# Die minister van Buitelandse Sake van Iran, Abbas Araghchi, verwerp bewerings dat sy regering betrokke was by ‘n komplot om die Israeliese ambassade in Londen te teiken, nadat sewe Iranse burgers in hegtenis geneem is. Die Britse polisie het gesê die sewe Iranse burgers is in afsonderlike operasies gearresteer vir moontlike “terrorisme-oortredings”. Brittanje se […]
# South Africa is bracing for a natural gas shortage starting next year, despite offshore discoveries between 2019 and 2020. The Petroleum Agency’s acting CEO, Bongani Sayidini, reports that the Brulpadda and the Luiperd fields off the Southern Cape coast have not yielded commercially viable quantities. Meanwhile, Wits Business School Advisory Board chairperson Priscillah Mabelane […]
# Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has rejected allegations his government was involved in a plot to target the Israeli embassy in London, following the arrest of seven Iranian nationals. British police said seven Iranian nationals were arrested on suspicion of “terrorism offences” in separate operations. Britain’s interior minister Yvette Cooper said the arrests came […]
# Drie mans tussen 18 en 22 is in hegtenis geneem nadat ’n skoen Sondag na Kenia se president, William Ruto, gegooi is tydens ’n byeenkoms in die Migori-distrik in die weste van die land. Die regering het die daad as ‘n skande veroordeel, terwyl aktiviste sê dit dui op die toenemende frustrasie oor ekonomiese […]
# Moody’s het sy voorspelling vir Suid-Afrika se BBP-groei vir vanjaar afwaarts aangepas na 1,5-persent – ’n afgradering van 0,2-persentasiepunte teenoor Februarie se vooruitskatting van 1,7-persent. Die agentskap verwys na wêreldwye beleidsonsekerheid en toenemende handelspanning. Plaaslike ekonome glo selfs dié vooruitskatting is optimisties, en verwag dat die Nasionale Tesourie die syfers moontlik verder kan verlaag […]
# Three young men aged 18 to 22 have been arrested after a shoe was thrown at Kenyan president William Ruto during a rally in Migori County, Western Kenya, on Sunday. The government condemned the act as disgraceful, while activists say it symbolises growing frustration over economic hardship and rising living costs. Despite scrapping tax […]
# Qatar Airways het aangekondig dat een van sy weeklikse vlugte vanaf Doha na Kaapstad vanaf 1 Junie met ‘n Boeing 777 sal wees, wat gratis ultra-vinnige Starlink wi-fi sal insluit. Die lugredery het reeds die wêreld se grootste vloot Starlink-toegeruste 777’s en is ook die eerste om die stelsel op Airbus A350’s aan te […]
# Die Britse hoëkommissariaat in Pretoria het die EFF-leier, Julius Malema, om verskoning gevra nadat sy Britse visum nie betyds verwerk is vir die naweek se konferensie by die Universiteit van Cambridge nie. Hoëkommissaris Antony Phillipson het standaardprosedures en onlangse Britse openbare vakansiedae aangehaal as redes vir die vertraging, terwyl Malema die land beskuldig van […]
# Moody’s has revised South Africa’s GDP growth forecast for this year down to 1.5-percent, a 0.2-percentage point downgrade from its February projection of 1.7-percent. It cites global policy uncertainty and rising trade tensions. Local economists believe even this projection is optimistic, suggesting National Treasury may lower estimates further in the budget. The downgrade reflects […]
