# Athletics: The World Athletics Council has approved new regulations regarding eligibility conditions for competing in the female category in world ranking competitions. Athletes who wish to compete in the female category from September will be required to undergo a one-time test for the SRY gene, a reliable indicator of biological sex. The new regulations […]
# The DA says minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau’s comment suggesting a reset in trade relations with the USA is inevitable, is deeply concerning. South Africa’s trade team is mounting a last-ditch campaign ahead of Friday’s deadline to prevent a punishing 30-percent blanket tariff on exports to America. The DA’s Toby Chance […]
# Employment and Labour Deputy minister, Judith Nemadzinga-Tshabalala, says geopolitical division and escalating trade tensions are threatening to unravel decades of carefully woven economic interdependence. She delivered an address at the 4th G20 Employment Working Group meeting in the Western Cape. She says a sudden, severe tariff imposition by a major trading partner, the US, has cast […]
# The SACP in KwaZulu-Natal says, despite an improved relationship with the ANC, its resolution to contest the local government elections independently will not change. The SACP provincial executive committee last year expressed dissatisfaction with its ANC provincial counterpart for allegedly sidelining tripartite alliance partners in making key decisions. The SACP KZN secretary, Themba Mthembu, says […]
# The EFF has strongly rejected the Eskom Debt Relief Amendment Bill, saying the current debt relief approach prioritises lenders over ordinary South Africans. The legislation passed in the National Council of Provinces on Wednesday adjusts the Eskom debt relief allocation for the 2025/2026 financial year from 40-billion-rand to 80.2-billion-rand. It also introduces a further […]
# The Hamas-run Health Ministry says seven more people have died from malnutrition. This takes the total death toll from a lack of food since October 2023 to 154, among them 89 children. Israel has come under mounting pressure from the international community to break its blockade, allow aid into Gaza, and end the war. […]
# The National Council of Provinces has passed the Appropriation Bill, a key part of the national budget. The legislation outlines how government funds will be allocated among various departments for the 2025/2026 financial year. Fifty-one NCOP members voted in support of the bill, nine against, including the EFF and the MK Party, and there […]
# Die Noordwes-Universiteit is benoem as een van die top drie universiteite in Suid-Afrika in die kategorie Beste Loopbaandiens by die toekennings van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir die indiensneming van Gegradueerdes. Die toekennings vier uitnemendheid en innovasie by nagraadse indiensneming en ontwikkeling. Die kategorie Beste Loopbaandiens word bepaal deur terugvoer van werkgewers en nagraadse studente, […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse LUR van Plaaslike Regering, Omgewingsake en Ontwikkelingsbeplanning, Anton Bredell, sê die Franco Three Fountains-natuurreservaat beskerm unieke ekosisteme en bedreigde spesies. Die 20-hektaar natuurreservaat, geleë in die Klein Dassenberg-kleinhoewegebied naby Kaapstad, is as ‘n beskermde gebied verklaar. Dit is die eerste beskermde gebied wat toegewy is aan die beskerming van die seldsame en […]
