# China’s leadership convenes next week for closed-door meetings to hammer out plans to shield the ailing economy from tariffs and trade threats from US president Donald Trump. The gatherings of the country’s parliament and top advisory body are primarily talking shops, rubber-stamping decisions made by the Communist Party. But they do offer a rare […]
# Duitsland se KFW Ontwikkelingsbank het ʼn konsessielening van 2,8-miljard-rand aan die Stad Kaapstad toegestaan om sy elektrisiteitsinfrastruktuur te versterk en hernubare energie te integreer. Die lening se voorwaardes is nog nie bekend nie, maar die lening word beskryf as gunstig en ooreenkomstig Suid-Afrika se billike energieoordrag. Die stad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê sonder […]
# Germany’s KFW Development Bank has approved a 2.8-billion-rand concessional loan for the City of Cape Town to strengthen its electricity infrastructure and integrate renewable energy. While the loan conditions have not been disclosed, the financial terms are described as favourable and aligned with South Africa’s just energy transition. Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says […]
# Die bekende epidemioloog, Salim Abdool Karim, sê Amerika se skielike verandering in benadering teenoor MIV/Vigs-organisasies hou onnodige gevare in. Die Amerikaanse regering het befondsing aan die Presidensiële Noodplan vir MIV/Vigs-organisasies in Suid-Afrika gestaak. Dit ontvang fondse van die Amerikaanse Agentskap vir Internasionale Ontwikkeling. Die noodplan verteenwoordig 17-persent van die land se MIV/Vigs-begroting. Karim het […]
# Renowned epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim warns that the abrupt and brutal approach taken by the US against HIV/Aids organisations risks unnecessary consequences. The American government has cut funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS-funded HIV organisations in South Africa, which receive their funds through the United States Agency for International Development. Pepfar accounts for […]
# Die Britse eerste minister, Keir Starmer, sê ‘n Russies-Oekraïnse vredesooreenkoms moet sterk en regverdig wees. Hy het met die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, in die Withuis vergader waar die bereiking van ‘n blywende vrede in Oekraïne en beëindiging van Rusland se volskaalse inval die belangrikste besprekingspunt was. Starmer het benadruk dat Trump en sy […]
# Die Rotariërs se Internasionale Distrik 9350 het onlangs die ACT4IMPACT -veldtog van stapel gestuur om 100 jaar se diens te herdenk. Die veldtog het ten doel om individue te inspireer om gemeenskappe te bou met ‘n blywende uitwerking deur diens. Die Rotariërs sê die veldtog word gekenmerk deur voorbeelde van sy gemeenskapsprojekte wat mense […]
# Oxbridge-akademici lei ʼn veldtog om klimaatsverandering in alle skoolvakke te integreer as deel van die Arbeidersparty se leerplanhersiening. Die Britse minister van Onderwys, Bridget Phillipson, word in ʼn brief gevra om klimaatsverandering by die leerplan in te sluit. Meer as 150 akademici in die Verenigde Koninkryk, onder andere 29 professors van Oxford en Cambridge, […]
# UK prime minister Keir Starmer says a Russia-Ukraine peace deal must be tough and fair. He met with US president Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, where achieving lasting peace in Ukraine and ending Russia’s full-scale invasion was top of the agenda. Starmer stressed that Trump and his administration have largely ignored […]
