# Former president Thabo Mbeki says he hopes South African Ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, will succeed in mending relations between Pretoria and Washington. Meyer was officially accredited at the White House last Thursday. He is joined in the US by career diplomat Thabo Thage to re-establish the South African embassy. Mbeki told […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he and US president Donald Trump have agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger. The two leaders spoke on the phone over the weekend. This comes as the US and Iran are signalling progress in efforts to resolve the war. Netanyahu says dismantling […]
# Southern African Development Community Foreign ministers have reaffirmed their commitment to collective action to strengthen regional integration and shield member states from escalating global geopolitical and economic disruptions. This follows the SADC Ministers of Foreign Affairs Retreat held at the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga over the weekend. In his closing remarks, minister of […]
# US president Donald Trump says talks with Iran to reach a peace deal are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner. Reportedly, a deal would involve a 60-day ceasefire extension during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened, Tehran could freely sell oil, and talks on limiting Iran’s nuclear programme would be held. […]
# Drie Rooi Kruis-vrywilligers in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo is dood aan wat vermoedelik Ebola is. Hul het dit waarskynlik opgedoen toe hulle liggame hanteer het. Die vrywilligers is van die eerste bekende slagoffers van die Ebola-uitbreking in die DRK wat meer as 170 sterftes en 750 gevalle veroorsaak het. Die uitbreking is veroorsaak […]
# Die hoofekonoom van Momentum Investments, Sanisha Packirisamy, sê Moody’s se basislyn-aannames verwag dat die regering van nasionale eenheid sy termyn sal uitdien. Sy sê egter Moody’s het erken die komende verkiesingsiklus, insluitend die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing die 4de November, hou politieke en beleidsgevare vir Suid-Afrika in. Packirisamy sê terwyl Moody’s bewus is dat hervormingsmomentum in […]
# Three Red Cross volunteers died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from suspected Ebola likely caught while managing dead bodies. The volunteers are among the first known victims of the DRC’s Ebola outbreak, which has resulted in more than 170 suspected deaths and 750 suspected cases. The outbreak involves a rare species of […]
# Momentum Investments’ Chief Economist, Sanisha Packirisamy says in Moody’s baseline assumptions the government of national unity is expected to see through its term. However, she says Moody’s acknowledges that the upcoming electoral cycle, including the local government elections scheduled for 4 November, presents political and policy risks in South Africa. Packirisamy says while Moody’s notes that reform […]
# Die hoofekonoom van Momentum Investments, Sanisha Packirisamy, sê Moody’s het Suid-Afrika se soewereine graderingsvooruitsigte van bestendig na positief hersien, met die kredietgradering op Ba2. Sy sê die vooruitsig-opgradering weerspieël verbeterende fiskale prestasie en strukturele hervormings wat skuld bestendig maak en die ekonomiese herstel sedert 2007 ondersteun, ondanks die wêreldwye verlangsaming. Packirisamy sê egter Moody’s […]
