# The Tara Ocean Foundation has reported that maritime plastic pollution has worsened since the 1970s. Large debris like fishing nets kill over one-million seabirds and 100-thousand marine mammals each year. Less visible microplastics, now found even in deep ocean trenches, have disrupted microbial communities and carry toxins into food chains. The foundation says what […]
# South African Grammy Award-winning singer Tyla will host this year’s Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, becoming the first African to host the award show. The 23-year-old, whose real name is Laura Seethal, is nominated for favourite global music star and favourite music collaboration for Show Me Love with WizTheMc and Bees and Honey. Leading the […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag het berigte ontken dat sy soldate sonder ondersteuning in Goma, in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo gestrand is. Volgens City Press het busse wat ʼn groep Suid-Afrikaners uit Goma moes vervoer, weens ʼn gebrek aan fondse nie opgedaag nie. Die SANW sê die onttrekking van die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap-afdeling aan die […]
# Oudpresident Joe Biden van Amerika is met ʼn aggressiewe vorm van prostaatkanker gediagnoseer wat na sy skelet versprei het. Die 82-jarige Biden is Vrydag gediagnoseer toe hy die dokter vir urienwegsimptome besoek het. Sy kantoor sê al is dit ʼn aggressiewe soort, is dit sensitief vir hormone en kan behandel word. Hy sê die […]
# The South African National Defence Force has dismissed reports that its soldiers have been stranded in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, with no support. According to the City Press, buses that were supposed to transport a group of South African soldiers out of Goma have not arrived, with blame placed on a lack of […]
# EFF-leier Julius Malema sê president Cyril Ramaphosa gaan swak behandel word en nie die nodige respek ontvang op sy werksbesoek die week aan Amerika nie. Ramaphosa ontmoet president Donald Trump Woensdag wanneer hulle bilaterale, streeks- en globale sake van belang sal bespreek. Die besoek is ook daarop gemik om ʼn platform te bied om […]
# President Volodymyr Zelensky van Oekraïne het pous Leo die 14de bedank vir sy ondersteuning aan die land en dat hy sy stem verhef vir ʼn regverdige en blywende vrede. Die nuwe Katolieke leier het Zelensky Sondag ná sy inhuldigingsmis privaat ontmoet. Die pous het verlede week die Vatikaan aangebied as moontlike ontmoetingsplek vir vredesonderhandelinge […]
# Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. The 82-year-old was diagnosed last Friday after he saw a doctor for urinary symptoms. Biden’s office says while this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which […]
# Die Nigeriese televangelis Timothy Omotoso is vir vyf jaar uit Suid-Afrika verban ná sy deportasie gister. Verlede maand is hy vrygespreek op 32 aanklagte, insluitend verkragting, afpersing en mensehandel. Na bewering het hy ingestem het tot vrywillige uitsetting. Die woordvoerder van die Departement van Binnelandse Sake, Siya Qoza, sê Omotoso is kragtens die Immigrasiewet […]
