# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa has welcomed the modest fuel price decreases, attributed to a stronger Rand against the US dollar and lower oil prices. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five-cents a litre, while motorists will also pay 37 cents less for diesel at the pumps. Illuminating paraffin […]
# Roadrunning: The eThekwini Municipality says it is in full swing preparing for the 98th Comrades Marathon, one of the biggest sporting events on the South African calendar. More than 80 nations will be represented in the race, a down-run over approximately 89 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on Sunday. The municipality’s spokesperson, Gugu Sisilana, […]
# Die EFF in Gauteng sê die provinsiale regering moet ʼn deelnemende rol in die ekonomie speel omdat dit nie volhoubaar is om op beleggers staat te maak nie. Die LUR vir Finansies en Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling, Lebogang Maile, het die 2025/2026-begroting van 172,3-miljard-rand voorgelê. Dis 886,6-miljoen-rand meer as die een wat vroeër vanjaar ingedien is. Die […]
# Die Gaza Humanitêre Stigting wat deur Amerika en Israel ondersteun word, sê sy verspreidingsentrums is vandag gesluit. Dit volg nadat Israel se weermag Gaza-inwoners gewaarsku het om nie na hulpsentrums te reis nie omdat die paaie daarheen as oorlogsones beskou word. Gister is 27 mense dood wat bymekaargekom het om kos by een van […]
# Die minister van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling, Mmamoloko Kubayi, sê sy is bekommerd oor die uitspraak in die Moroadi Cholota-uitleweringsaak. Die Hooggeregshof in Bloemfontein het bevind Cholota se uitlewering uit Amerika in 2024 was onregmatig en ongrondwetlik. Dit volg nadat die gewese Vrystaatse premier, Ace Magashule, se voormalige persoonlike assistent die staat beskuldig het […]
# The GOOD Party says gender-based violence and femicide are a national crisis, and the Western Cape is not immune. Between January and March this year, one-thousand-189 rapes and 411 sexual assaults were reported in the province. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says when rape and murder become a normalised part of childhood in working-class communities, […]
# Tennis: Die verdedigende kampioen, Carlos Alcaraz, is die derde agtereenvolgende jaar deur na die Franse Ope se halfeindronde. Die 22-jarige Spanjaard het Tommy Paul van Amerika afgeransel. Hy is die jongste speler wat sewe halfeindrondes in mans-enkelspel Grand Slams haal sedert sy landgenoot, Rafael Nadal, dit in 2008 reggekry het. Alcaraz en Lorenzo Musetti […]
# The Democratic Party’s Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s snap presidential election, securing almost 50-percent of the vote. His main rival, Kim Moon-soo of the incumbent conservative People Power Party, has conceded defeat, saying he accepts the people’s decision. The election comes after former president Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and dismissed following his […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says it rejects the shallow celebration by government of the marginal 0.1-percent gross domestic product growth recorded in the first quarter of this year. It says this so-called growth is neither inclusive nor transformative. Saftu’s spokesperson, Newton Masuku, says fiscal, monetary and trade policy will have to […]
