# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die voormalige direkteur-generaal van Handel en Nywerheid, Alistair Ruiters, as sy spesiale raadgewer oor beleggingsbevordering aangestel. Hy het onder meer ‘n Filosofie-graad van Oxford en ‘n BA Honneursgraad van die Universiteit van Kaapstad. Ramaphosa se woordvoeder, Vincent Magwenya, sê die regering stel ‘n omvattende reeks ekonomiese hervormings in wat bedoel […]
# The EFF says it demands the immediate suspension of the Department of Military Veterans acting director general, Nontobeko Mafu, following the damning revelations of the Nexus Forensic Services Report released in January 2021. The party says the report, which was scandalously classified as “confidential” and covered up for over four years, exposes Mafu’s deep involvement in serious […]
# Deputy Police minister Polly Boshielo says she had hoped the missing Free State police officers would be found alive. The bodies of Cebekhulu Linda, Keamogetswe Buys, and Boipelo Senoge were recovered from the Hennops River. A fourth body was confirmed as a member from Lyttelton Police Station, while a fifth remains unidentified. Boshielo called […]
# Forum for South Africa veroordeel Zimbabwe se Gesondheidsdepartement omdat hy mediese behandeling vir ‘n Suid-Afrikaanse burger geweier het. Die Suid-Afrikaner het siek geword terwyl sy vir ‘n werkopdrag in Bulawayo was en toe sy na die hospitaal geneem is, het die personeel gesê hulle kan haar nie help nie weens logistieke redes. Tebogo Mashilompane […]
# Sokker: Real Madrid se verdediger, Antonio Rudiger, is vir ses wedstryde geskors omdat hy ʼn voorwerp na die skeidsregter gegooi het toe sy span die Copa del Rey-eindstryd teen Barcelona verloor het. Rudiger en sy spanmaat, Lucas Vazquez, het rooikaarte gekry vir hul reaksie toe Kylian Mbappé kort voor die eindfluitjie geblaas het, vir […]
# Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth today after six months on the country’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing advances towards its aim to become a major celestial power. China has ploughed billions of rands into its space programme in recent years in an effort to achieve what President Xi Jinping describes as the country’s […]
# The Southern African Fraud Prevention Service says consumers can expand their knowledge of how to identify a scam. The organisation launched Yima in response to the growing need for a proactive approach to fraud prevention. The fraud service’s Elmi Kemp says the method of deception used to scam targets involves a sophisticated blending of impersonation, […]
# Members of Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts have raised concerns over what action should be taken against the Road Accident Fund. This follows a presentation by the Special Investigating Unit, flagging irregular expenditure and misuse of public funds at the entity. The SIU’s findings have unsettled some MPs, with one describing the contents […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former Department of Trade and Industry director-general, Dr Alistair Ruiters, as Special Advisor on Investment Promotion. He holds a Philosophy degree from Oxford University and a BA Honours from the University of Cape Town, among other qualifications. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says the government is implementing a broad range […]
