# Nearly 80-percent of the world’s poor, 887 million people, live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards. This is according to a report by the United Nations Development Programme and Oxford University, ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil next month. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account […]
# Western Cape Agriculture, Economic Development and Tourism MEC, Ivan Meyer, has congratulated all South African destinations and products nominated for the World Travel Awards. South Africa has been nominated for the world’s leading destination, while Airports Company South Africa is up for the world’s leading airport operator. Cape Town has been nominated in several categories, […]
# Award-winning South African author Imraan Coovadia’s short story, Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic, has been shortlisted for the International Science Fiction Literary Awards. It has been shortlisted in the Foreign Language category. The story is inspired by psychological consequences suffered by people in Nairobi, Kenya, and Johannesburg, who had been hired to screen and […]
# AfriForum het kommer uitgespreek oor die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag se gebrek aan deursigtigheid wat die ontplooiing van soldate in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo betref. Die organisasie het in Februarie vanjaar ‘n versoek aan die SANW gestuur en dokumente aangevra wat die ontplooiing in die DRK regverdig, besonderhede oor die onkoste en befondsing, en […]
# Die Amerikaanse president Donald Trump het die spanning met Colombië verhoog en aangekondig dat alle betalings en subsidies aan die Suid-Amerikaanse land gestaak word. Die VSA het miljoene dollars in hulp aan Colombia verskaf, veral vir veiligheid en landbou. In ‘n plasing op Truth Social het Trump die Colombiaanse president Gustavo Petro as ‘n […]
# US president Donald Trump has escalated tensions with Colombia, announcing that America is ending all payments and subsidies to the South American country. The US has provided millions of dollars in assistance to Colombia, especially for security and agriculture. In a post on Truth Social, Trump labelled Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro an illegal drug […]
# Amptenare van die Limpopo-regering en die Zimbabwiese en Malawiese ambassades ontmoet vandag die families van die 43 mense wat verlede Sondag in ʼn busongeluk buite Louis Trichardt in Limpopo dood is. Die bus met 91 passasiers het van die pad geloop en teen ʼn wal afgestort. Die provinsiale regering se woordvoerder, Thilivhali Muavha, sê […]
# Minstens twee mense is dood toe ʼn vragvliegtuig by die Hongkong Internasionale Lughawe van die aanloopbaan geloop en in die see beland het. Die Emirates-vlug van Dubai het tydens landing ʼn voertuig getref en twee lede van die lughawe se grondpersoneel het in die see geval. Hulle is gered, maar het later in die […]
# AfriForum has expressed concern at the South African National Defence Force’s lack of transparency regarding the deployment of soldiers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In February this year, the organisation submitted a request to the SANDF, seeking documents that justify the deployment to the DRC, details of costs and funding, and the […]
