# Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, says mineral beneficiation must sit at the absolute centre of Africa’s economic conversation. The continent holds about 30-percent of the world’s most critical mineral deposits, including cobalt, lithium, copper, rare earths, and platinum group metals. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Southern African Development Community Industrial […]
# Die vakverbond Saftu veroordeel Amerika se jongste besluit om nuwe handelstariewe teen Suid-Afrika en tientalle ander lande in te stel omdat hulle na bewering nie dwangarbeid keer of doeltreffend bekamp nie. Die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger het tariewe van 12,5-persent teen Suid-Afrika ingestel. Volgens Saftu se woordvoerder, Asive Dyani, het die land herhaaldelik bewys hy het ‘n […]
# Meer as 160 mense is sedert die sesde Julie in Frankryk aangehou of ondervra oor doelbewuste brandstigting. Sowat 220-duisend mense in Frankryk en meer as 100-duisend in Spanje is ontruim terwyl brandbestryders sukkel om die veldbrande te midde van ‘n hittegolf te beheer. Frankryk se eerste minister, Sébastien Lecornu, sê die brande is hoofsaaklik […]
# Dokters Sonder Grense sê die geweld teen migrante het ʼn mediese humanitêre krisis veroorsaak by die Suid-Afrikaanse grenspos-dorpe, Musina en Beitbrug. Meer as 68-duisend buitelandse burgers in Suid-Afrika is sedert Junie vir repatriasie of deportasie verwerk. Die organisasie se woordvoerder, Caroline Masunda, sê hulle is bekommerd dat toegang tot gesondheidsorg vir mense wat aan […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions has strongly condemned the latest unilateral decision by the US to impose new trade tariffs on South Africa and dozens of other countries, for allegedly failing to prohibit or effectively combat forced labour. The US Trade Representative has imposed tariffs of 12.5-percent on South Africa. Saftu’s Asive […]
# More than 160 people have been detained or questioned over deliberately starting fires in France since the sixth of this month. Some 220-thousand people have been evacuated in France and more than 100-thousand in Spain as firefighters battle to contain the wildfires amidst a heatwave. France’s Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, says the fires mostly […]
# Doctors Without Borders says the emergency medical humanitarian response to anti-migrant violence has escalated into a humanitarian crisis at the South Africa-Zimbabwe border towns of Musina and Beitbridge. More than 68-thousand foreign nationals have been processed for repatriation or deportation in South Africa since June. MSF’s Caroline Masunda says they are concerned about access […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika sê hy het besluit om voorlopig aanvalle op Iran te staak omdat die lande wat as bemiddelaars optree, weer vir vredesonderhandelings gevra het. Die onderbreking volg na twee weke se volskaalse Amerikaanse aanvalle en wraakaanvalle deur Teheran. Iran ontken dat regstreekse onderhandelings plaasvind. Trump waarsku dat hulle aanvalle sal […]
# Die Britse eerste minister, Andy Burnham, sê hulle sal nie terugstaan voor ʼn blywende en regverdige vrede in Oekraïne bereik word nie. Hy het die Oekraïnse president, Volodymyr Zelensky, gister by die Portsmouth-vlootbasis ontvang. Die twee leiers het met meer as 200 Oekraïnse militêre personeel vergader wat deel was van ʼn vloot-veiligheidsoperasie in Brittanje. […]
