# Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of US goods to the value of about 322.47-billion-rand, effective from the eighth of September. The tariffs, ranging from 15-to-50-percent will hit over 700 US products, including steel and aluminium, furniture, clothing, and fish. This is in response to 50-percent tariffs imposed by president Donald […]
# President Donald Trump says the US Navy has removed and/or detonated all mines within the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz. The vital waterway, through which some 20-percent of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas is used to transit, has largely been closed by Iran since the war started in February. In […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema says government’s failure to act against the alleged instigators and perpetrators of violence against foreign nationals in South Africa creates the impression that the violence was state-sanctioned. He was speaking during president Cyril Ramaphosa’s answer session in the National Assembly yesterday. The president stated that the government is investigating alleged […]
# Rugby: Springbok captain Siya Kolisi has recovered from a hamstring injury and will start against the All Blacks in Cape Town on Saturday. The 35-year-old, who suffered the injury against Argentina three weeks ago, missed the first Test in Johannesburg last weekend. Kolisi will form a loose trio with Pieter-Steph du Toit, who was […]
# Legendary country music singer, songwriter, and actress Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. In a career that spanned six decades, she wrote more than three-thousand songs and sold over 100 million records worldwide. She will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories, such as Coat of Many Colours, Jolene, […]
# Die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille, en die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het ‘n driejaar-ooreenkoms onderteken om belegging in toerisme-infrastruktuur te bespoedig. Die vennootskap beoog om toerismeplanne in lewensvatbare projekte te omskep wat werk kan skep en ekonomiese groei bevorder. De Lille sê Infrastruktuur Suid-Afrika sal deskundige ondersteuning verskaf […]
# AfriForum sê die gebrek aan titelaktes het ‘n uitwerking op inwoners se eiendomsregte in Dennilton in Limpopo, en veroorsaak probleme met ontwikkelings op die grond. Die organisasie voer aan sommige inwoners s meentgrond word oom ook onwettig beset. Barend Uys van AfriForum doen ‘n beroep op die provinsiale Departement van Grondhervorming en Landelike Ontwikkeling […]
# Die vakbond Solidariteit dreig met regstappe teen die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste oor die indiensneming van byna 200 voormalige G4S-werkers by die Mangaung-korrektiewe sentrum in die Vrystaat. Volgens die vakbond het die Arbeidshof gelas die werknemers moet na die departement oorgeplaas word met hul bestaande regte en diensjare ongeskonde. Theunis van Staden van Solidariteit […]
# Die Biko-familie is meer tyd gegun om voor te berei vir die heropende geregtelike doodsondersoek na die dood van die anti-apartheidsaktivis Steve Biko. Die familie het eers Maandag regsverteenwoordiging gekry en het die Hooggeregshof in Gqeberha, in die Oos-Kaap, om uitstel gevra om die groot hoeveelheid bewyse van die oorspronklike doodsondersoek en die Waarheids- […]
