# Die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Dina Pule, sê haar departement sal voortgaan om nou saam met Interpol Suid-Afrika en ander relevante wetstoepassingsagentskappe te werk om gevalle van kinderhandel aan te spreek. Dit volg nadat twee Suid-Afrikaanse meisies van onderskeidelik 9 en 15 jaar oud, wat in 2024 in Malawi verkoop is, veilig gerepatrieer is. […]
# Die Amerikaanse feminis, joernalis en politieke aktivis, Gloria Steinem, is op 92-jarige ouderdom oorlede. Sy het in die laat 1960’s en vroeë 1970’s die gesig van die tweede fase van vroueregte geword en was meer as 50 jaar gelede medestigter van die Women’s Action Alliance, ‘n groep wat toegewy is aan die stryd teen […]
# Israel’s Defence minister, Israel Katz, says that while the new US economic sanctions against Iran appear to be effective, the increased pressure could lead Tehran into extreme measures. Last month, the US Treasury announced a new series of sanctions to suffocate the Iranian economy. The US military has also resumed strikes against Tehran. In […]
# Government has secured around 5.6-billion-rand in concessional loan financing to support National Treasury’s Metro Trading Services Reform programme. The funding comes from the German and French Development Cooperation via KfW Development Bank and the French Development Agency. The programme is aimed at turning around electricity, water and sanitation, and solid waste management in South […]
# Minister of Social Development Dina Pule says her department will continue to work closely with Interpol South Africa and other relevant law enforcement agencies in addressing cases of trafficking in children. This comes after two South African girls, aged 9 and 15, who were trafficked to Malawi in 2024, were safely repatriated. Minister Pule says the alleged trafficking involved a couple comprising a […]
# American feminist, journalist, and political activist Gloria Steinem has passed away at the age of 92. She became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s and co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance, a group dedicated to fighting sexism, more than 50 years ago. In 2013, then-president Barack Obama awarded her […]
# Die vakbond Solidariteit het die verlenging van die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika tot die einde van 2028 verwelkom. Die vakbond is egter bekommerd Suid-Afrika kan van die program uitgesluit word. Hy waarsku die verlies van AGOA-toegang kan die motor- en landboubedrywe benadeel en duisende werksgeleenthede kos. Jaco Kleynhans van Solidariteit het […]
# Trade union Solidarity has welcomed the extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act until the end of 2028. However, the union is concerned that South Africa could be excluded from the programme. It warns losing AGOA access could hurt the car and farming industries and cost thousands of jobs. Solidarity’s Jaco Kleynhans urged […]
# Minstens vyf migrante is dood aangetref op ‘n boot wat reddingspanne naby die Kanariese Eilande opgespoor het. Oorlewendes sê nog tot 83 mense is moontlik tydens die reis dood. Die organisasie vir migranteregte, Walking Borders, sê die boot was 27 dae op see ná sy vertrek uit Gambië. Een-en-veertig oorlewendes is in Gran Canaria […]
