# RISE Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi says president Cyril Ramaphosa must show serious commitment to national security. Speaking during the Defence and Military Veterans Budget Vote debate, Zibi criticised South Africa’s outdated defence equipment and lack of a clear National Security Strategy. He called for new leadership in the armed forces, citing corruption and mismanagement. […]
# Lesotho het ‘n nasionale noodtoestand aangekondig oor die drastiese toename in werkloosheid en massiewe werksverliese terwyl dit steier onder die ekonomiese gevolge van VSA-tariewe en minder buitelandse hulp. Die ekonomie, wat tekstiel-intensief is, het reeds met hoë werkloosheid, veral onder jongmense, gesukkel voor president Donald Trump hulp gesny en invoertariewe verhoog het. Die wet, […]
# Trade union Solidarity has urged Bidvest to amend its bursary programme by 25 July or face legal action. The union says the current scheme unfairly excludes white children from low-income families. Bidvest offers a bursary scheme for African, coloured and Indian children of employees who earn less that 15-thousand-rand per month. Solidarity’s Anton van […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus sê Amerika se aangekondigde handelstariewe van 30-persent het waarskynlik ‘n onderliggende geopolitieke motivering en is ‘n regstreekse aanval op die ekonomiese voordele wat AGOA vir Suid-Afrika inhou. Jaco Mulder van die party sê die tariewe is ook ‘n reaksie op Suid-Afrika se groeiende diplomatieke en ekonomiese bande met lande wat deur […]
# Sakeliga and the National Employers Association of South Africa have filed an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria to stop the implementation of the 2025 Employment Equity quotas. They argue the rules, which force companies with over 50 workers to match national race and gender targets, are unconstitutional and procedurally flawed. Sakeliga’s […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi beywer hom vir digitale insluiting by die Wêreldberaad oor die Inligtingsgemeenskap in Genève, Switserland, waar hy as voorsitter optree. Die vierdaagse beraad word deur wêreldleiers, tegnologiereuse en die burgerlike samelewing bygewoon en hoop om die globale digitale kloof te oorbrug en innovering te bevorder. Malatsi […]
# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola announced that the head of the Hawks in the Western Cape, Solomon Makgato has been appointed as acting divisional commissioner for crime intelligence. He says this follows the arrest of the divisional commissioner for crime intelligence Dumisani Khumalo and six others over fraud allegations last month. Masemola says they have full […]
# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola says a total of 12-thousand-499 illegal firearms that were collected across the country, have been destroyed in Gauteng today. Masemola was speaking at the firearm destruction at Cape Gate steel in Vanderbijlpark. He says Gauteng brought in the majority of firearms with five-thousand-and-99 followed by the Western Cape with two-thousand-333, […]
# The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry Trade Conditions Survey for May and June shows trade conditions have dipped into negative territory, reversing earlier improvements in March and April. While 51-percent of respondents said June conditions were better than a year ago, only 62-percent expect improvements over the next six months, down from […]
