# Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment minister, Dion George, says South Africa’s green economy is driving econimic growth. Agriculture, forestry and fishing grew 2.5-percent, mining and quarrying 3.7-percent, and electricity, gas and water 0.2-percent, contributing to a 0.8-percent GDP increase in the second quarter. George added that the department will continue promoting eco-friendly projects, biodiversity, […]
# Jagersfontein residents are marking the third anniversary of the Jagersfontein dam collapse in the Free State. In 2022, the mine dam wall broke, flooding parts of the town and affecting 140 families. Two people died and one remains missing. While 90 families accepted 150-million-rand rebuilding led by Jagersfontein Development Mine, others are pursuing legal […]
# Die Britse eerste minister, Keir Starmer, het Peter Mandelson afgedank as ambassadeur in Amerika ná toenemende kritiek op sy verhouding met die ontslape Amerikaanse kinderseks-oortreder Jeffrey Epstein. Buitelandse Sake sê in ‘n verklaring die besluit is geneem weens bykomende inligting in e-posse wat Mandelson geskryf het. Dit toon die diepte en omvang van sy […]
# Statistics South Africa says manufacturing production fell by 0.7% in July compared with the same month last year. The declines were mainly in iron, steel, metal products, and wood industries. Month-on-month, production dropped 0.5-percent, but over the three months to July, it rose 2.5-percent, led by food, chemicals, and motor vehicles. Stats SA’s Nicolai […]
# Statistieke Suid-Afrika sê mynbouproduksie het in Julie, op ‘n maand-grondslag, met 4,4-persent gestyg. Hoof-opnamestatistikus, Juan-Pierre Terblanche, sê ystererts en metale in die platinumgroep het die groei aangedryf, met stygings van onderskeidelik 12,2-persent en 6,2-persent. Hy bevestig ondanks die positiewe bydrae van diamante, chroom, en steenkool, het goud, mangaan, koper en nikkel afgeneem:
# Tennis: Die nie-spelende Davis-beker kaptein van Australië, Lleyton Hewitt, beplan om te appelleer teen sy skorsing en boete omdat hy ‘n opkkikerbeheerbeampte gestamp het. ‘n Onafhanklike tribunaal van die Tennis Teen-opkikkerprogram het die voormalige nommer een vir twee weke geskors en hom met 350-duisend-rand beboet. Dit volg na die voorval in Oktober verlede jaar […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank se Monetêre Beleidskomitee vergader volgende week om inflasie en die terugkoopkoers te bespreek. Ekonome voorspel dat die terugkoopkoers bestendig sal bly op sewe-persent nadat inflasie tot 3,5-persent gestyg het, die hoogste in tien maande. Bradd Bendall van BetterBond sê die momentum bou op in die eiendomsmark, met huisleningaansoeke wat op ‘n […]
# The US today marks 24-years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly three-thousand lives were lost when Al-Qaeda hijackers crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania. Families will gather for the reading of names and six […]
# The Gauteng Education Department has confirmed that the 18-year-old shot dead during a hostage incident involving his family in Mamelodi on Tuesday, was a Grade 12 learner at Silverton High School in Pretoria. Spokesperson Steve Mabona says the incident occurs amid September trial exams. The department has deployed its psycho-social support team to provide […]
