# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says president Cyril Ramaphosa has been announcing emergency responses to gender-based violence and femicide since 2019, but nothing has changed. In an address to the nation last night, the president announced four measures aimed at strengthening government’s response to gender-based violence and femicide. These include an audit of cases involving […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, waarsku die Film- en Publikasieraad om sy oorsig en stryd teen aanlyn gevare te versterk. Dit volg terwyl Suid-Afrika vinnige tegnologiese verandering beleef. Die raad se afdwingingskomitee het vroeër die maand aangekondig hy het toegeslaan op nienakoming, en boetes van altesaam 16,1-miljoen-rand uitgereik. Malatsi sê […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die minister van Polisie, die nasionale polisiekommissaris en die betrokke forensiese owerhede opdrag gegee om binne 60 dae ʼn befondste plan in te dien om forensiese agterstande in geslagsgeweld- en vrouemoord-sake te verminder. Die president het gisteraand ʼn reeks maatreëls en voorskrifte aangekondig nadat vroue in en om Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, […]
# Die EFF verwelkom die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda in die Oos-Kaap se besluit om Julius Malema toestemming te gee om te appelleer teen sy skuldigbevinding in die vuurwapensaak. Hy is verlede jaar skuldig bevind aan oortreding van die Wet op Vuurwapenbeheer en in April tot vyfjaar-tronkstraf gevonnis. Malema is in 2018 verfilm waar hy ʼn […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has demarched US Ambassador Leo Brent Bozell for a third time in nine months. He has been called to explain what the department describes as “undiplomatic conduct”. This comes after he penned an op-ed, criticising president Cyril Ramaphosa and his government for ignoring president Donald Trump administration’s […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die land moet die ongemaklike, vernietigende waarheid in die gesig staar dat die vernaamste brandpunt vir geslagsgeweld in die huis en in interpersoonlike verhoudings lê. Volgens ’n nasionale studie deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Mediese Navorsingsraad is ’n intieme lewensmaat verantwoordelik vir die dood van meer as 60-persent van die vroue wat […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die geweld teen vroue in Suid-Afrika is ‘n bron van groot pyn en ‘n nasionale skande. Hy het gisteraand die nasie toegespreek en gesê wat die regering gaan doen om geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord in die land te stuit. Dit volg op die ontdekking van die liggame van elf vroue in […]
# Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi warned the Film and Publications Board to sharpen its oversight and strengthen the fight against online harms. This comes as South Africa confronts rapid technological change. Earlier this month, the board’s Enforcement Committee announced it had clamped down hard on non-compliance, issuing fines totalling 16.1-million-rand. Malatsi […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed the minister of Police, the National Commissioner of Police and relevant forensic authorities to submit, within 60 days, a funded plan to reduce forensic backlogs in gender-based violence and femicide cases. The president announced a series of measures and directives yesterday evening, following a series of killings of women […]
