# Die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger, Jamieson Greer, en die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, ontmoet na verwagting vandag in New York. Die doel is om die 30-persent tariewe wat Amerika op Suid-Afrikaanse uitvoere ingestel het, te bespreek. Die land se onderhandelingspan het ʼn hersiene voorstel voorgelê om ʼn laer tarief te bewerkstellig. Amerika […]
# The deputy minister of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Alvin Botes, says South Africa has secured 149-million-rand in sponsorships to support its G20 presidency. Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Gauteng in November, 90 of the 133 scheduled meetings have taken place. Botes told Parliament’s portfolio committee on International Relations and Cooperation that […]
# Solidarity says failures of the ANC-led government are linked to large-scale retrenchments across a range of industries. In its latest report, the trade union says retrenchments are already directly or indirectly affecting more than 350-thousand people. Solidarity’s General Secretary, Gideon du Plessis, says retrenchments in the mining sector can be attributed to high input […]
# Die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Sisisi Tolashe, sê sy vertrou die Suid-Afrikaanse Agentskap vir Maatskaplike Sekerheid het pogings verskerp om bedrog en korrupsie binne die toelaestelsel uit te roei. Die agentskap het verskeie sekerheidsmaatreëls bygevoeg om te verseker dat alle regmatige begunstigdes hul finansiële toelae ontvang. Tolashe sê die Biometriese Aansluiting vir Begunstigdes is […]
# Electricity and Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramogkopa says South Africa’s underperforming economy, combined with electricity tariffs, is making it increasingly difficult for residents to pay for the electricity they use. Municipalities collectively owe over 400-billion-rand, and in return, municipalities owe Eskom just above 100-billion-rand. Ramogkopa says the inability of customers to pay for electricity creates […]
# Social Development minister Sisisi Tolashe says she is confident that the South African Social Security Agency is intensifying efforts to root out fraud and corruption within the grant system. The agency has added several security measures to ensure all rightful beneficiaries receive their financial grant. Tolashe says the Beneficiary Biometric Enrollment is one of […]
# Vyf Weermaglede en twee ongedokumenteerde Zimbabwiërs sal vandag in Musina se Landdroshof in Limpopo verskyn op aanklag van die vermeende diefstal van ‘n besending onwettige sigarette naby die Limpopo-rivier. Skote is volgens berigte afgevuur, wat die smokkelaars gedwing het om die 24 kartonbokse te laat vaar. Ses bokse is later in ‘n tydelike militêre […]
# Mbekezeli Benjamin van Judges Matter sê die MK-party se regsgeding oor die wettigheid van die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek is ongegrond. Die kommissie het gister begin met die ondersoek na bewerings deur die KwaZulu-Natalse polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Die bewerings sluit in politieke inmenging en misdaadsindikate se infiltrasie van wetstoepassing en die regbank. Benjamin het in […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisie-kommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, sê die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, se besluit om die politieke moord-taakspan te ontbind, was irrasioneel en buitengewoon en is geneem sonder enige raadpleging. Mkhwanazi het aan die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek in Pretoria gesê die besluit het ernstige gevolge gehad, met 121 dossiere wat aan gewone speurders oorhandig […]
