# President Donald Trump het voorgestel dat die Straat van Hormoes na ‘Trumpstraat’ hernoem word. Dit volg nadat Washington en Iran aanvalle hervat het en steeds in ‘n dooiepunt oor die Straat verkeer. Teheran eis die reg op beheer oor die strategiese waterweg; die VSA sê egter dit is ‘n internasionale waterweg. Minstens 26 vaartuie […]
# Airlink het sy aansoek om goedkeuring vir ‘n oorvlug voor Saterdag se derde toets tussen die Springbokke en die All Blacks in Johannesburg teruggetrek. Dit volg terwyl die Suid-Afrikaanse Burgerlugvaartowerheid ondersoek instel na die afgelope naweek se Airlink-oorvlug oor Kaapstad-stadion voor die tweede toets, na kritiek oor die hoogte van die oorvlug. Die owerheid […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie sê sy verslae toon geen bewyse van probleme met sy kandidaatbenoeming-stelsel op die sperdatum nie. Dit volg nadat die ANC sê tegniese foute het hom verhoed om kandidaatlyste vir verskeie munisipaliteite voor verlede Vrydag se sperdatum in te dien. Die kommissie het dit egter verwerp en gesê sy aanlyn stelsel was operasioneel. […]
# Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence has elected the ANC’s Mzimasi Hala as its new co-chairperson, following the unexpected and unexplained removal of Malusi Gigaba from the position. Hala was elected with six votes to two, while the EFF abstained. Gigaba faces fraud and corruption charges linked to the Transnet tender for over one-thousand locomotives […]
# Business confidence has stabilised, but at a level that remains too low to support the stronger investment and employment growth South Africa needs. This is according to the latest Business Confidence Index published by financial services firm RMB and the Bureau for Economic Research. Business confidence dropped a point to 38 in the third […]
# Gauteng MEC of Education Lebogang Maile was part of another police-led search and seizure operation at six schools yesterday, bringing the total number of schools searched across the province to 23. Yesterday’s operation targeted Sehopotso Secondary School and BoteboTsebo Secondary School in Sebokeng, Residentia Secondary School in Vanderbijlpark, Sapphire Secondary School in Bophelong, and […]
# AfriForum has written to minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, demanding an independent audit of the fuel price and levy, including the general fuel, carbon and Road Accident Fund levies. Petrol prices have gone up by one-rand-34-cents a litre and diesel prices by between two-rand-93- and three-rand-15-cents per litre this month. AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl […]
# North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Secretary General Mark Rutte warns that Russia has grown increasingly reckless as it continues its war against Ukraine. He says NATO has seen more Russian drones and missiles crossing into allied airspace along the eastern flank, creating greater risk for Europe’s security. This comes as Germany has concluded that Moscow […]
# US president Donald Trump has suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as ‘Trump Strait’. This comes as Washington and Iran have resumed strikes and remain deadlocked on the Strait. Tehran claims the right to control the strategic waterway; however, the US says it is an international waterway. At least 26 vessels have been attacked […]
