# US vice president JD Vance has suggested that the post-election payments president Donald Trump has promised American adult citizens would come from revenues raised by the trade tariffs. Trump has vowed to pay every adult citizen 80-thousand-rand if his Republican Party retains the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections. Reports estimate this will cost […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking sê ses Suid-Afrikaners word steeds vermis na die verwoestende kitsvloede in Nepal en Tibet. DNS-profiele van hul familielede is na die Nepalese polisie en Interpol gestuur om te help om slagoffers te identifiseer, met Suid-Afrikaanse diplomatieke missies in Indië en China wat ook met die soektog help. […]
# Navorsers sê bewyse uit Indonesië dui daarop dat mense moontlik psigoaktiewe plante 25-duisend jaar gelede gebruik het. Die studie fokus op antieke plantoorskotte wat in ‘n grot op die eiland Sulawesi ontdek is, onder meer tekens van natuurlike stowwe wat die brein kan affekteer. Wetenskaplikes sê die bevindings skuif die vroegste bekende bewyse van […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says six South Africans remain missing after devastating flash floods in Nepal and Tibet. DNA profiles from their relatives have been sent to Nepalese police and Interpol to help identify victims, while South African diplomatic missions in India and China are assisting with the search. The six […]
# Huidige data van die Sentrale Energiefonds dui op groot brandstofprysstygings volgende maand, wat petrolpryse na ‘n rekordhoogtepunt kan opjaag en dieselpryse laat styg tot naby die rekordhoogtepunt in Mei. In hierdie stadium kan petrolpryse op 7 Oktober met ongeveer twee-rand-vyf-sent styg, en dieselpryse kan met tussen een-rand-65- en een-rand-98-sent per liter styg. Dit word […]
# Minstens 20 mense is dood in ‘n brand wat op ‘n vragskip in die oostelike Chinese hawestad Qingdao uitgebreek het. Die brand, wat in die middel van die oggend ontstaan het, is ‘n paar uur later onder beheer gebring. Staatsmedia sê die skip het vrag vervoer toe die brand begin het, en verskeie mense […]
# Current Central Energy Fund data points to huge fuel price increases next month, which could send petrol prices to an all-time high and diesel prices close to the record high reached in May. At this stage, petrol prices can go up about two-rand-five-cents on 7 October, and diesel prices between one-rand-65- and one-rand-98-cents per […]
# Suid-Afrika en Saoedi-Arabië wil toerismebande verder versterk, insluitend met meer regstreekse vlugte tussen die twee lande. Die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille, sê gesprekke sluit vlugte na Johannesburg en pelgrimstog-dienste na Kaapstad in. Sy sê Saoedi-Arabië is een van 30 lande wat Suid-Afrika se elektroniese reismagtigingstelsel dek en reisigers uit dié land toelaat […]
# Researchers say evidence from Indonesia suggests humans may have been using psychoactive plants as far back as 25-thousand years ago. The study focuses on ancient plant remains discovered in a cave on the island of Sulawesi, including traces of naturally occurring substances that can affect the brain. Scientists say the findings could push back […]
