# US president Donald Trump’s administration has imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court president Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye. This brings to eleven the ICC officials sanctioned by the administration. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused the two of directly engaging in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials […]
# Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag sê die gaping tussen verwysings en vervolgings moet verstaan word teen die agtergrond van korrupsiesake se ingewikkeldheid. Die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid het sedert 2011 vyf-duisend-944 misdaadsake na die NVG verwys, maar slegs tien-persent het tot volledige dossiere en vervolgings gelei. In Gauteng was daar sedert 2011 twee-duisend-655 verwysings wat tot 206 dossiere […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services raised the alarm over prison death reporting failures after learning that only 54.5-percent of unnatural deaths and 51.59-percent of natural deaths in custody could be confirmed during the first quarter of the current financial year. Chairperson Kgomotso Ramolobeng says the figures point to serious oversight and administrative gaps. […]
# Rugby: Former Wallaby and Puma coach Michael Cheika will join the Waratahs from the next Super Rugby season. The 59-year-old Australian coached his national team from 2014 to 2019 and Argentina from 2022 to 2023, and also had coaching spells at teams such as Leinster, Stade Francais and Leicester Tigers. Cheika says his home […]
# Die Forum for South Africa sê die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente moet ontbind word en met ʼn nuwe, deursigtige, aanspreeklike model vervang word wat studentebefondsing professioneel bestuur. Die Openbare Beskermer se verslag oor die skema het tekortkominge in bestuur, administrasie en fonds-koördinering gevind. Die forum se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê Suid-Afrika kan nie […]
# Die burgerlike organisasie, Soil of Africa, vra omvattende hervorming by die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente. ʼn Ondersoek deur die Openbare Beskermer het onthul sowat 40-duisend studente by 76 hoëronderwys-instellings is onbehoorlik befonds teen ʼn koste van 5,1-miljard-rand. Die organisasie se woordvoerder, Luzuko Sofute, sê die land se studentebefondsing-krisis is nie meer net ʼn […]
# Tennis: Former US Open singles champions Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens have received wild cards into the women’s singles draw. They join five other players, including fellow Americans Carol Young Suh Lee, Reese Brantmeier and Thea Frodin. The US Tennis Association has held back one further wild card place, potentially for six-time champion Serena […]
# Parliament’s standing committee on Finance reaffirmed its consideration of the Special Pensions Amendment Bill will be guided by meaningful public participation. Chairperson Mkhacani Maswanganyi says it will also have to carefully assess liberation struggle veterans and other stakeholders’ concerns. He says these centre on whether the existing Special Pensions framework was too restrictive and […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority says the gap between referrals and prosecutions must be understood against the complexity of corruption cases. The Special Investigating Unit had made five-thousand-944 criminal referrals to the NPA since 2011, but only ten-percent translated to dockets and prosecutions. Gauteng has accounted for two-thousand-655 referrals since 2011, resulting in 206 dockets. […]
