# Die DA sê die minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, se Nasionale Gesondheidsversekeringsprogram is bewys as uitsluitlik ideologies en tot nadeel van die werkersklas. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het die departement se NGV-befondsingsplan gekritiseer en sê dis ‘n aanval op die middelklas weens die voorstel om mediese belastingkrediete te skrap. Michele Clarke van […]
# Die Stad Johannesburg het ‘n Sunday Times-artikel met die opskrif, Workers’ R4bn G20 blackmail, heeltemal verwerp. Die artikel beweer die metro het vier-miljard-rand van sy kapitaaluitgawebegroting aangewend om ‘n betoging deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Munisipale Werkersunie om die G20-leiersberaad te ontwrig, te voorkom. Burgemeester Dada Morero se woordvoerder, Khathutshelo Mulaudzi, sê die artikel is deurspek […]
# The Gauteng Education Department has refuted a Sunday World article titled, “Matric exams at risk amid alleged Gauteng school security tender corruption – DA”. The article questions the integrity of the National Senior Certificate examinations in the province following allegations of widespread corruption in the school security tenders. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says […]
# The US State Department says it will designate Cartel de los Soles, a Venezuelan cartel, as a foreign terrorist organisation, effective from next Monday. This comes as America has ramped up its military presence in the Caribbean, including with the arrival of the world’s largest aircraft carrier on Sunday. The US alleges that the […]
# Civil society organisations say that without the input of ordinary people, the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg this weekend risks prioritising the interests of elites and perpetuating the status quo. The summit will be the first to be held on the African continent and will feature dignitaries from the world’s wealthiest countries. Nearly half […]
# Golf: Five-time major champion Rory McIlroy has won the Race to Dubai title for the fourth consecutive year and seventh time in his career. This is after the Northern Irishman finished as the runner-up in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, which England’s Matt Fitzpatrick won in a playoff. Switzerland’s Ludvig Åberg and […]
# The White House has refuted International Relations and Cooperation minister Ronald Lamola’s claims that president Donald Trump’s administration is pursuing a white supremacy agenda. This is in relation to the changes to the US refugee programme. Lamola told CNN that the programme to take white Afrikaners from South Africa is a clear agenda to […]
# The Special Investigating Unit says the ruling by the Bisho High Court on the probe into the awarding of degrees at the University of Fort Hare does not prevent it from continuing with its investigation. The court ruled in favour of Eastern Cape premier, Oscar Mabuyane, in stopping the SIU from investigating him in […]
# At least 32 people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a bridge at a copper and cobalt mine collapsed due to overcrowding. Over 20 people were injured. The Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Support and Guidance Service says gunfire from soldiers sparked panic among the illegal miners at the Kalando […]
