# China’s leading memory-chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has sued the US Defence Department over being placed on a list of companies Washington believes support China’s military. CXMT says it has no ties to the Chinese military and that its chips are made for civilian and commercial use. The company is seeking […]
# SAFTU has urged government and the Higher Education and Training Department to prioritise the transformation of the higher education sector. Statistics show that at the University of Cape Town, 39.7-percent of the professors are white, 39.3-percent are foreign nationals, while African, coloured and Indian professors combined constituted only 22.6-percent. Saftu’s Asive Dyani says this […]
# Gholf: Jean Hugo het sy 22ste Sonskyn-toertitel ingepalm na hy die Sunbet Challenge op die Wild Coast Sun-baan met een hou gewen het. Die 50-jarige het ‘n finale ronde van 65 voltooi om agt-onderbaansyfer te eindig met Nikhil Rama tweede op sewe-onder. Hugo het die finale ronde in die gesamentlike 11de plek begin, maar […]
# COSATU doen ‘n beroep op dringende maatreëls om werkers en die ekonomie te beskerm teen die skerp brandstofprysstygings wat volgende week verwag word. Petrol sal na verwagting met tot een-rand-sewe-sent per liter styg, terwyl diesel met soveel as twee-rand-92-sent kan styg. Die vakbondfederasie sê die verhogings sal verdere druk op huishoudings plaas wat reeds […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier, Alan Winde, het die afname verwelkom in moorde wat gedurende die eerste kwartaal van die 2026/2027-boekjaar in die provinsie aangeteken is. Die jongste kwartaallikse polisiemisdaadstatistiek toon moorde het met 6,7-persent in die provinsie afgeneem van een-duisend-148 gevalle tussen April en Junie 2025, tot een-duisend-71 gevalle in dieselfde tydperk in die huidige […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê premier Panyaza Lesufi het misluk om ernstige geweldsmisdade in die provinsie te bekamp. Volgens polisie-misdaadstatistiek bly Gauteng die land se grootste bydraer tot ontvoering, met ‘n verstommende 51-persent van alle aangemelde ontvoeringsake landwyd tussen April en Junie vanjaar, terwyl een-duisend-772 poging-tot-moord-sake aangemeld is. Crezane Bosch van die DA sê […]
# Nepal gaan tussen 65-miljard en 81-miljard-rand benodig om die land te herbou na dié week se verwoestende vloede op sy grens met China. Die land se minister van Finansies, Swarnim Wagle, het aan Reuters gesê die skatting is voorlopig, met amptenare wat steeds die volle omvang van die skade beraam. Die vloede het huise […]
# COSATU is calling for urgent measures to protect workers and the economy from steep fuel price increases expected next week. Petrol is forecast to rise by up to one-rand-seven-cents a litre, while diesel could increase by as much as two-rand-92-cents. The union federation says the increases will place further pressure on households already struggling […]
# Western Cape premier, Alan Winde has welcomed the decrease in murders recorded in the province during the first quarter of the 2026/2027 financial year. The latest quarterly police crime statistics show that murders in the province decreased by 6.7-percent, down from one-thousand-148 cases between April to June 2025 , to one-thousand-71 cases in the […]
