# The International Monetary Fund’s growth forecasts for South Africa remain unchanged, while projections for global growth have lifted. In April, the IMF reduced the country’s forecast from the 1.5-percent projection in January to just 1.0-percent. In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF maintains that South Africa will only see an increase of one-percent […]
# British prime minister Keir Starmer says the UK will recognise Palestine as a state in September, unless Israel takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, and to reach a ceasefire. Around 140 countries formally recognise a Palestinian state, and last week, France pledged to do so at the United Nations meeting […]
# Aanhangers van die musieklegende Ozzy Osbourne sal hulde aan hom kan betoon wanneer sy stoet later vandag deur sy tuisstad Birmingham beweeg. Osbourne is op 22 Julie in die ouderdom van 76 dood, minder as drie weke nadat hy en Black Sabbath ‘n afskeidskonsert gehou het. Die Birmingham-stadsraad sê die geleentheid, wat deur ‘n […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola het bevestig dat Suid-Afrika dringende wêreldwye optrede ondersteun vir ‘n twee-staat oplossing vir Palestina en Israel. Lamola het by ‘n Verenigde Nasies-vergadering in New York die vernietiging van Gaza veroordeel en gevra vir erkenning van Palestina se staatskap. Lamola sê vrede hang af van die […]
# Die direkteur-generaal van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Zane Dangor, sê dit is nie ‘n uitgemaakte saak dat Suid-Afrika teen Vrydag ‘n gunstige handelsooreenkoms met Amerika sal sluit nie. Dangor het tydens ‘n lesing voor die Kgalema Motlanthe Stigting in Sandton gewaarsku dat eise oor binnelandse beleide soos swart ekonomiese bemagtiging die proses bemoeilik. Hy […]
# Nederland het twee Israelse ministers tot ongewenste persone verklaar vir die aanhitsing van geweld en etniese suiwering in Gaza. Nederland het verlede jaar ‘n mislukte voorstel deur Swede ondersteun om Europese Unie-sanksies toe te pas op die minister van Finansies, Bezalel Smotrich, en die minister van Nasionale Sekerheid, Itamar Ben-Gvir. Smotrich het op X […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation director-general, Zane Dangor, says there are no guarantees that South Africa will secure a favourable trade deal with the US by Friday. Dangor spoke at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation seminar in Sandton and warned that demands around domestic policies like black economic empowerment are clouding the process. […]
# Fans of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne will be given a chance to pay their respects when his cortege travels through his home city of Birmingham later today. Osbourne died aged 76 on 22 July. His death came less than three weeks after he took part, along with his band mates, in Black Sabbath’s […]
# International Relations and Cooperation minister Ronald Lamola has affirmed South Africa’s support for urgent global action to achieve a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel. Speaking at a UN conference in New York, Lamola condemned the destruction in Gaza, calling for the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Lamola said peace depends on halting illegal settlements, […]
