# ‘n Senior FNB-ekonoom, Koketso Mano, sê enige langdurige ontwrigting van fisiese energievoorrade bied ‘n belangrike opwaartse risiko oor die kort termyn. Suid-Afrika se verbruikersinflasiekoers het in Mei vanjaar tot 4,5-persent gestyg, teenoor 4-persent in April. Dis die hoogste jaarlikse koers sedert Julie 2024, toe inflasie op 4,6 persent gestaan het. Mano sê die heersende […]
# Cricket: South Africa defeated Pakistan by two wickets to register their first win of the Women’s T20 World Cup in Edgbaston, England. Captain Fatima Sana scored an unbeaten 55 as she dragged Pakistan up to 126 for nine in their 20 overs. Marizanne Kapp took three wickets. In reply, all-rounder Annerie Dercksen’s 52 off 35 […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het ‘n beroep op geloofsorganisasies gedoen om ‘n sentrale rol te speel in die verligting van toenemende spanning oor migrasie en die versterking van Suid-Afrika se Nasionale Dialoogproses. Hy het gister ‘n spesiale vergadering met godsdiens-leiers by die Uniegebou in Pretoria gehou. Ramaphosa het gewaarsku dat frustrasie oor ekonomiese probleme nie […]
# President Donald Trump sê die Iran-ooreenkoms is nie finaal nie. Die ooreenkoms, wat môre in Switserland onderteken sal word, bepaal die voorwaardes van die skietstilstand, die heropening van die Straat van Hormoes en ‘n mate van finansiële verligting vir Teheran. Trump het tydens die laaste dag van die G7-beraad in Frankryk Iran gewaarsku dat […]
# The man who pleaded guilty to the so-called Gilgo Beach murders has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sixty-two-year-old Rex Heuermann confessed to killing eight women over the course of nearly two decades on New York’s Long Island. Many of the victims were dismembered and dumped in remote stretches of […]
# Build One South Africa deputy leader, Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster, has been picked as the party’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate, ahead of the local government elections in November. BOSA says she will lead the party’s campaign to provide Johannesburg residents with principled and capable leadership focused on building a metro that works. Hlazo-Webster says she is making […]
# South Africa and Rwanda have agreed to reset relations, restoring a decade of strained diplomatic ties. This follows high-level bilateral talks between minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola and Rwanda’s minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe, in Pretoria yesterday. Relations between the two countries deteriorated in 2014, when restrictions […]
# FNB senior economist Koketso Mano says any prolonged disruption to physical supplies of energy provides key near-term upside risk. South Africa’s consumer inflation rate rose to 4.5-percent in May this year, up from 4.0-percent in April. This marks the highest annual rate recorded since July 2024, when inflation stood at 4.6-percent. Mano says the […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on faith-based organisations to play a central role in calming rising tensions over migration and strengthening South Africa’s National Dialogue process. He held a special meeting with religious leaders at the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday. Ramaphosa warned that frustration over economic hardship must not be allowed to fuel […]
