# Witness C says businessman Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala sought help from Police minister Senzo Mchunu after a police raid on his Pretoria home in December last year, while searching for kidnapped businessman Jerry Boshoga. Witness C told the Madlanga commission that Matlala asked Mchunu to intervene by identifying the officers involved in the raid using […]
# US President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping agreed to calm the trade war between their countries that has roiled global markets. Washington will cut some tariffs and Beijing committed to keep supplies of critical rare earths flowing. Trump called his first meeting with Xi in six years a “great success”, while the […]
# ActionSA sê sy voorgestelde grondwetlike wysiging om adjunkministers af te skaf, is weer in die Parlement geldig bewys. Matthew George van die party sê tydens die Parlementêre ad hoc-komitee se sitting Dinsdag het die adjunkminister van Polisie, Cassel Mathale, erken dat geen verantwoordelikhede gedurende die afgelope aan hom jaar toegeken is nie en dat […]
# The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation and the South African Medical Research Council have taken another major step in advancing genomic and precision medicine research. Deputy director-general, Kenny Tenza, says since 2016, they have collaborated on developing a national precision medicine research and innovation programme through the Strategic Health Innovation Partnerships. He says […]
# Cricket: India’s visit for a series of five Tests didn’t lessen Cricket Australia’s financial woes, with the governing body announcing a net loss of over 124-million-rand for the previous financial year. This is still much less than the previous year. The chairperson of Cricket Victoria, Ross Hepburn, criticised the national body during today’s annual […]
# South Africa’s public and private sectors are collaborating to create an Energy Attribute Certificate system to verify, track, and trade emissions-reduction efforts. The initiative, led by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment and informed by a Meridian Economics study, aims to improve transparency in electricity emissions reporting. Experts warn that inaccurate tracking […]
# Al Jama-ah in Johannesburg is diep bekommerd en verbaas ná die vergadering van die koalisieregeringsvennote Maandag. Al Jama-ah se woordvoerder, Thapelo Amad, sê tydens die vergadering het een koalisievennoot op rekord onthul dat hulle ‘n probleem gehad met die burgemeester, Dada Morero. Hy sê dit is as gevolg van sy beweerde betrokkenheid by die […]
# The EFF has joined the African continent today in commemorating Africa Food and Nutrition Security Day. The party says this day is a solemn reminder that Africa, a continent rich in land, water, and people, continues to face hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity not because of scarcity, but because of dispossession, inequality, and underdevelopment sustained by neocolonial economics. […]
# French police have arrested five more people, including a prime suspect whose DNA was found at the scene of this month’s daring Louvre museum robbery. Four thieves used a truck with a moving lift and cutting gear to break into a first-floor gallery at the museum on October 19, fleeing with jewellery worth an […]
