# Minstens 100 mense is waarskynlik dood na die ineenstorting van ‘n goudmyngroef in Nigerië se Zamfara-staat. Die groef by die Kadauri-mynterrein in die Maru-plaaslike regeringsgebied het Donderdag ingestort terwyl tientalle mynwerkers ondergronds gewerk het. Reddingsoperasies is tot die naweek uitgevoer. Sanusi Auwal, ‘n inwoner wat by reddingspogings betrokke was, sê ten minste 13 lyke […]
# Die Verenigde State sê die Colombiaanse president Gustavo Petro se visum sal ingetrek word nadat hy Vrydag die strate van New York ingevaar het in ‘n pro-Palestynse betoging en Amerikaanse soldate aangespoor het om president Donald Trump se bevele te verontagsaam. Petro het ‘n skare pro-Palestynse betogers buite die VN-hoofkwartier in Manhattan toegespreek en […]
# At least 100 people are feared dead following the collapse of a gold mining pit in Nigeria’s Zamfara State. The pit at the Kadauri mining site in the Maru local government area caved in on Thursday while scores of artisanal miners were working underground. Rescue operations continued into the weekend. Sanusi Auwal, a resident […]
# The United Nations awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal to the late South African National Defence Force member, major Tolla Pieterse. SANDF deputy Chief Joint Operations, Major General René Mercuur, says Pieterse was fatally wounded in July 2024 when a hand grenade exploded close to his sleeping quarters in the Beni base in the eastern […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies het die Dag Hammarskjöld-medalje toegeken aan die oorlede lid van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag, majoor Tolla Pieterse. Die adjunkhoof van die SANW, generaal-majoor René Mercuur, sê Pieterse is in Julie 2024 noodlottig gewond toe ‘n handgranaat naby sy slaapvertrek in die Beni-basis in die oostelike streek van die Demokratiese Republiek van […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê die Haagse Groep sal nie rus totdat dit die wêreld verenig het om die internasionale wette wat die mense van Palestina beskerm, te verdedig nie. Die Haagse Groep, bestaande uit 30 lande, insluitend Suid-Afrika, eis dat Israel voldoen aan internasionale wette rakende sy onwettige […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola says The Hague Group will not rest until it has rallied the world to defend the international laws that protect the people of Palestine. The Hague Group, consisting of 30 countries including South Africa, demand that Israel comply with international laws regarding its unlawful occupation of […]
# UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a global conference of centre-left leaders that they must tackle uncontrolled migration and confront “lies” being told about their countries by hard-right politicians. The meeting in London included Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Canadian premier Mark Carney and comes as right-wing populism rises around the world and […]
# The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly yesterday that “every government” should follow Donald Trump’s lead in refusing to recognise a Palestinian state. Dozens of delegates walked out of the hall as Netanyahu started his address of around 40 minutes, instead of the allocated 15. Netanyahu said those recognising […]
