# The Build One South Africa board has resolved to terminate the membership of the party’s Gauteng Provincial Legislature member, Ayanda Allie. This follows the conclusion of an internal disciplinary process. Board chairperson Stevens Mokgalapa says the issues giving rise to these proceedings have been under consideration since BOSA first indicated its intention to institute […]
# All eyes will be on the Western Cape High Court today for the judgment on president Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent application to halt Parliament’s Impeachment Committee. He wants to pause the committee’s work until the finalisation of his bid to set aside the Section 89 report, which found he had a case to answer on […]
# The MK Party says it will file a criminal case against the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption head, Andrea Johnson, following her testimony at the Madlanga Commission. She admitted to giving inconsistent testimony when she appeared before Parliament’s ad hoc committee last year, which investigated the underworld’s infiltration of the criminal justice system. The MK […]
# As renewed strikes between the US and Iran continue to escalate, oil prices hit one-thousand-679-rand-39-cents a barrel for the first time since May yesterday. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, rose more than six-percent. Prices spiked after the Houthi militants based in Yemen struck two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea, days after […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking sê Suid-Afrika bly verbind tot oop, opbouende en doelgerigte gesprekke met die Ekonomiese Gemeenskap van Wes-Afrika-state, veral oor streeksbestendigheid en migrasiebestuur. ECOWAS veroordeel xenofobiese aanvalle teen Wes-Afrikane in Suid-Afrika en steun ‘n voorstel om die kwessie op die Afrika-unie se vergadering te bespreek. Die departement se woordvoerder, […]
# Hockey: Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has approved three-million-rand in emergency funding for both the men’s and women’s national teams to cover their participation in next month’s World Cup in Belgium and the Netherlands. In an open letter, women’s national team player Onthatile Zulu revealed players were expected to contribute towards […]
# Die George-munisipaliteit se kredietbeheer-afdeling is tot 7 Augustus besig met ʼn deernis-registrasieveldtog in landelike en plaasgemeenskappe. Die munisipaliteit se woordvoerder, Chantel Edwards-Klose, sê die doel van die veldtog is om inwoners in te lig oor die munisipaliteit se goedgekeurde Deernis- en Kredietbeheer-beleid, en die vereistes om vir verligtingshulp te kwalifiseer en te registreer. Sy […]
# Financial inclusion among Namibian adults increased to 86-percent last year from 78-percent in 2017. The Namibian Statistics Agency’s Namibia Financial Inclusion Survey shows 81.5-percent of adults now use formal financial services. However, the proportion of adults who borrowed money increased to 49.0-percent last year, up from 42.1-percent in 2017. The agency’s Mirjam Shihepo says the […]
# Iran has accused the US of using Pickaxe Mountain as a pretext for further attacks. This is believed to be an underground nuclear site where Tehran is suspected of building an undeclared enrichment facility. US president Donald Trump earlier this week threatened to attack the facility soon. Iran has warned any American attack on its […]
