# Dokters sonder Grense waarsku besnoeiings aan befondsing lei tot die grootskaalse sluiting van klinieke in Soedan, wat beteken pasiënte het nog minder toegang tot gesondheidsorg. Die internasionale mediese humanitêre organisasie vra regerings en skenkers om befondsing vir noodsaaklike gesondheidsdienste te beskerm terwyl sowat 33,7-miljoen mense humanitêre hulp benodig. Die direkteur van Verenigings in Suider-Afrika, […]
# Brent crude oil rose past 100-dollar a barrel today, hitting a more than six-week high and breaching the symbolic threshold for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East heightened concerns about oil flows from the region. Brent crude prices have risen by 25-percent since early last month as […]
# Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the US military and attacked 10 ships after America said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. This is a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war. Increased attacks by both sides have shattered a month of relative calm, hitting […]
# The son of Richemont chairperson Johann Rupert, Anton, has been appointed as the company’s non-executive, co-deputy chairperson. Rupert senior, South Africa’s richest person with a net worth estimated at over 262-billion-rand, founded the Swiss-based luxury goods holding company in 1988. It owns brands such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. Thirty-nine-year-old Anton Rupert […]
# Graad 12-leerders van Zimbabwe wat Suid-Afrika verlaat het ná die immigrasie-sperdatum van 30 Junie, word teruggebring om hul matriek-eindeksamen te skryf. Die koördinerende komitee vir Zimbabwiese vrystellingspermitte sê die leerders sal in ‘n koshuis in Johannesburg tuisgaan voor die eksamen, wat volgende maand begin. Sowat 35-duisend leerders het volgens berigte tussen Mei en September […]
# International, independent medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors without Borders, has warns aid cuts are forcing mass clinic closures across Sudan, leaving patients with even fewer places to seek care. It urges governments and institutional donors to protect funding for essential health services, as approximately 33.7-million people need humanitarian assistance. Southern Africa director of Associations, Monica […]
# Grade 12 Zimbabwean learners who left South Africa after the June 30 immigration deadline are being brought back to write their matric exams. The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Coordinating Committee Academy says learners will be housed at a boarding facility in Johannesburg ahead of the exams, starting next month. About 35-thousand children reportedly returned to […]
# Duisende passasiers is steeds gestrand op Britse lughawens nadat die Britse Lugverkeerbeheerdiens ‘n tegniese fout ervaar het. Die probleem het gister gelei tot sowat een-duisend-300 kansellasies van vlugte na of vanaf lughawens in Brittanje. FlightRadar berig Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester en Birmingham is die swaarste getref. Meer as 250 vlugte is reeds vandag gekanselleer. Die […]
# Die Nasionale Verbruikerskommissie sê Isuzu Motors Suid-Afrika het ‘n veiligheidsterugroep uitgereik vir twee-duisend-582 RG19-bakkies wat tussen 11 Mei en 3 Julie vanjaar in die mark beskikbaar gestel is. Volgens Isuzu is daar ‘n moontlikheid dat die rempedaal se spilpunt kan loskom. Die kommissie se woordvoerder, Phetho Ntaba, sê van die voertuie is ook uitgevoer […]
