# President Cyril Ramaphosa says Botswana can count on South Africa as a reliable neighbour, friend and partner as it continues on a path of modernisation, and towards a future of sustained development and prosperity. He made remarks during a state banquet in Gaborone yesterday evening. The president is on a two-day state visit to […]
# Die burgemeester van Johannesburg, Dada Morero, sê sy administrasie het sake onder beheer ten spyte van die swak toestand van die metro. Dit volg nadat die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, kommer uitgespreek het oor swak finansiële beheermaatreëls in die metro. Morero het gister in sy stadsrede erken dat Johannesburg se infrastruktuur en nutsdienste […]
# Die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, het ‘n versoek van die African Transformation Movement afgekeur om ‘n mosie van wantroue teen president Cyril Ramaphosa in te dien. Die mosie spruit voort uit die uitspraak van die Konstitusionele Hof, wat bevind het dat die Parlement onwettig opgetree het deur ‘n ampsklagondersoek teen die […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie waarsku dit kan tot nege maande duur voordat ‘n entstof teen die Bundibugyo-virus, wat die Ebola-uitbreking in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo en Uganda veroorsaak, beskikbaar is. Daar is tot dusver 600 vermeende Ebola-gevalle en 139 vermeende sterftes aangemeld. Die direkteur-generaal van die WGO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, sê die organisasie se noodkomitee […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed a series of breakthroughs in the fight against the Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme fraud. Arrests in Mpumalanga, a conviction in the Free State, and the preservation of assets obtained through the proceeds of crime represent over 27-million-rand in funds that were siphoned from the state. In Mpumalanga, […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal team has started the process of a review application against the Section 89 panel report, which found that he had a case to answer over the burglary at his Phala Phala farm. The legal team has requested permission from Chief Justice Mandisa Maya to serve papers on two former senior […]
# The US government has indicted former Cuban president Raúl Castro and five others. The criminal charges against the 94-year-old relate to his alleged role in ordering the 1996 shoot-down of two civilian aircraft belonging to the Cuban-American group Brothers to the Rescue. Castro, who was Defence minister at the time, is alleged to have […]
# Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has argued that he is entitled to adjust the fuel levy as he sees fit and in the public interest, as stated in the Customs and Excise Act. The Western Cape High Court has reserved judgment in the EFF’s application, challenging the Finance minister’s authority to determine and adjust the […]
# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero says, despite the poor state of the metro, his administration has things under control. This comes after minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana raised concerns about poor financial controls in the metro. Delivering this year’s state of the city address yesterday, Morero admitted that Johannesburg’s infrastructure and utility pressures remained severe, stating […]
