# Cosatu has urged government to provide further fuel levy relief to cushion embattled workers amid the Middle Eastern conflict. Petrol prices will rise by a further one-rand-43-cents a litre at midnight, while diesel prices will fall by as much as three-rand-23-cents a litre. The general fuel levy relief has been reduced. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says […]
# The European Union says it is committed to creating a stable, predictable, enabling environment for sustainable growth in South Africa. The EU is holding a first-of-its-kind investment roadshow in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban this week, aimed at mobilising capital under the 2025 EU-SA Clean Trade and Investment Partnership. This is to support the […]
# Rusland het gisteraand en tot in die vroeë oggendure ‘n hewige hommeltuig- en missielaanval op die Oekraïnse hoofstad Kiëf uitgevoer, met minstens vier mense dood en meer as 20 beseer. Dit volg na ‘n waarskuwing verlede week deur Moskou dat hy van plan is om sistematiese aanvalle op teikens in Kiëf uit te voer, […]
# Die Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations het sowat 818-miljoen-rand aan die farmaseutiese maatskappy, Moderna, en twee ander groepe bewillig. Die doel is om vinnig ʼn entstof te ontwikkel teen die Bundibugyo-stam van die Ebola-virus, wat deur die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo en Uganda woed. Die uitbreking het 250 sterftes veroorsaak en ongeveer een-duisend mense […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, sê hy het Amerika versoek om bewyse te lewer dat Suid-Afrika goedere invoer wat deur dwangarbeid gemaak is. Amerika se handelsverteenwoordiger, Jamieson Greer, het 60 lande geïdentifiseer wat vermoedelik skuldig is aan onregverdige handelspraktyke en die gebruik van dwangarbeid. Dit sluit Suid-Afrika, Kanada, Australië en […]
# Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv last night and through to the early hours of this morning, killing at least four people and injuring over 20. This comes after Moscow warned last week that it intended to launch systematic strikes on targets in Kyiv, in response […]
# The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations has committed around 818-million-rand to pharma company Moderna and to two other groups. This is to help accelerate the development of a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus, which has swept through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The outbreak has caused 250 deaths […]
# Die Europese Unie sê hy is gereed om by te dra tot ʼn volhoubare en vreedsame oplossing tussen Amerika en Iran. ʼn Voorlopige vredesooreenkoms wat deur Pakistan bemiddel is, word deur die twee lande oorweeg terwyl president Donald Trump van Amerika sê die fokus is op Iran se kern-vermoë. Die EU se verteenwoordiger vir […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, says he has requested the US to provide evidence that South Africa is importing goods using forced labour. The US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has flagged 60 countries, including South Africa, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, on suspicion of unfair trade practices and the use […]
