# The Black Business Council has cautioned against altering South Africa’s transformation laws to accommodate Elon Musk’s Starlink. Reports indicate that government may offer Starlink a workaround to the 30-percent black ownership requirement under Black Economic Empowerment policies. The Communications Department has proposed an equity equivalence model, allowing investments in infrastructure instead of direct ownership. […]
# Teachers’ union SADTU will today join civil rights groups outside the Constitutional Court to support the Copyright Amendment Bill. SADTU says the bill promotes inclusive, quality, and decolonised education by allowing fair use of learning materials. They are backing Blind SA, ReCreate SA, SECTION27 and the South African Guild of Actors. The union’s Nomusa […]
# Severe weather has triggered a province-wide disaster response in KwaZulu-Natal. Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Thulasizwe Buthelezi has activated teams after early morning thunderstorms and damaging winds led to a level two weather warning. The department’s spokesperson, Senzelwe Mzila, says disaster teams also dealt with a veld fire near Vryheid:
# The Minerals Council South Africa welcomes the launch of the critical minerals’ strategy and the new Mineral Resources Development Bill by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. The council’s Allan Seccombe said these documents come at an important time to boost the mining industry’s role in economic growth and the energy transition. Seccombe […]
# Transnet Hawe-terminale sê daar is ‘n toename van 21-persent in sitrusuitvoervolumes vir April teenoor April verlede jaar. Transnet het 256 bykomende personeel aangestel om die groei te behartig en 100 nuwe masjiene aangeskaf. Die Sitruskwekersvereniging voorspel ‘n styging van 3,6-persent in totale sitrusuitvoere vanjaar, ten spyte van moontlike Amerikaanse tariefverhogings in Julie. Transnet Hawe-terminale […]
# Die uitvoerende hoof van AgriSA, Johann Kotzé, beklemtoon die belangrikheid van gebalanseerde handelsbande tussen Suid-Afrika en die Verenigde State om die huidige spanning te verlig. Kotzé het ná ‘n sake-afvaardiging se besoek aan Washington, kommer uitgelig oor die onlangse Amerikaanse tariewe van 30-persent op uitvoere, insluitend sitrus en makadamianeute. Hy het in gesprek met […]
# Afrika het amptelik sy eerste kontinentale ruimteagentskap onder die Afrika-Unie bekendgestel, met die hoofkwartier in Kaïro, Egipte. Die Afrika Ruimteagentskap beoog om gefragmenteerde pogings nasionaal te koördineer, satelliete te lanseer en die deel van klimaatsdata te verbeter. Met 63 satelliete wat reeds deur 18 Afrikalande gelanseer is, sal die agentskap voortbou op bestaande pogings […]
# AfriForum het ‘n hofsaak in die Noord-Gautengse Hooggeregshof aanhangig gemaak om die Wet op Onteiening, Wet 13 van 2024, ongrondwetlik te verklaar. Hy voer aan die wet bedreig private eiendomsreg wat onteiening sonder vergoeding toelaat. AfriForum waarsku dit kan lei tot misbruik deur owerhede wat swak bestuur word. Woordvoerder Ernst van Zyl sê AfriForum […]
# The City of Johannesburg says it is committed to strengthening its response to address all by-law transgressions in Mayfair. The city’s spokesperson, Virgil James says this followed the death of four children in a devastating house fire on Monday. James says the area has experienced widespread unauthorised building extensions, the proliferation of backrooms, and overcrowding:
