# New research from the Bureau for Economic Research and the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy suggests South Africa does not need to panic over the 30-percent US tariff hike. While around 20-percent of firms are affected, only a small fraction face major revenue loss. Most major industries, including poultry, maize, cattle, milk, and […]
# 2025 se Sveriges Riksbank-prys vir Ekonomiese Wetenskappe is toegeken aan die Amerikaners Joel Mokyr en Peter Howitt, en die Brit Philippe Aghion. Mokyr word erken vir die koppeling van tegnologiese vooruitgang aan volgehoue groei, terwyl Howitt en Aghion vereer word vir hul kreatiewe vernietigingsteorie, wat wys hoe vernuwing verouderde produkte vervang en produktiwiteit verhoog. […]
# The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Americans Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt, and Britain’s Philippe Aghion. Mokyr is recognised for linking technological progress to sustained growth, while Howitt and Aghion are honoured for their creative destruction theory, showing how innovations replace old products and increase productivity. The Nobel […]
# ‘n Senior diplomaat van die Europese Unie, Kaja Kallas, sê Rusland dobbel met oorlog nadat ‘n vlaag Russiese hommeltuie en militêre stralers die groepering se lugruim binnegedring het. NAVO het die verdediging langs sy oostelike grense versterk en Moskou beskuldig dat hy die alliansie se lugverdediging toets. Dit volg op hommeltuig-invalle in verskeie lande […]
# The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas says that Russia was “gambling with war”, after a spate of Russian drones and military jets crossing into the bloc’s airspace. NATO has boosted its defences along its eastern borders as it accused Moscow of testing the alliance’s air defences with drone incursions into several countries and […]
# Hamas het die 20 oorlewende Israelse gyselaars oorhandig ingevolge ‘n wapenstilstandooreenkoms, terwyl die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, en ander wêreldleiers voorberei vir ‘n spitsberaad oor Gaza. Gyselaarsgesinne is in Tel Aviv deur ‘n groot skare ondersteun, wat met vreugde, trane en sang reageer het op die nuus van die eerste vrylatings. Die pyn vir […]
# Hamas has handed over the 20 surviving Israeli hostages under a ceasefire agreement, as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders geared up for a summit on Gaza. In Tel Aviv, a huge crowd which gathered to support hostage families, erupted in joy, tears and song as news broke of the first releases, […]
# Die Disney wetenskapsfiksie-film, Tron: Ares, met Jared Leto in die hoofrol, was met sy opening die gewildste op die Noord-Amerikaanse lokettrefferslys. Die rolprent, wat die derde aflewering in die Tron-trilogie is, volg die mensdom se eerste kontak met kunsmatige intelligensie wanneer ‘n gevorderde program die fisiese wêreld betree. Nog ‘n nuweling, Miramax en Paramount […]
# Die SAKP sê die besluit om die Nobelprys vir Vrede aan Maria Corina Machado toe te ken, verander die prys in ʼn instrument vir die imperialistiese agenda van regime-veranderinge en staatsgrepe. Die 58-jarige opposisieleier van Venezuela het erkenning gekry vir haar stryd om ʼn regverdige en vreedsame oorgang van diktatorskap na demokrasie te bewerkstellig. […]
