# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile se besoek aan Japan in Maart het belastingbetalers meer as 2,3-miljoen rand gekos, met byna 900-duisend-rand wat aan verblyf vir hom en sy vrou bestee is. Mashatile het in antwoord op ActionSA se parlementêre vrae bevestig die reis is onderneem om bilaterale bande te versterk en beleggingsgeleenthede te bevorder. News24 berig […]
# Chinese lugdienste mag dalk volgende maand tot 300 smalromp- en wyeromp Airbus-passasiersvliegtuie bestel wanneer Europese leiers Beijing besoek. Bloomberg News haal bronne aan wat sê China bestel gereeld stralers tydens staatsbesoeke, maar waarsku ‘n ooreenkoms is nie gewaarborg nie, veral te midde van wisselvalligheid rondom handel. Daar is ‘n tekort aan vliegtuie in China […]
# Johannesburg Water says following the completion of Rand Water’s Palmiet maintenance, it continues to implement technical measures to support the recovery of affected water systems. Spokesperson, Nombuso Shabalala says the restoration process resumed yesterday, and Johannesburg Water has put interventions in place, including throttling and temporarily closing outlets. She says most affected systems have improved:
# Volkswagen, Europa se grootste motorvervaardiger, oorweeg dit om ‘n monteeraanleg in Egipte te vestig. Die besturende direkteur vir die VW-groep in Afrika, Martina Biene, het aan Engineering News gesê dit is deel van ‘n plan om nuwe Afrika-markte te ontgin terwyl die aanvraag in Europa afneem. Volkswagen kan wel ‘n monteeraanleg vestig deur bestaande […]
# Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says a US proposal for a nuclear agreement was against the national interest, amid sharp differences over whether Tehran can continue to enrich uranium. The longtime foes have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new accord to replace the deal with major powers […]
# Build One South Africa urges president Cyril Ramaphosa to adopt its growth charter as the economy remains stagnant under the government of national unity. This comes as Statistics South Africa reports just 0.1-percent growth in the first three months of this year. BOSA’s Roger Solomons says the party’s growth charter outlines reforms in energy, […]
# Around 20-thousand people were evacuated from central Cologne after three unexploded World War Two bombs were found, the biggest such operation in the German city since the end of the war. Bomb squad technicians were planning to defuse the three American explosives, two weighing a thousand kilograms and one 500 kilograms, which were found […]
# Vietnamese police arrested administrators of a YouTube channel with two-million subscribers for allegedly spreading false information about state officials. Rights campaigners say the government in one-party Vietnam has in recent years stepped up a crackdown on civil society and weaponised the law to silence critics, especially people posting on social media. Human Rights Watch […]
# Former Free State premier Ace Magashule says his ex-personal assistant, Moroadi Cholota, will remain innocent even if the NPA appeals the Bloemfontein High Court ruling next Friday. The court found Cholota was unlawfully extradited from the US with the basis for her extradition lacking jurisdiction to charge her in the 255-million-rand asbestos fraud trial. […]
