# ‘n Rekord aantal lande en streke gaan môre die 80ste herdenking van die atoombomontploffing in Hiroshima bywoon, insluitend Rusland se bondgenoot, Belarus, en die nuwelinge Taiwan en verteenwoordigers van Palestina. Amerika het op 6 Augustus 1945 ‘n atoombom op die Japanse stad afgegooi, wat sowat 140-duisend lewens geëis het. Drie dae later het ‘n […]
# Agri SA has urged government to intensify negotiations by deploying skilled trade negotiators with US authorities over a 30-percent import tariff impacting South African agricultural exports. The industry body’s CEO, Johann Kotzé, warns the tariffs could hurt the citrus, grapes, wine, macadamia nuts, and ostrich leather industries. Kotzé says a pragmatic strategy is vital […]
# The DA says the ANC’s failure to secure a solid trade deal with the US has left South African exporters exposed to damaging new tariffs. The party blames Trade, Industry and Competition minister Parks Tau and International Relations and Cooperation minister Ronald Lamola for not acting sooner, as businesses now face a 30-percent tariff […]
# Fifty-one Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas, to try to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans. The proposed re-districting is backed by US President Donald Trump and would create five new Republican-leaning seats in the US House of Representatives, where Republicans have a slender majority. Two-thirds of […]
# The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa has warned that the 30-percent tariff on South African exports to the US is set to severely impact the metals and engineering sector. According to a recent survey 33-percent of companies expect revenue and job losses, with some relying on the US for up to 20-percent […]
# A record number of countries and regions will attend the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima tomorrow, including Russia’s ally, Belarus, and first-timers Taiwan and representatives of Palestine. The United States dropped the bomb on the Japanese city on 6 August 1945, killing some 140-thousand people. Three days later a second device […]
# The legal counsel for the late former Zambian president Edgar Lungu’s family has argued there’s no evidence he wished to be buried in Zambia. Advocate Casper Welgemoed told the High Court in Pretoria any such claims are hearsay and should be dismissed. The Zambian government and the Lungu family are in a legal battle […]
# Die Departement van Elektrisiteit en Energie, sal ‘n nalatenskapsprojek by die G20 Skoon-kookuitkoms bekendstel om beleggings in skoon kosmaak te bevoder. Adjunkminister, Samantha Graham-Maré het beklemtoon die projek ondersteun Regverdig Energieoorskakeling. Die Internasionale Energie-agentskap dui aan meer as 500-duisend sterftes kom jaarliks in Afrika voor as gevolg van giftige huishoudelike lugbesoedeling omdat meeste families […]
# Rusland bepleit versigtigheid nadat die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, gesê het hy gaan twee kernduikbote ontplooi ná ‘n aanlyn geskil met die voormalige Russiese president, Dmitri Medvedev. Trump beskuldig Medvedev van hoogs uitlokkende kommentaar, en sê die duikbote sal in gepaste streke ontplooi word. Hy het nie gesê of dit kernaangedrewe vaartuie of duikbote […]
