from both Washington and Tehran on whether talks had resumed. The ministry’s spokesperson, Majed al-Ansari, says mediators are coordinating closely to facilitate […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is taking steps to root out the so-called construction mafia, who are disrupting building sites and new infrastructure projects. The country’s construction industry estimates that 180 public infrastructure projects worth 63-billion-rand have been delayed as a result of extortion, intimidation or violence before the intervention. Speaking at the opening […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse LUR vir Landbou, Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling en Toerisme, Ivan Meyer, sê volhoubare ekonomiese groei vereis doeltreffende vennootskappe tussen die regering en die sakewêreld, en ‘n gedeelde verbintenis tot die instel en lewering daarvan. Hy het ‘n ontmoeting met sakeleiers aangebied. Meyer sê die drie belangrikste punte wat geïdentifiseer is, is die versnelde lewering […]
# Die Motorbedryfpersoneelvereniging bevraagteken of die Nasionale Raad vir Geslagsgeweld en Vrouemoord betekenisvolle verandering sal teweegbring. Die statutêre liggaam het die mandaat om strategiese leierskap te bied wat geslagsgeweld sal uitwis. Die raad is ook verantwoordelik om samewerking tussen verskillende sektore te bevorder in die uitvoering van die nasionale strategie teen geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord. Woordvoerder […]
# Die minister van Menslike Nedersettings, Thembi Simelane, sê die land benodig bekwame staatsamptenare wat die staatsdiens beskou as ‘n roeping en nie slegs ‘n loopbaan nie. Sy sê die land se ontwikkelingsagenda is afhanklik van bekwame instellings, etiese leierskap en ‘n nuwe geslag beroepslui wat daartoe verbind is om in openbare belang te dien. […]
# UK prime minister Andy Burnham is making changes to the government’s early release scheme for prisioners, which will see rapists, serious child sex offenders and grooming gang offenders excluded. It comes after he paused plans to release six-thousand prisoners early next month to ease overcrowding in jails. The country’s adult mens’ prisons are now […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie het ʼn WhatsApp-kieserregistrasiediens bekendgestel om dit makliker te maak vir kwalifiserende landsburgers om te registreer vir November se plaaslike regerings-verkiesing. Meer as 1,7-miljoen mense het die OVK gekontak tydens verlede naweek se kieserregistrasienaweek. Vrydag is die sperdatum vir registrasie. Die OVK se uitvoerende hoof, Sy Mamabolo, sê die WhatsApp-platform laat gebruikers toe […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Taxiraad in Gauteng veroordeel die moord op sy provinsiale hoof van dissipline, Jabulani Ntshangase. Hy is Vrydag in Midrand doodgeskiet en niemand is nog in hegtenis geneem nie. Santaco se woordvoerder, Graham Fritz, sê Ntshangase het die taxibedryf met onderskeiding gedien. Hy vra die polisie om alles in hul vermoë te […]
# Rugby: Springbok assistant coach Deon Davids has quashed suggestions they see Saturday’s one-off Test against the Pumas in Buenos Aires as a warm-up for the series against New Zealand. A 26-man squad has travelled to Argentina while another group remained in Johannesburg to prepare for Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry. Davids says playing Los Pumas with […]
