# Three foreign nationals have been remanded in custody until 5 June after appearing in the Musina Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo in connection with a nearly one-billion-rand drug bust at the Beitbridge border. The suspects, a Malawian man and woman and a Zambian man, were arrested after Border Management Authority officials intercepted a Malawi-registered truck […]
# Police in Brisbane made five arrests as they cleared a protest camp from the city park where the main stadium for the 2032 Olympics will be built. A coalition of environmentalists and Indigenous activists were warned they would be removed if they did not vacate the park. Site work for the 63-thousand-seat arena, the […]
# Eight students alleged to have been involved in a suspected arson attack at a Kenyan girls’ school that killed 16 pupils have been arrested. The fire tore through the Utumishi Girls Academy in Gilgil, about 120 kilometres north-west of capital city Nairobi. The National Police Service said after interviews with students and staff and […]
# Die Afrika-Ontwikkelingsbank en die Wêreld Ekonomiese Forum het die Humanitêre en Veerkragtigheids-beleggingspadkaart vir Afrika bekend gestel om privaat beleggings na die vasteland se kwesbaarste ekonomieë te lok. Die projek het ten doel om aandag te skenk aan Afrika se geraamde jaarlikse ontwikkelingsbefondsingsgaping van 6,4-duisend-milard-rand. Die padkaart beoog ook om volhoubare befondsing vir infrastruktuur, ekonomiese […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile is op ‘n werksbesoek aan Indië. Die laaste amptelike besoek deur ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse staatshoof was in Januarie 2019 toe president Cyril Ramaphosa hoofgas was by Indië se Republiekdagvieringe. Die Presidensie sê Mashatile sal as deel van sy besoek die bilaterale betrekkinge met die sakeleiers en beleggers uit Indië versterk. Dit sal […]
# Die rand het vanoggend op sy sterkste vlak sedert vroeg in Maart verhandel. Dit volg nadat die dollar verswak het te midde van berigte dat die VSA en Iran ‘n ooreenkoms bereik het om die wapenstilstand in die Midde-Ooste met nog 60 dae te verleng, en beperkings op verskeping deur die Straat van Hormoes […]
# The rand this morning traded at its strongest level since early March. It followed a weakened dollar amid reports that the US and Iran reached an agreement to extend the ceasefire in the Middle East by another 60 days, and lift restrictions on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. South Africa’s monetary policy committee […]
# Blue Origin sê die ontploffing van hul New Glenn-vuurpyl tydens ‘n toets op ‘n lanseerplatform in Florida, was weens ‘n tegniese fout. Die platform is sekondes na die geskeduleerde toets begin het, deur ‘n enorme vuurbal vernietig. Niemand is beseer nie. Blue Origin se stigter, Jeff Bezos, sê hulle ondersoek tans die oorsaak. Hy […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has embarked on a working visit to India. The last official visit by a Head of State from South Africa was in January 2019 when president Cyril Ramaphosa was Chief-Guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations. The Presidency says that as part of Mashatile’s visit, he is expected to cement the bilateral […]
