# MK Party first deputy president Duduzane Zuma has defended the party’s constant leadership changes, saying this should inspire more confidence in voters. Earlier this month, leader Jacob Zuma announced a leadership overhaul, placing his son directly below him in the party hierarchy. The reshuffle also saw several senior MK Party leaders removed or reassigned, […]
# The Philippines has experienced its second fatal school shooting in two months, after a student was shot dead before the alleged killer took his own life today. The shooting took place at a school attached to the privately-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga. According to a preliminary police report, the gunman brought a pistol […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisiekommissaris, Sizakhele Dyantyi, sê hy sal geen verdraagsaamheid toon teenoor beamptes wat omkoopgeld aanvaar of hul mag misbruik nie. ʼn Polisiebeampte wat probeer het om smokkelware by aanhoudingselle by die Mitchell’s Plain-polisiekantoor in te smokkel, is Sondag gearresteer. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Wesley Twigg, sê die beampte was aan die verkeerde kant van die […]
# Rugby: All Blacks coach Dave Rennie says he expects the Springboks to bring a powerful set-piece game and use back-to-back pressure to force mistakes at Ellis Park on Saturday. The tourists go into the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series opener with confidence after beating the Stormers, Sharks and Bulls. New Zealand have added Saula Ma’u […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda het die Valke in die Oos-Kaap en die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag ʼn verbeurdverklaringsbevel van meer as 2,3-miljoen-rand toegestaan. Dit hou verband met ʼn kontantrooftog in Julie 2024 op die pad tussen Kei-weg, Maclean Town en Stutterheim. Die Valke-woordvoerder, Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana, sê vyf verdagtes is tydens die voorval doodgeskiet en vyf ander […]
# Lede van die Voedsel- en Geallieerde Werkersvakbond, Fawu, in die suikervervaardigings- en -raffineringsbedryf het hul staking hervat ná ʼn dooiepunt in salaris-onderhandelings. Honderde werkers, hoofsaaklik in KwaZulu-Natal en ander suikerriet-streke, het hul poste by meulens en verwante bedrywighede verlaat. Die vakbonde FAWU, AMCU en die United Association of South Africa eis onder meer ʼn […]
# Die vakbondfederasie Cosatu sê die bestuursprobleme by die Nasionale Studente Finansiële Hulpskema spoel oor na administratiewe prosesse, en raak duisende studente. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het in ‘n uitspraak verlede week die ontbinde NSFAS-raad heraangestel en professor Hlengani Mathebula se aanstelling as administrateur as irrasioneel verklaar. Cosatu se woordvoerder, Nonzuzo Dlamini, sê die aanstelling […]
# Die Tshwane-metropolisiedepartement sê hy toon geen verdraagsaamheid wat misdadigheid en wangedrag in sy geledere betref nie. Dit volg nadat een van sy konstabels, Peter Nonyane, gearresteer is in verband met ʼn bedrog- en geldwassery-skema met 1,75-miljoen-rand uit ʼn boedel. Die metro se woordvoerder, Isaac Mahamba, sê die saak vestig weer aandag op wetstoepassingsbeamptes en […]
# Business Leadership South Africa CEO, Busisiwe Mavuso, has criticised the Eskom board’s resistance to the unbundling of transmission assets, accusing it of weaponising lender complexity to resist restructuring. Eskom chairperson Mteto Nyati has maintained that the power utility’s financial concerns needed to be dealt with first to enable the creation of an independent transmission […]
