# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation says South Africa’s foreign policy is guided by a commitment to a rules-based international system, based on a respect for human rights. The department has updated its initial statement in response to the US Human Rights Report. The report highlighted significant human rights issues, including unlawful killings, […]
# Israel approved a major settlement project in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community has warned threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state. Israel has long had ambitions to build on the roughly 12-square-kilometre parcel known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, but the plan had been stalled for […]
# Stellenbosch Business School economist, Nthabiseng Moleko, says the latest US tariffs on African exports threaten already fragile job security, with women expected to bear the brunt of the global trade war. Moleko warns that the 30-percent tariff on South African exports risks worsening labour insecurity, particularly for women, who face gender pay gaps, caregiving […]
# The last batch of one-pound coins bearing the face of late Queen Elizabeth II is entering circulation in the United Kingdom, with more than 23-million of them destined for tills and people’s pockets. The Royal Mint said the release of the final Elizabeth the Second coins, dated 2021 and 2022, marks a pivotal moment […]
# South African retail giant, Shoprite, will withdraw from Malawi after 25-years and is seeking local buyers for its Malawian business. This follows recent closures of outlets in Blantyre and Lilongwe over hygiene violations and expired goods. The exit is part of Shoprite’s strategy to scale back from non-core African markets, after pulling out of […]
# ‘n Geskiedkundige rooihout-kerk wat beskou word as een van Swede se mooiste geboue is vandag teen ‘n slakkepas uit die Arktiese dorp Kiruna verskuif na sy nuwe staanplek sodat Europa se grootste ondergrondse myn kan uitbrei. Die hele middedorp van Kiruna word hervestig omdat die ysterertsmyn wat steeds dieper word, die grond verswak en […]
# A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings was moved across the Arctic town of Kiruna today to its new home. to allow Europe’s biggest underground mine to expand. Kiruna’s entire town centre is being relocated because of the iron ore mine, whose ever deeper burrowing has weakened the ground, […]
# Japanese tegnici by die beskadigde Fukushima-kernaanleg het afstandbeheerde robotte na een van die reaktorgeboue gestuur as deel van die voorbereidings om radioaktiewe brokstukke te verwyder. Die gevaarlike hoë kernuitstralings maak die verwydering van gesmelte brandstof en ander rommel die skrikwekkendste uitdaging in die dekade-lange aftakeling van die aanleg nadat dit deur ‘n enorme tsunami […]
# Die Kommunistiese Party van Swaziland sê hy is bekommerd oor die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap se aanhoudende goedkeuring van Koning Maswati die derde, na wie hulle verwys as ‘n diktator en sy Tinkhundla regime. Die volg nadat Mswati as die adjunkvoorsitter van die SAOG Troika aangestel is. Woordvoerder van die party, Simphiwe Dlamini, sê Mswati se […]
