# Die Foschini-groep het planne aangekondig om teen 2029 sowat 280 winkels reg oor Suid-Afrika, Brittanje en Australië te sluit na ‘n ernstige daling in wêreldwye kleinhandelbesteding. Die modereus, wat swaar getref is deur internasionale handelsmerk-verswakkings, waarsku dat sy verdienste per aandeel vir die volle jaar met tot 65-persent kan daal. Uitvoerende hoof Anthony Thunström […]
# The Foschini Group has announced plans to close about 280 stores across South Africa, the UK, and Australia by 2029 following a severe drop in global retail spending. The fashion giant, hit hard by international brand impairments, warns its full-year earnings per share could plunge by up to 65-percent. CEO Anthony Thunström says the […]
# Award-winning American actor George Clooney has described US president Donald Trump’s administration as a ‘kakistocracy’, defining it as a government run by the least qualified people. He was speaking at the opening day of the Venice Film Festival, where he is to be awarded a Golden Lion for career achievement. Clooney says he is […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê twee nuwe entstowwe teen die Bundibugyo-stam van die Ebola-virus in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo word tans in veiligheidsproewe in Brittanje en Kanada getoets. Die amptelike sterftesyfer in die DRK se dodelikste Ebola-uitbreking ooit, is meer as drie-duisend. Die provinsie Ituri bly die middelpunt waar 88-persent van die sterftes was. Die […]
# The World Health Organisation says two new vaccines against the Bundibugyo virus of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now in safety trials in the UK and Canada. The official death toll from the DRC’s deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak stands at over three-thousand people. The province of Ituri remains the epicentre, accounting […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking verwelkom die uitslag van die ondersoek na die Suid-Afrikaanse hoë kommissaris in Indië, Anil Sooklal. Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking het Sooklal van alle blaam onthef nadat hy dieselfde godsdiensgeleentheid as oudpresident Jacob Zuma en staatskaping-verdagte, Ajay Gupta, in Haridwar, Indië, bygewoon het. Die […]
# ‘n Amerikaanse federale regter het president Donald Trump se administrasie verhoed om sy uitvoerende mag te gebruik om geboortereg-burgerskap te beperk deur federale departemente te verbied om burgerskap aan kinders wat in Amerika gebore word, te gee. Die Hooggeregshof het in Junie Trump se aanvanklike poging om geboortereg burgerskap te beëindig voorkom met die […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on International Relations and Cooperation has welcomed the conclusion of the investigation into the South African High Commissioner to India, professor Anil Sooklal. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has cleared Sooklal of any wrongdoing when he attended the same religious event in Haridwar, India, as former president Jacob Zuma […]
# A US federal judge has blocked president Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing its executive order restricting birthright citizenship, barring federal departments from denying citizenship to children born on American soil. In June, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s initial attempt to end birthright citizenship, leaving in place the understanding that anyone born in the […]
