# Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have expressed concerns about the renewed hostilities between the US and Iran. Asian countries have been the hardest hit by Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical route for about 60-percent of the region’s energy supply. In a joint statement, ASEAN says […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, verwelkom Transnet se versoek vir vennote in die privaat sektor om ‘n belangrike veeldoelige terminaal in die Kaapstadse hawe te herontwikkel en bedryf. Privaat vennote word genooi ingevolge ‘n konsessie van 25-jaar. Dit volg op ander onlangse versoeke vir privaat sektorvoorstelle om die beweeglike grootmaat- en koue bergingsterminaal te […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has welcomed Transnet’s call for private sector partners to redevelop and operate a key multi-purpose terminal at the port of Cape Town. This will be done under a 25-year concession. This follows recent calls for private sector proposals to operate the liquid bulk terminal and cold storage terminal. Hill-Lewis […]
# Die Vryemarkstigting het aangesluit by die regsgeding teen die Onteieningswet nadat hy as vriend van die hof toegelaat is in ‘n Hooggeregshof-aansoek wat AfriForum en die Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge aanhangig gemaak het. Martin van Staden van die stigting voer aan die bepaling wat toelaat dat eiendom sonder vergoeding onteien mag word, is ongrondwetlik en […]
# The Free Market Foundation joined the legal challenge against the Expropriation Act after being admitted as a friend of the court in a High Court application brought by AfriForum and the Institute of Race Relations. The Foundation’s Martin van Staden argues that the Act’s provision allowing property to be expropriated for zero compensation is […]
# The South African Rooibos Council has launched the Rooibos in Space project, which will send Rooibos seeds to the International Space Station in October to study how space affects plant growth. The initiative, supported by the South African National Space Agency and MaxIQ Space, will involve learners from seven Cederberg schools in the Western […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Rooibosraad het die “Rooibos in die Ruimte”-projek van stapel gestuur, wat Rooibos-saad in Oktober na die Internasionale Ruimtestasie sal stuur om te vas te stel hoe die ruimte plantegroei beïnvloed. Die inisiatief, ondersteun deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Ruimteagentskap en MaxIQ Space, sal leerders van sewe Sederberg-skole in die Wes-Kaap betrek wat die […]
# Die Gautengse LUR vir Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling, Landbou en Landelike Ontwikkeling, Vuyiswa Ramokgopa, sê die provinsiale varkbedryf het meer as tien-miljoen-rand verloor ná sewe uitbrekings van Afrika-varkpes in Tshwane sedert November verlede jaar. Meer as 69-duisend varke is geraak in handels- en kleinskaalse boerderye, waarvan ongeveer 60-duisend vankant gemaak moes word. Bronwynn Engelbrecht van die […]
# Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Agriculture and Rural Development MEC, Vuyiswa Ramokgopa, says the provincial pork industry has lost over ten-million-rand following seven outbreaks of African swine fever in Tshwane since November last year. Over 69-thousand pigs have been affected in commercial and smaller-scale farming operations, with approximately 60-thousand culled. The DA’s Bronwynn Engelbrecht says African […]
