# Suid-Afrika het ‘n nuwe Nobelprys vir Vrede-wenner, en sy kon self skaars die nuus glo. Die 85-jarige menseregte-advokaat Navi Pillay het glo gesê: “Ek hoop dit is ‘n nie ‘n grap nie,” toe sy hoor dat sy die 2026-Nobelprys vir Vrede gewen het. Pillay, wat tydens die apartheidjare in Durban gebore is, het later […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus het dreigemente veroordeel om politieke teenstanders en burgerregte-groepe van hul Suid-Afrikaanse burgerskap te ontneem of hulle van hoogverraad aan te kla omdat hulle die land op internasionale vlak kritiseer. Corné Mulder van die party sê hierdie dreigemente skend die Grondwet asook die reg tot burgerskap en vryheid van spraak. Mulder beskuldig […]
# TLU SA is calling for improvements to rural roads, rail transport and logistics to reduce pressure on South African farmers. The agricultural organisation says poor infrastructure and transport inefficiencies are adding to production costs at a time when farmers are already facing sharp fuel price increases ahead of the summer planting season. TLU SA’s […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is encouraged by the Free State’s plans to revive industrial growth, attract investment and create jobs. He was speaking at the launch of the Free State catalytic investment and industrialisation project. Ramaphosa says the province was once a major manufacturing centre, but poor municipal services and infrastructure problems led […]
# South Africa has a new Nobel Peace Prize winner, and she could hardly believe the news herself. Eighty-five-year-old human rights lawyer Navi Pillay reportedly reacted by saying, “I hope this is not a joke,” when she learnt she had won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Durban during apartheid, Pillay went on to […]
# The Freedom Front Plus has condemned threats to strip political opponents and civil rights groups of their South African citizenship or charge them with treason for speaking out about the country internationally. The party’s Corné Mulder says these threats violate the Constitution and the rights to citizenship and freedom of expression. Mulder accuses the […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê ‘n Chinese motorvervaardiger wat beplan om in die Vrystaat te belê, moet uiteindelik voertuie en onderdele plaaslik vervaardig. Ramaphosa het ydens die bekendstelling van ‘n beleggings- en industrialiseringsprojek in die provinsie gesê die beplande belegging kan sowat ses-duisend werksgeleenthede skep deur die montering van ingevoerde onderdele. Hy sê die maatskappy […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says a Chinese car manufacturer planning to invest in the Free State must eventually manufacture vehicles and components locally. Speaking at the launch of the provincial catalytic investment and industrialisation project, Ramaphosa said the planned investment could create about six-thousand jobs through the assembly of imported parts. He added the company […]
# The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Andy Mothibi, and the acting head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, Ntuthuzelo Vanara, have welcomed the conviction of two company directors and three Gupta-linked mining companies for fraud and money laundering involving 107.5-million-rand. The Johannesburg High Court found Ronica Ragavan, Pushpaveni Govender, Optimum Coal Mine, Koornfontein Mines […]
