# Die DA het die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, by die Parlement se Etiekkomitee verkla nadat die party vanoggend ook strafregtelike klagtes teen hom gelê het. Die DA sê Mchunu het die Parlement mislei oor sy bande met die omstrede sakeman Brown Mogotsi en glo dis ‘n oortreding van die etiese standaarde wat verwag […]
# Action Society demands answers from Correctional Services minister Pieter Groenewald after convicted murderer Xolani du Preez was wrongfully released from custody. Du Preez, meant to serve a sentence at Pollsmoor Prison for the murder of Cape Town make-up artist Suritha Alting, was mistakenly freed despite a court order keeping him behind bars. Action Society’s […]
# Cosatu het die moontlike strafregtelike klagte geloof teen diegene wat verantwoordelik is vir die ineenstorting van ‘n George-gebou in Mei 2024 waarin 34 werkers dood en 28 beseer is. Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het die klagte bevestig, nadat verslae sistemiese mislukkings en ongekwalifiseerde personeel aangedui het. Die Ingenieursraad se […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie het begin met openbare raadpleging oor voorgestelde rouwatergebruikstariewe vir die 2026/27 boekjaar. Die departement sê die proses het ten doel om te verseker gebruikers, insluitend landbou, nywerheid, myne en huishoudings, betaal vir waterhulpbronbestuur, infrastruktuur en navorsing. Tariewe dek ontginning, waterafskeiding en onverbruikbare water. Die hersiene prys-strategie sal volhoubaarheid […]
# Die VN-organisasie vir Handel en Ontwikkeling sê Afrika was die enigste ontwikkelende vasteland wat ‘n handelstoename in die eerste helfte van 2025 getoon het. Uitvoere het met vyf-persent gestyg en binne-Afrika handel het met 16-persent opgeskiet. Daarenteen het wêreldwye suid-tot-suid, wat handel tussen ontwikkelende lande is, dieselfde gebly en invoere het met twee-persent gedaal. […]
# SA Canegrowers says the local sugar industry will be under severe threat from a 30-percent US tariff on exports and a surge in cheap, subsidised sugar imports. They warn the US tariff, starting next month, will make sugar uncompetitive, while cheap imports from Brazil and India are already undercutting local prices. The organisation’s Higgins […]
# Ten crew members have been rescued and at least three others killed after a cargo ship was attacked by Yemen’s Houthis and sank in the Red Sea. According to the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency the Eternity C was carrying 25 crew when it was hit by rocket-propelled grenades fired from small boats. The […]
# South Africa’s public universities are facing severe strain due to ongoing dysfunction within the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and Sector Education and Training Authorities. North-West University’s Linda du Plessis warns that delayed payments, defunding, and poor governance are crippling institutions tasked with delivering quality education. While student struggles dominate headlines, the financial and […]
# Former apartheid-era police member Johan Marais has been sentenced to 15-years in prison for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. The 66-year-old earlier pleaded guilty in the High Court in Pretoria to gunning down Nyoka at his Daveyton home . Presiding Judge Mokhine Mosopa said the sentence must serve as both punishment and deterrent. The […]
