# Suid-Afrika het ‘n sleutel-ooreenkoms met die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger onderteken, slegs dae voor nuwe invoertariewe in werking tree. Amerika beplan om vanaf 1 Augustus die heffings op die meeste Suid-Afrikaanse uitvoere van 10- na 30-persent te verhoog. Belangrike grondstowwe soos platinum en chroom is uitgesluit. Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, het […]
# Dokters sonder Grense sê ‘n kwart van jong kinders en swanger vroue of vroue wat borsvoed wat verlede week in sy klinieke in Gaza getoets is, was ondervoed. Die mediese bystandgroep sê Israelse owerhede se doelbewuste gebruik van hongersnood as ‘n wapen in Gaza het ongekende vlakke bereik, met pasiënte en gesondheidswerkers wat ook […]
# Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery fire for a second day as their worst fighting in over a decade intensified and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire. At least 16 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in the escalating border battle. Both sides have blamed each other […]
# Die Britse minister van Wetenskap en Tegnologie, Peter Kyle, sê sy land steun die toekomstige stigting van ‘n Palestynse staat, maar dis eers noodsaaklik om die lyding in Gaza te verlig en ‘n wapenstilstand tussen Israel en Hamas te bewerkstellig. Hy het aan Sky News gesê Brittanje streef ook na gunstige toestande vir ‘n […]
# Die minister van Beplanning, Monitering en Evaluering, Maropene Ramokgopa, vra wêreldwye samewerking om openbare dienste te verbeter en ontwikkeling te finansier. Sy het op die G20 se ministeriële werkgroepvergadering in Mpumalanga die belangrikheid beklemtoon van solidariteit, finansiële geregtigheid en mense-gesentreerde groei. Ramokgopa waarsku dat slegs 52,4-persent van die wêreld-bevolking maatskaplike beskerming geniet en beklemtoon […]
# South Africa has signed a key agreement with the US trade representative, days before new import tariffs are set to take effect. From 1 August, the US plans to raise tariffs on most South African exports from 10-percent to 30-percent, excluding key minerals like platinum and chrome. Trade, Industry and Competition minister Parks Tau […]
# Afvaardigings het in Iran se konsulaat in Istanbul, Turkye, aangekom vir regstreekse gesprekke tussen Iran en die sogenaamde E3-groep – Frankryk, Brittanje en Duitsland. Reuters berig dat senior diplomate gereed is om samesprekings met Iran te voer die eerste keer sedert Amerikaanse en Israelse aanvalle op Iranse kernaanlegte in Junie. Dit is daarop gemik […]
# Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation minister, Maropene Ramokgopa, has called for global collaboration to improve public services and fund development. Speaking at the G20 Development Working Group Ministerial Meeting in Mpumalanga, she stressed solidarity, financial justice, and people-centred growth. Ramokgopa warned that only 52.4-percent of the global population has social protection and highlighted Africa’s 1.5-trillion-rand […]
# Doctors Without Borders charity says that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished. The medical aid group, known by its French acronym MSF, said that Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, […]
