# The DA says president Cyril Ramaphosa needs to urgently appoint the board for the National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. Parliament’s portfolio committee on Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities submitted proposed names to the president in March. The DA’s Angel Khanyile says the council is a critical stakeholder in curbing the scourge […]
# Western Cape premier Alan Winde says Eskom has restored electricity to 80-percent of affected customers as recovery and mop-up operations continue. This follows severe weather incidents that caused widespread damage to infrastructure, disrupted electricity supply and affected hundreds of roads across the province. Winde says in the Cape Winelands District, repairs to the main […]
# Motorsport: Mercedes se renjaer, Kimi Antonelli het sy voorsprong in die Formule Een-bestuurderskampioenskap tot 43 vergroot toe hy die Kanadese Grand Prix gewen het. Dis die Italianer se vierde agtereenvolgende oorwinning. Sy spanmaat George Russell, wat voor weggespring het, het weens ʼn foutiewe krageenheid onttrek. Die sewemalige wêreldkampioen, Lewis Hamilton van Ferrari, was tweede […]
# The EFF has accused the ANC of deliberately obstructing the Phala Phala impeachment process by failing to appoint members to the committee. According to reports, the ANC missed the 22nd May deadline to submit names to serve on the committee, as chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli and secretary‑general Fikile Mbalula allegedly clashed over representation. The EFF […]
# President Volodymyr Zelensky van Oekraïne sê Rusland se gebruik van sy hipersoniese Oreshnik- ballistiese missiel mag nie ongestraf bly nie. Moskou het die naweek ʼn massiewe aanval op Kiëf en die omliggende streek uitgevoer waarin minstens vier mense dood en ongeveer 100 beseer is. Die Russiese ministerie van Verdediging sê dis uit weerwraak vir […]
# The City of Tshwane Emergency Services Department says firefighters discovered a body under rubble during mop-up operations, following a shack fire that ripped through Plastic View informal settlement yesterday. Approximately 150 shacks were affected. Emergency Services spokesperson, Nana Radebe-Kgiba, says during the search and recovery operations, firefighters discovered the body among the debris. She says […]
# AfriForum doen ‘n beroep op owerhede om die ondersoek na die moord op ‘n bejaarde egpaar in die Krugerwildtuin as ‘n saak van nasionale belang te hanteer. Hul liggame is ná ‘n soektog by ‘n piekniekplek by Crooks Corner by die samevloei van die Limpopo- en Levubu-rivier gevind nadat hulle nie na hul kamp […]
# ActionSA says former South African Revenue Service commissioner, Edward Kieswetter, is the right person to chair the newly established Police Advisory Panel. The panel’s primary mandate is to evaluate progress on the police’s reset agenda and accelerate the implementation of recommendations from the Madlanga Commission. The commission has heard testimony of corruption and criminal […]
# Die ministers vir Justisie, Misdaadvoorkoming en Sekuriteit het vir vandag ʼn dringende vergadering in Pretoria belê om die toenemende betogings teen immigrasie en onwettige buitelanders in die land te bespreek. Daar is ʼn beroep op die regering gedoen om immigrasiewette toe te pas en teen ongedokumenteerde buitelanders op te tree. Die ministers sal ʼn […]
