# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order modifying tariff rates for over 60 countries, as the new rates on imported goods take effect today. The duties range as high as 41-percent for Syria and 40-percent for Laos and Myanmar. Canada’s tariff rate has risen from 25 to 35-percent. The rate for South […]
# The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Angolan authorities to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the deaths, as well as the reported use of excessive force during the fuel price hike demonstrations. At least 22 people were killed, 200 injured, and over one-thousand detained following protests against a rise […]
# The Pretoria High Court has declared the City of Tshwane’s new cleansing levy as unlawful and invalid, setting it aside. The levy targeted gated communities and shopping malls that do not have existing city waste accounts but use private waste collection services, charging a monthly tariff of 194-rand-37-cents. AfriForum had approached the court to […]
# Build One South Africa welcomes the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to lower the interest rate by 25 basis points to seven-percent. The prime lending rate has been lowered to 10.5-percent. BOSA’s spokesperson, Roger Solomons, says this move brings much-needed relief to millions of citizens struggling under the financial noose of […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo as the Deputy Chief Justice. The position has been vacant since September 2024, when Chief Justice Mandisa Maya assumed her role at the apex of the judiciary. Last month, the Judicial Service Commission recommended Mlambo for the position, after interviewing three judges. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, […]
# US president Donald Trump says that the fastest way to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to surrender and release the hostages. This comes amid growing international concern over reports of mass starvation and worsening conditions in the territory. Sixty-three malnutrition-related deaths were reported in Gaza in July. Meanwhile, White House […]
# The DA has welcomed the guilty finding of the Parliamentary Joint Ethics Committee against deputy president Paul Mashatile. The committee has resolved that the National Assembly should reprimand Mashatile and impose a fine of ten-thousand-rand. This is for his failure to declare a diamond gift to his wife in his financial and registrable interests […]
# Die DA in Mpumalanga het die provinsiale regering se plan verwelkom, om sy eie laboratorium vir DNS-toetsing te bou. Die laboratorium sal gebruik word om die agterstand met toetsing in te haal en doeltreffendheid met misdaadondersoeke te verbeter. DNS-monsters word tans na die Nasionale Forensiese Laboratorium in Pretoria gestuur. Suid-Afrika het ‘n agterstand van […]
# Waarnemende adjunkhoofregter, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, tree vandag af na 17-jaar as regter. Die Konstitusionele Hof hou ‘n spesiale sitting waartydens hy sal uitspraak lewer in die Please Call Me-saak. Madlanga is in 1997 as Suid-Afrika se jongste regter aangestel en sy loopbaanhoogtepunte sluit in die verteenwoordiging van die land by die Internasionale Geregshof in 2004. […]
