# Een-en-dertig mense is Dinsdag in Israeliese lugaanvalle in Libanon dood, na eerste minister Benjamin Netanyahu se belofte om militêre optrede teen Hezbollah te verskerp. Veertig mense is gewond, insluitend kinders en vroue. Dit is een van die dodelikste aanvalle sedert die wapenstilstand wat deur die VSA bemiddel is, middel April begin het. Die Israeliese […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika het ʼn presidensiële besluit onderteken om vanjaar nog tien-duisend Suid-Afrikaners as vlugtelinge in Amerika toe te laat. Dit verhoog die syfer vir hierdie fiskale jaar van sewe-duisend-500 tot 17-duisend-500. In die presidensiële besluit verklaar Trump dat ʼn onvoorsiene nood-vlugtelingsituasie nou in Suid-Afrika bestaan weens ʼn onlangse toename in aanhitsing […]
Die Verenigde Nasies se sekretaris-generaal, António Guterres, waarsku dat oorloë, wapen-wedrenne, klimaatskokke en die wegkalwing van internasionale reg geweldige druk plaas op die multilaterale stelsel wat ʼn derde wêreldoorlog moet voorkom. Hy het gister ʼn hoëvlak-debat in die Veiligheidsraad toegespreek te midde van groeiende kommer oor die toekoms van multi-lateralisme. Guterres waarsku ʼn gevaarlike verlies […]
# Israeli airstrikes killed 31 people in Lebanon on Tuesday, following prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to step up military action against Hezbollah. Forty people were wounded, including children and women. This is one of the deadliest attacks since a US-brokered ceasefire began in mid-April. The Israel Defence Force says it hit more than 100 […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, sê as ʼn netto olie-invoerder staar Suid-Afrika resessie-gevare en bedreigde nywerheidsmededinging in die gesig. Die oorlog tussen Amerika, Israel en Iran het verskeping deur die Straat van Hormoes, waar ʼn vyfde van die wêreld se olie- en energievoorraad gewoonlik vervoer word, grootliks beperk. Tau sê terwyl […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed a presidential determination to admit an additional ten-thousand white South Africans into America as refugees this year. This raises the limit from seven-thousand-500 to 17-thousand-500 in this fiscal year. In the presidential determination, Trump states that an unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists in South Africa, due to […]
# The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, warns that wars, arms races, climate shocks, and the erosion of international law are placing intense pressure on the multilateral system established to prevent a third world war. He addressed a high-level Security Council debate yesterday, amid growing concern over the future of multilateralism. Guterres warned that a […]
# Iran dreig om wraak te neem na wat hy Amerika se blatante skending van die skietstilstand noem. Amerika het Maandag “selfverdedigingsaanvalle” in die suide van Iran uitgevoer op bote wat seemyne probeer lê, en missielafvuur-terreine in die Hormozgan-streek wat ʼn kusgebied in die Straat van Hormoes het. Iran se ministerie van Buitelandse Sake sê […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, says as a net oil importer, South Africa faces real recessionary risks and threats to industrial competitiveness. The US-Israeli war on Iran has severely curtailed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which around one-fifth of the world’s supply of oil and energy normally flows. Tau says […]
