# Suid-Afrika word aangemoedig om sy rampgereedheid te versterk, met kenners wat waarsku ‘n kragtige El Niño-weerpatroon is besig om te ontwikkel. Wetenskaplikes sê die verskynsel kan ernstige droogte, watertekorte, oesverliese en hoër voedselpryse meebring. Die onlangse La Niña-seisoene het wel broodnodige vog aan grondtoestande verskaf, maar kenners waarsku die land moenie oorgerus wees nie. […]
# The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has published new regulations to standardise the deactivation, recycling and reuse of inactive mobile numbers. The amendments aim to protect consumers by giving them adequate notice before numbers are deactivated while ensuring the efficient use of numbering resources. Icasa says the rules will create greater certainty across […]
# Pick n Pay launched a new artificial intelligence-powered shopping companion on its Asap! on-demand grocery delivery platform. Customers can now ask the A-I agent, named Penny, for what they need via voice commands and the agent will add the items to their baskets. The retailer says the agent responds in any language, and customers […]
# South Africa is being urged to strengthen its disaster preparedness as experts warn a powerful El Niño weather pattern is developing. Scientists say the phenomenon could bring severe drought, water shortages, crop losses and higher food prices. While recent La Niña seasons have improved soil moisture, experts stress the country cannot afford complacency. They […]
# ActionSA has asked National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza and the chairpersons of portfolio committees overseeing departments led by DA ministers or deputy ministers for an urgent investigation into serious allegations concerning Resolve Communications’ access to members of the executive. Spokesperson Leato Ngobeni says the allegations by former DA leader John Steenhuisen and former minister […]
# Die EFF het teruggekap nadat die ANC se sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, die party beskuldig het dat hy deur-tot-deur-veldtogte voer om buitelandse burgers te teiken, en sê die bewerings is vals. Hy het die bewerings gister tydens ʼn mediakonferensie gemaak. Die EFF sê Mbalula kan nie die geskiedkundige werklikheid uitwis dat uitbrekings van vreemdelingehaat en […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê Suid-Afrika is verbind tot die hantering van migrasie wat menseregte handhaaf en landsburgers se kommer balanseer met buitelanders se waardigheid en veiligheid. Hy en die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo se president, Félix Tshisekedi, het tydens ʼn bilaterale ontmoeting in Kinshasa kwessies bespreek soos die Ebola-uitbreking en migrasie. Ramaphosa sê Suid-Afrika […]
# The EFF has hit back at ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula after he accused the party of organising door-to-door campaigns targeting foreign nationals, saying these claims are false. He made the claims during a media briefing yesterday. The EFF says Mbalula cannot erase the historical reality that outbreaks of xenophobic violence and organised anti-immigrant mobilisation […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says the country is being distracted by anti-immigration protests while workers continue to lose jobs and incomes. The latest Quarterly Employment figures show that the country shed 80-thousand jobs in the first quarter of this year. Losses in community services and trade drove the decline. GIWUSA […]
