# Namibia’s Statistics Agency says the country recorded a trade surplus of 856-million-rand in June. Exports were predominantly mineral-based, including uranium, non-monetary gold, diamonds, and copper, with fish being the only non-mineral product in the top five. China emerged as the leading export destination, while South Africa remained the primary source of imports. According to […]
# ‘n Uroloog van die Wes-Kaapse Departement van Gesondheid, Danelo du Plessis, het Suid-Afrika se eerste robotiese skenker-nefrektomie suksesvol by Tygerberg-hospitaal uitgevoer. Du Plessis het die Da Vinci Xi-robotstelsel gebruik om ‘n gesonde nier van ‘n 45-jarige moeder vir haar 24-jarige dogter te verwyder. Dit beteken ‘n groot sprong vir pasiëntesorg en chirurgiese vernuwing. Hy […]
# The Independent Police Investigative Directorate probes an incident in Brakpan, Gauteng, where a policeman allegedly killed his wife and injured her mother, two children and a domestic worker before taking his own life. The incident occurred following a domestic dispute. A protection order was issued against the policeman earlier. IPID spokesperson Lizzy Suping says […]
# Die president van Nehawu, Mike Shingange, sê hulle sal nie gedwing word om ‘n kollektiewe ooreenkoms te teken wat afleggings in die staatsdiens toelaat nie. Shingange het die vakbond se mandaat beklemtoon om werkers te verenig, te beskerm en vir hulle te veg. Shingange het gewaarsku teen die vermomming van gedwonge afleggings as vrywillige […]
# ‘n Voormalige kleuterskoolonderwyseres van Johannesburg is skuldig bevind aan die verkragting en moord op haar kêrel se vierjarige dogtertjie. Die plaaslike Hooggeregshof het bevind Amber Lee Hughes het Nada-Jane Challita in Januarie 2023 in haar pa, Elie, se huis in Glenvista seksueel aangerand en in die bad verdrink. Hughes het na die kleuter omgesien […]
# Western Cape Department of Health urologist, Danelo du Plessis, successfully performed South Africa’s first robotic donor nephrectomy at Tygerberg Hospital. Du Plessis used the Da Vinci Xi Robotic system to remove a healthy kidney from a 45-year-old mother for her 24-year-old daughter. This is a major advancement in patient care and surgical innovation. He […]
# Die DA sê hy het in ‘n skrywe aan die voorsitter van die Parlement se Portefeuljekomitee oor Klein Besigheidsontwikkeling geëis dat die keuringsproses vir die Ombud vir Klein Ondernemings sonder verdere vertragings hervat moet word. Henro Krüger van die DA sê die ANC se poging om sy voorkeurkandidaat af te dwing is in Junie […]
# A former Johannesburg kindergarten teacher was found guilty of raping and killing her boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter. The High Court in the city found Amber Lee Hughes sexually assaulted Nada-Jane Challita before drowning her in the bathtub of her father Elie’s home in Glenvista in January 2023. Hughes had been looking after the toddler while […]
# National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union president, Mike Shingange, says they will not be forced into signing a collective agreement permitting retrenchments in the public service. Shingange stressed the union’s mandate to unite, protect, and fight for workers. Shingange warned against disguising forced retrenchments as voluntary severance packages, adding that employees must not […]
