# Financial pressures, especially youth unemployment and job insecurity, are pushing up divorce rates in poorer Chinese regions. According to Reuters, demographer Yi Fuxian warns that the 2024 divorce rate is projected at 2.6 per one-thousand up from 2.0 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yi says this is notably higher than Japan’s 1.5 and South Korea’s 1.8. […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare meer as 245-duisend werkers, is bekommerd oor die voortgesette kritiek teen die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag se prestasie in hoëprofielsake. Die vakbond verdedig hardwerkende aanklaers wat worstel met haglike werksomstandighede, personeeltekorte en swak betaling. Die vakbond sê die NVG se mislukking om te vervolg is weens sistemiese onderbefondsing en nie onbevoegdheid nie. […]
# The Public Servants Association, representing over 245-thousand workers, has raised alarm over continued criticism of the NPA’s performance in high-profile cases. The PSA defends hardworking prosecutors facing dire working conditions, understaffing, and low pay. It says failure to prosecute stems from systemic under-resourcing, not incompetence. The PSA urges government investment in the NPA. It […]
# AfriForum vra die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, om tydelike rybewyse gratis aan motoriste te voorsien wat betyds hernu. Dit volg weens die 730-duisend agterstallige rybewyskaarte wat sedert verlede maand nie gedruk kon word nie omdat die drukker gereeld buite werking is. Louis Boshoff van AfriForum sê dis onregverdig om te verwag dat motoriste […]
# AfriForum is calling on Transport minister Barbara Creecy to issue free temporary driving licences to motorists who renew on time. The demand follows a backlog of over 730-thousand licence cards by mid-May, due to repeated printer breakdowns. AfriForum’s Louis Boshoff says it’s unfair for motorists to pay extra for delays caused by the department’s […]
# Motorsport: Kanada gaan ‘n Formule Een Grand Prix aanbied tot minstens 2035. Dit volg nadat die sport ‘n verlenging onderteken het met Kanada en Quebec vir ‘n wedren in Montreal, wat sy eerste Grand Prix in 1978 gehou het. Die wedren was in gedrang nadat F1 se uitvoerende hoof, Stefano Dominicali, verlede jaar ‘n […]
# Motorsport: Canada will host a Formula One Grand Prix until at least 2035. This follows the sport’s signing of an extention to Quebec and Canada’s deal to host a race in Montreal, which hosted it’s first Grand Prix in 1978. The race had been in doubt after F1 CEO Stefano Dominicali issued a stern […]
# ‘n Dokter van Los Angeles het ingestem om te erken dat hy die Friends-akteur Matthew Perry ketamien gegee het voor sy dood weens ’n noodlottige oordosis. Aanklaers sê Salvador Plasencia kan moontlik tot 40-jaar tronkstraf gevonnis word. Hy is een van vyf mense wat aangekla is na Perry se dood. Die akteur se gereelde […]
# A Los Angeles doctor has agreed to plead guilty to giving Friends actor Matthew Perry ketamine in the lead up to his death from a fatal overdose. Prosecutors say Salvador Plasencia faces up to a maximum of 40-years in prison. He is among five people charged in connection with Perry’s death. The actor had […]
