# It took an Airbus A350 exactly 24 hours and 24 minutes to complete a test flight as part of Quantas Airline’s Project Sunrise from Melbourne in Australia to Toulouse in France, setting a new record for a non-stop flight. Qantas has previously indicated that trans-pacific crossings – taking advantage of wind conditions – are […]
# Zimbabwiese gesondheids- en landbou-owerhede het weer gewaarsku teen die onwettige gebruik om antiretrovirale middels vir hoenders te voer om groei te bespoedig. Daily Maverick berig amptenare waarsku die misbruik van die middels hou ‘n ernstige openbare gesondheids-gevaar in en kan lei tot anti-mikrobiese weerstand. Kenners maan pluimveeboere om goedgekeure boerderymetodes te gebruik in plaas […]
# Die Internasionale Handelsadministrasie-kommissie beveel hoër aksynsbelasting aan op ingevoerde grondboontjiebotter, van 99-sent per kilogram tot 25-persent van die waarde. ‘n Ondersoek het bevind stygende invoere, meestal uit Indië, benadeel plaaslike vervaardigers. Die kommissie sê binnelandse produksie, verkope en fabrieks-vermoë het afgeneem weens stygende produksiekoste. Die kommissie het ook ‘n ondersoek gelas na ‘n tydelike […]
# The Southern Africa Litigation Centre says it has a strong legal case against the South African government over arms export permits granted to the United States. The organisation wants the High Court in Pretoria to suspend or overturn the permits, arguing South African-supplied weapons may breach domestic law and undermine international peace and security. […]
# The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation says innovation will be central to achieving industrialisation across the Southern African Development Community. Speaking to the SABC on the sidelines of the SADC’s Industrialisation Week in KwaZulu-Natal, Director-General Mlungisi Cele said science, technology and industrialisation must advance together. He emphasised investment in research, mathematics and science […]
# Die regsgesinde Oversight Project het klankopnames vrygestel waarin die Amerikaanse oudpresident, Joe Biden, erken hy was in besit van geklassifiseerde dokumente ná sy vertrek as visepresident. Sommige van die opnames bevat gesprekke tussen hom en sy spookskrywer, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, wat hom gehelp het met sy memoir, Promise me, Dad, van 2017. Daar is […]
# Die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap is daartoe verbind om oorgrens-transaksies goedkoper en vinniger te maak. Die Angolese kwanza het die tweede betalingseenheid geword om by die elektroniese streeksbetaalstelsel aan te sluit. Hy het 13 jaar lank uitsluitlik die rand gebruik, hoofsaaklik om Suid-Afrika se gevorderde finansiële infrastruktuur te benut. Botswana en Mosambiek sal volgende aansluit. Die […]
# Right-wing Oversight Project has released audio recordings of former US president Joe Biden, in which he acknowledges possessing classified material after leaving office as vice-president. Some of the recordings are of him in conversations with his ghost writer, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, who helped with his 2017 memoir, Promise me, Dad. There are moments where […]
# Zimbabwean health and agriculture authorities have renewed warnings against the illegal practice of feeding antiretroviral medicines to chickens to speed up growth. According to Daily Maverick, officials caution that the misuse of ARVs poses serious public health risks and could contribute to anti-microbial resistance. Experts have urged poultry farmers to follow approved farming practices […]
