# The National Assembly has recommended Moipone Malefane and Natalie Skeepers to serve on the Media Development and Diversity Agency board. Malefane is an award-winning journalist and founder of Vutivi Business News, while Skeepers brings corporate governance and financial expertise. The appointments follow vacancies due to a resignation and term expiry. The agency promotes media […]
# Deputy Finance minister Ashor Sarupen has called on governments, the private sector, development finance institutions, and multilateral partners to create enabling environments for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. Speaking at a G20 side event in Johannesburg, Sarupen highlighted that MSMEs account for 91-percent of South Africa’s businesses and 60-percent of jobs. He stressed the […]
# Rugby: Die Springbokafrigter, Rassie Erasmus, het die meeste spelers behou wat Nieu-Seeland verlede naweek geklop het toe hy sy groep aangekondig het vir die laaste twee Rugbykampioenskapswedstryde teen Argentinië in Durban en Londen. Die groep kom môre in Durban bymekaar nadat hulle ‘n paar dae saam met hulle gesinne deurgebring het. Willie le Roux […]
# Die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek het begin met sy verhore oor misdadigheid, politieke inmenging en korrupsie in die strafregstelsel. Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is die eerste getuie in die Brigitte Mabandla-justisiekollege in Pretoria. Die getuienisleier, Terry Motau, sê Mkhwanazi se plofbare bewerings sal openlik en onpartydig ondersoek word. Hy voeg by ‘n konsepverslag word […]
# Sestien ministers van Buitelandse Sake het kommer uitgespreek oor die veiligheid van die Global Sumud-flottielje wat hulp aan Gaza neem. Die flottielje wil bewustheid verhoog vir dringende humanitêre behoeftes in Gaza en die beeïndiging van die oorlog. Die ministers van Suid-Afrika, Bangladesj, Brasilië, Colombia, Indonesië, Ierland, Libië, Maleisië, Maledive, Mexiko, Pakistan, Katar, Oman, Slowenië, […]
# South Africa says it takes solemn account of the findings of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. International Relations and Cooperation spokesperson, Chrispin Phiri says the Commission’s report concludes that the Israeli authorities and security forces continue killing and […]
# The People’s Movement for Change says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s claim that the ANC should learn from DA-run municipalities, is an insult to residents of the Western Cape. The movement’s spokesperson, Zandré Allen says if Ramaphosa knew his country, he would know that in Khayamandi, families still live in poverty with no real housing opportunities. He says in […]
# Statistieke Suid-Afrika sê die jaarlikse verbruikersprysinflasie het in Augustus tot 3,3-persent verlangsaam, minder as die 3,5-persent in Julie. Die hoofdirekteur van prys-statistieke, Patrick Kelly, sê laer voedsel- en brandstofpryse het gehelp om die koers te verlaag. Jaarlikse inflasie vir voedsel en nie-alkoholiese drankies het tot 5,2-persent gedaal en brandstof het met 5,7-persent gedaal. Intussen […]
# The DA warns of a worsening hunger crisis in Gauteng, where 130 children under five die annually from malnutrition. DA Health spokesperson Jack Bloom cites Gauteng Health data showing eight-thousand-546 malnutrition cases treated last year, with severe cases in hospitals and mobile clinics. Many deaths are linked to infections and late presentation at facilities. […]
