# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die minister van Verdediging en Militêre Veterane, Angie Motshekga, as waarnemende president aangestel, aangesien beide die president en adjunkpresident, Paul Mashatile, tans in die buiteland is. Ramaphosa het Woensdag ‘n amptelike besoek aan Ierland afgelê en sal vandag die Global Gateway Forum in Brussel, België, bywoon. Mashatile is op ‘n […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Defence and Military Veterans minister, Angie Motshekga, to serve as acting president, as both the president and deputy president, Paul Mashatile, are currently out of the country. Ramaphosa undertook an official visit to Ireland on Wednesday and will today attend the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels, Belgium. Mashatile is […]
# Rusland sê die momentum om ‘n vredesooreenkoms in Oekraïne te bereik, na Vladimir Putin en Donald Trump se presidensiële beraad in Alaska, het grootliks verdwyn. Die twee leiers het in Augustus ontmoet, maar kon geen ooreenkoms bereik oor die beëindiging van die drie-en-‘n-half jaar lange oorlog nie. Diplomatieke pogings het sedertdien ook misluk, met […]
# Nelson Mandela se kleinseun, Mandla Mandela, het die swak behandeling deur Israelse soldate beskryf nadat die Israelse Vloot hulle bote onderskep het. Hy sê hulle is kos geweier, geboei, geparadeer en hardhandig hanteer toe hulle in Asjdod aangekom het. Mandela sê Israelse owerhede het ook die 22-jarige Sweedse aktivis Greta Thunberg geteister. Hy beskryf […]
# Die Internasionale Komitee van die Rooikruis berig meer as 80-persent van gesondheidsorgfasiliteite in die ooste van die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo, het hulle voorraad noodsaaklike medisyne uitgeput, met geweld wat onverpoosd voortduur. ‘n Vredesooreenkoms wat in Junie deur die VSA bemiddel is tussen die DRK en Rwanda, het nog nie in werking getree nie. […]
# Die Europese Unie het Europese ondernemings in kritieke sektore aangesê om die gebruik van kunsmatige intelligensie te verhoog en het hul ook aangespoor om hul afhanklikheid van buitelandse KI-verskaffers te verminder. Die EU is wel agter teenoor Amerika en China, maar Brussel glo hy kan steeds meeding in die globale KI-wedloop. Die Europese Kommissie […]
# Russia says the momentum towards reaching a peace deal in Ukraine, following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s presidential summit in Alaska, had largely gone. The two leaders met in August, but failed to reach any kind of agreement on ending the three-and-a-half year war. Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have since floundered, with […]
# Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, has illustrated the ill treatment by the Israeli soldiers after their boats were intercepted by the Israeli Navy. Mandla says they were denied food, handcuffed, paraded, and harshly treated upon arrival in Ashdod. He added that activist Greta Thunberg, aged 22, was also harassed by Israeli authorities. He described […]
# The World Trade Organisation has sharply cut its 2026 global merchandise trade growth forecast to 0.5-percent, down from 1.8-percent. The organisation cites delayed effects of US president Donald Trump’s tariffs. WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warned of a bleak outlook but said the global trading system remains resilient. For 2025, the WTO raised its forecast […]
