# ActionSA delivered a letter to president Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament in which it pleaded with him to declare a state of emergency on the Cape Flats. Between January and March this year, 208 of South Africa’s 240 gang-related murders occurred in the Western Cape. ActionSA’s Dereleen James says the victims of gang and drug-related […]
# Die regering verwelkom Statistiek Suid-Afrika se jongste ekonomiese syfers wat aandui die land se bruto binnelandse produk het in die tweede kwartaal vanjaar met 0,8-persent gegroei. Dit volg na ʼn skamele 0,1-persent groei in die eerste kwartaal. Vervaardiging, mynbou en handel het groei aan die ekonomie se voorsieningskant gelei. Die regering sê hierdie syfers […]
# Israel se eerste minister Benjamin Netanyahu sê sy land het heeltemal onafhanklik opgetree in sy aanvalle op Katar. Die Israelse weermag het gister die Hamas-leierskap in Doha aangeval. Hamas sê vyf lede is in die aanval dood, maar die onderhandelingspan is ongedeerd. Katar is ʼn belangrike bemiddelaar in onderhandelings oor ʼn skietstilstand, en behou […]
# Die DA sê president Cyril Ramaphosa se versuim om te bevestig dat Suid-Afrika se benoemde ambassadeur in Amerika nie ʼn ANC-kader sal wees nie, wek kommer. Ramaphosa het gister op vrae in die Parlement gesê hy finaliseer ʼn nuwe ambassadeur se aanstelling en belowe dis ʼn ervare, wêreldwyse diplomaat met ʼn deeglike kennis van […]
# Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations is calling for urgent steps and political will to ensure adequate funding for the Border Management Authority. According to the Department of Home Affairs, the BMA’s approved organisational structure provides for 11-thousand-115 personnel. However, only two-thousand-566 positions have been filled. Currently, the BMA is underfunded by more than 2.2-billion-rand. […]
# Construction giant Murray and Roberts Holdings has been placed under provisional liquidation following a court order. The Gauteng High Court granted the order at the behest of one of the company’s creditors. The process comes amid a parallel process which saw Murray and Roberts Limited, a downstream subsidiary of the holding company, undergo voluntary […]
# The EFF has introduced the Electoral Amendment Bill as a private member’s bill to Parliament, saying it’s time to end the systematic exclusion of millions of citizens from the democratic process. The private member’s bill seeks to amend the Electoral Act of 1998 to provide for the automatic registration of all South African citizens […]
# SECTION27, representing Cancer Alliance, has expressed disappointment at the Gauteng Department of Health’s appeal to the recent judgment in the case for radiation oncology treatment. In August, the Gauteng High Court declared the department’s failure to provide radiation oncology services to cancer patients unconstitutional and ordered it to address the backlog list. Cancer Alliance’s […]
# Die Nepalese weermag beskuldig betogers dat hulle die huidige krisis misbruik deur openbare en privaat eiendom te beskadig, te plunder en aan die brand te steek. Die ergste oproer in dekades het vandeesweek in die land uitgebreek ná ʼn verbod op sosiale media en ontevredenheid oor politieke korrupsie en nepotisme. Dit het tot eerste […]
