# Die Wits-universiteit se Instituut vir Botsingsfisika is een van die wêreldwye wenners van die 2025 ODESS-prys in Frankryk. Die toekenning van die Pierre Fabre-stigting gee erkenning aan ʼn Suid-Afrikaanse uitvinding wat deeltjie-fisikategnologie aanpas om luggehalte te monitor. Die kompetisie het ʼn rekord van 350 inskrywings van reg oor die wêreld gelok. Die wenprojek onder […]
# The Public Servants Association is calling on Trade, Industry and Competition minister, Parks Tau, to urgently appoint a new National Lotteries Commission board chairperson. This follows the resignation of doctor Barney Pityana last week, who still had two-years of his five-year term remaining. PSA Claude Naicker says Pityana’s three-year stint has not stabilised the […]
# Grassroots for Climate Action says South Africa’s Nationally Determined Contribution framework should be people-centred and inclusive. Government is preparing to update its Nationally Determined Contribution targets for 2030–2035, a crucial step in meeting its climate commitments under the Paris Agreement. Grassroots for Climate Action’s Mpho Phalwan says the country’s 2035 NDC targets must reflect […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Polisie sê Statistiek Suid-Afrika se 2024/2025-opname oor bestuur, openbare veiligheid en justisie beklemtoon die kommerwekkende en inherente gebrek aan vertroue tussen die polisie en die breër gemeenskap. Volgens die opname is huisbrake die misdaad wat die meeste voorkom. Sowat 132-duisend individue het die afgelope vyf jaar onder seksuele oortredings deurgeloop […]
# The DA says the poor and vulnerable cannot tolerate any longer the indignity of the South African Social Security Agency, which is meant to provide social protection. A group of pensioners and supporters marched to Parliament on Tuesday over SASSA failures, from unpaid grants to long queues. The DA’s Alexandra Abrahams says they will present […]
# Die GOOD-party sê drie maande is verby sedert Amerika mediese befondsing aan die land gestaak het, maar die regering het nog geen teenmaatreëls aangekondig nie. Twaalf fasiliteite in Suid-Afrika is ná die besnoeiings gesluit. Dit sluit klinieke vir MIV en vigs-pasiënte in, asook antiretrovirale fasiliteite. GOOD se nasionale jeugvoorsitter, Kaden Arguile, sê die werklikheid […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police says Statistics South Africa’s Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024/2025, highlights the worrying and inherent trust deficit between police and the broader community. According to the survey, housebreaking remains the most prevalent household crime in the country. About 132-thousand individuals experienced sexual offences over the past five years, […]
# Die leier van ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, sê daar is geen wetenskaplike bewys dat die vraghouer wat met drie mynwerkers van Lily Myn in ‘n mynskag geval het, nie teruggevind kan word nie. Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule en Solomon Nyerende was in 2016 vasgevang in ‘n houer wat by die Lily Myn in Barberton in […]
# The University of the Witwatersrand’s Institute for Collider Particle Physics is one of the global winners of the 2025 ODESS Prize in France. The award, from the Pierre Fabre Foundation, recognises a South African innovation that adapts particle physics technology for real-time air quality monitoring. The competition attracted a record 350 entries from around […]
