# Jamaica’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, has warned that Hurricane Melissa, which is set to make landfall today, could have a significant impact on the region. The rare Category 5 storm was packing maximum winds nearing 260 kilometres per hour, making it the strongest storm on earth this year. At least three people are known […]
# Die ANC se adjunkpresident, Paul Mashatile, sê as deel van sy hernuwingsprogram, wy die party hom opnuut toe aan die leringe van Oliver Reginald Tambo. Hy het gister by die O.R. Tambo-gedenklesing in Gauteng ʼn programrede gelewer onder die tema: Die bevestiging van ons stryd se morele kompas: eenheid, integriteit en hernuwing. Mashatile sê […]
# Atletiek: Atletiek Suid-Afrika se president, James Moloi, het ʼn skorsing-kennisgewing ontvang. Dit volg na ʼn verslag van die Suid-Afrikaanse Sportkonfederasie en Olimpiese Komitee oor Moloi se gebruik van sy ASA-kredietkaart, veral wat ʼn klomp twyfelagtige kostes soos uitgawes by kroeë betref. Moloi het tot Vrydag tyd om redes te verskaf waarom hy nie geskors […]
# Die DA sê die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee vir Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding moet dringend ondersoek instel na toenemende korrupsie en bestuursmislukking by die Walter Sisulu-universiteit. Ka-myaluza Security se uitvoerende hoof, Sibusiso Ngubane, het voor die Jafta-ondersoekkommissie getuig en bewerings van ernstige korrupsie, afpersing en onreëlmatighede met indiensneming teen minstens ses senior universiteitsamptenare gemaak. Delmaine Christians […]
# Oudpresident Joe Biden van Amerika het sy landgenote aangemoedig om optimisties te bly oor wat hy die donker dae onder Donald Trump se streng presidentskap noem. Die 82-jarige Biden het in Boston gepraat nadat hy die Lewensprestasietoekenning van die Edward M. Kennedy-instituut ontvang het. Hy het die eerste keer in die openbaar gepraat sedert […]
# Deputy minister of Police Cassel Mathale will be the sixth witness to testify at Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee today and tomorrow. The committee is examining the veracity of allegations of criminal infiltration and political interference in the criminal justice system. Mathale became the deputy minister in 2019 and worked with Police minister Senzo Mchunu […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development deputy minister, Andries Nel, says the fight against corruption and the protection of whistleblowers is a central pillar of the renewal of the state. He addressed the annual Whistleblowers Summit hosted by Public Interest South Africa in Johannesburg on Monday. Nel says corruption has weakened the moral authority of the […]
# The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has welcomed the Labour Court’s decision to reinstate all workers from Newcastle and Vereeniging, who were unfairly retrenched by ArcelorMittal South Africa earlier this month. AMSA unilaterally terminated the consultation process on retrenchments at the beginning of March and, without consultation, proceeded with dismissals. Numsa’s spokesperson, […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê Suid-Afrika se verwydering van die Finansiële Aksietaakmag se gryslys is ‘n goeie teken vir die integriteit en reputasie van die land se finansiële stelsel. In 2023 is Suid-Afrika op die gryslys geplaas omdat hy nie aan sekere internasionale standaarde voldoen het nie. In sy weeklikse nuusbrief sê Ramaphosa die land […]
