# Die United Africans Transformation het Amerikaanse president Donald Trump veroordeel na die besluit om steun aan Suid-Afrika te beëindig en dit as neo-koloniale onderdrukking beskryf. Dit volg nadat Trump onlangs ‘n belofte van 18-miljard-rand vir Suid-Afrika se enrgie-oorgang gestaak het. Wonder Mahlatsi van die party maak ‘n beroep op Afrika-nasies om te verenig, hulle […]
# Eskom will implement Stage 3 load-shedding from two this afternoon and anticipates to be in this mode until Monday morning at five, due to loss of two-thousand-700 Megawatts over the past 14 hours.
# The Western Cape government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Business Initiative to advance climate and economic development, backed by Denmark. Provincial MEC for Agriculture, Economic Development and Tourism, Ivan Meyer, emphasised climate change as a top priority, highlighting the province’s rapid renewable energy growth. Meyer says that the agreement, funded […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa has condemned RCL Foods’ 226-percent profit surge calling it exploitation. While revenues hit 34.4-billion-rand, workers reportedly earn poverty wages, and 13-million South Africans go hungry. GIWUSA is demanding a 15-thousand-rand minimum wage, food price regulation, an end to food waste, and the nationalisation of monopolies:
# Union federation Cosatu has welcomed Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s call for government to cover the funding shortfall left by the US’s decision to end the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief support. With 500-thousand HIV/Aids patients relying on the programme, Cosatu’s Matthew Parks urges Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to allocate funds in the budget:
# The United Africans Transformation has strongly condemned US president Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to halt aid to South Africa, calling it neo-colonial oppression. This follows Trump’s recent halt of 18-billion-rand pledged funding for South Africa’s energy transition. The party’s Wonder Mahlatsi has urged African nations to unite, protect their mineral wealth, and reject foreign economic […]
# Die Verenigde Koninkryk het 6,4-miljoen-rand toegewy ter ondersteuning van ‘n studie deur die Energieraad van Suid-Afrika oor die nodige hervormings vir die daarstelling van ‘n groothandel-elektrisiteitsmark. Die studie, wat tydens die Britse klimaats-afgevaardigde Rachel Kyte se besoek aan Kaapstad aangekondig is, sluit in tariefmodellering, regsbepalings en finansiële risiko-evaluerings. Die befondsing strook met Suid-Afrika se […]
# The United Kingdom has committed 6.4-million-rand to support a study by the Energy Council of South Africa on reforms needed to implement a wholesale electricity market. Announced during UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte’s visit to Cape Town, the study includes tariff modeling, legal assessments, and financial risk evaluations. The funding aligns with South Africa’s […]
# Professor Lekan Ayo-Yusuf van die Universiteit van Pretoria waarsku die tabakbedryf het sy oog op Afrika. Hy beweer die bedryf buit regulatoriese skuiwergate uit en teiken ʼn snelgroeiende jeugbevolking met nuwe nikotienprodukte. Ayo-Yusuf sê die bedryf bemark produkte soos e-sigarette, verhitte tabakprodukte, snuif en ander rooklose alternatiewe as veiliger keuses aan jongmense. Hy vra […]
