# President Cyril Ramaphosa says Botswana can count on South Africa as a reliable neighbour, friend and partner as it continues on a path of modernisation, and towards a future of sustained development and prosperity. He made remarks during a state banquet in Gaborone yesterday evening. The president is on a two-day state visit to […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed a series of breakthroughs in the fight against the Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme fraud. Arrests in Mpumalanga, a conviction in the Free State, and the preservation of assets obtained through the proceeds of crime represent over 27-million-rand in funds that were siphoned from the state. In Mpumalanga, […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal team has started the process of a review application against the Section 89 panel report, which found that he had a case to answer over the burglary at his Phala Phala farm. The legal team has requested permission from Chief Justice Mandisa Maya to serve papers on two former senior […]
# The US government has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro and five others. The criminal charges against the 94-year-old relate to his alleged role in ordering the 1996 shoot-down of two civilian aircraft belonging to the Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, who was Defence minister at the time, is alleged to have […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has argued that he is entitled to adjust the fuel levy as he sees fit and in the public interest, as stated in the Customs and Excise Act. The Western Cape High Court has reserved judgment in the EFF’s application, challenging the Finance minister’s authority to determine and adjust the […]
# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero says, despite the poor state of the metro, his administration has things under control. This comes after minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana raised concerns about poor financial controls in the metro. Delivering this year’s state of the city address yesterday, Morero admitted that Johannesburg’s infrastructure and utility pressures remained severe, stating […]
# National Assembly Speaker, Thoko Didiza, has declined a request by the African Transformation Movement to table a motion of no confidence against president Cyril Ramaphosa. The motion was grounded in a Constitutional Court ruling, which found that Parliament acted unlawfully in blocking the establishment of an impeachment inquiry against the president. In response to […]
# The World Health Organisation warns that it could take up to nine months before a vaccine against the Bundibugyo virus, which is causing an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, is available. There have been 600 suspected cases of Ebola and 139 suspected deaths reported so far. WHO director general, Tedros […]
# Chinese president Xi Jinping has warned against the resumption of military operations in the Middle East, saying this would be unacceptable. US president Donald Trump has threatened to launch another military strike against Iran if a deal to end the war is not reached by the weekend. Xi put forward a four-point proposal for the […]
