# Ten minste 50 mense, insluitend 40 kinders, is dood toe ‘n oorlaaide boot gister in Sokoto in die noordweste van Nigerië omgeslaan het. Daar was volgens berigte meer as 70 mense aan boord, wat boere en arbeiders ingesluit het wat gehuur is om rys te oes. Sestien mense is gered. Die Nasionale Binnelandse Waterweë […]
# Union federation Cosatu is concerned about the rise of far-right vigilante, racial and tribal groupings that pose a serious threat to South Africa’s hard-won non-racial democracy. AfriForum and the March and March movement announced a collaborative working group to cooperate on community safety, legal issues, education, and anti-crime initiatives. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says this strange […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over the ongoing crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. Last week, the High Court in Pretoria suspended the appointment of professor Hlengani Mathebula as administrator and restored the scheme’s remaining board members. This comes after minister Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela dissolved the board and […]
# Die GOOD-party sê AfriForum en die MK-party het niks behalwe ʼn voorkeur vir litigasie oor regeringsbeleide in gemeen gehad nie, tot die teen-immigrantegroep, March and March, met albei vriende gemaak het. AfriForum en March and March het ooreengekom om saam te werk wat regskwessies betref, ten spyte van aansienlike verskille tussen die twee drukgroepe. […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof hoor vandag ʼn dringende aansoek van die MK-party en die United Africans Transformation aan om te appelleer teen die tussentydse interdik dat die parlementêre Ampsklagkomitee sy verhore staak. Dit volg nadat die Konstitusionele Hof ʼn vroeëre appèl van die African Transformation Movement en ander partye verwerp het. Die interdik is hangende […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê groter aanspreeklikheid moet deel wees van ‘n uitgebreide poging om sterftes in bouwerk te verminder. Daarby is beter munisipale wette en professionele toesig nodig en die reguleerders moet inligting deel. Hy het inligting bekend gemaak oor vier bou-insidente in Redcliffe in Verulam, Doornkop in […]
# The Alliance of Citizens for Change has strongly condemned the brutal and senseless murder of former Knysna mayor and ANC councillor Ndoda Aubrey Tsengwa. According to a preliminary investigation, the 48-year-old councillor was travelling home with three other people when an unknown assailant opened fire on the vehicle before fleeing on foot in the […]
# The GOOD Party says AfriForum and the MK Party had nothing in common besides a taste for litigation to vent their disdain for the policies of government, before the anti-immigrant organisation March and March befriended both. AfriForum and March and March have agreed to work together on legal issues, despite significant differences between the […]
# At least 50 people, including 40 children, have died after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria’s northwest Sokoto state yesterday. The boat was believed to be carrying more than 70 people. According to reports, the boat had been carrying farm owners and labourers hired to harvest rice. Sixteen people have been rescued. The National […]
