# Amerika se minister van Vervoer, Sean Duffy, sê die Federale Lugvaartadministrasie werk nou saam met die Nasionale Vervoer-veiligheidsraad om Indiese owerhede by te staan met die ondersoek na die Air India-vliegongeluk. Altesaam 241 van die 242 mense aan boord is dood toe dit net na opstyging by ʼn lughawe in Ahmedabad, Indië, neergestort het. […]
# The Israeli Defence Force has confirmed that it carried out strikes on nuclear sites in Iran in the early hours of this morning, as part of Operation Rising Lion. The strike targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile centres. According to reports, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander-in-chief, Hossein Salami, was killed in the attacks. A […]
# The Climate Justice Coalition says it stands in firm support of the call to break Israel’s brutal siege on Gaza, end the ongoing genocide, and fight for a free Palestine. On Thursday, thousands of activists and health professionals from different countries gathered in Egypt for the global March to Gaza. CJC’s, Tara Nair van Ryneveld, […]
# Athletics: Olympic champion Sweden’s Armand Duplantis walked away with the men’s pole vault title at the Diamond League meet in Oslo, Norway. He set a new meeting record after clearing 6.15-metres, with Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis second and Australian Kurtis Marschall third. South Africa’s Jo-Ané du Plessis finished third in the women’s javelin throw, which […]
# The Public Servants Association says it is extremely concerned about the impact of severe flooding in the Eastern Cape. The death toll from the floods has risen to over 70, with more than ten-thousand people displaced. Of that number, 61 died in Mthatha and surrounding areas. PSA’s spokesperson, Claude Naiker, says this disaster underscores […]
# The Minibus Taxi Task Team held a special meeting on Thursday, amid conflict that flared up between operators in Somerset West and Mfuleni in the past weeks. This follows the recent killing of eight taxi operators from the Cape Organisation for the Democratic Taxi Association and the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association in Mfuleni, Lwandle […]
# The DA has welcomed the long-overdue return today of the first group of South African National Defence Force soldiers deployed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The troops have been stationed in Goma since December 2023 in peacekeeping efforts amid tensions between DRC forces and M23 rebels. The DA’s Chris Hattingh says the […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema has formally written to president Cyril Ramaphosa requesting the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Prosecuting Authority. This follows remarks by National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi, who alleged the NPA has been infiltrated by corrupt prosecutors. Malema says the mandate of the proposed commission should […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile sê hy verwelkom die uitslag van die polisie se tugondersoek wat agt gewese lede van sy BBP-beskermingspan vrygespreek het. Dit volg ten spyte van videomateriaal wat wys hoe hulle in 2023 ʼn burgerlike op die N1 in Johannesburg aanrand. Die polisie se interne tugkomitee het bevind die video mag nie as […]
