# Tech billionaire Elon Musk has criticised South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment laws. He claims the Starlink internet service was barred from operating in the country because he is not black. To operate in South Africa, Starlink needs to obtain network and service licences, which both require 30-percent ownership by historically disadvantaged groups. Government is […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau, together with minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, met with US Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Lee Greer in Washington. America is South Africa’s second-biggest trade partner after China. Minister Steenhuisen says the meeting centred on ensuring open and mutually beneficial access for agricultural products that create jobs […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says he is looking forward to a really good and positive meeting with US president Donald Trump today. He visited the South African embassy in Washington on Tuesday, where he received a strategic briefing from his ministers. The government has labelled the much-anticipated talks an opportunity to reset relations. Ramaphosa says a […]
# Lede van die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie het gister ‘n ooreenkoms aanvaar om voorbereiding vir moontlike toekomstige pandemies te verbeter na die onsamehangende wêreldwye reaksie op Covid-19. Na drie jaar van onderhandelinge is die wettige verdrag deur die Wêreldgesondheidsvergadering in Genève aangeneem. Die verdrag word beskou as ‘n oorwinning vir lede van die wêreldgesondheidsagentskap in ‘n tyd […]
# Members of the World Health Organisation adopted an agreement yesterday intended to improve preparedness for future pandemics following the disjointed global response to Covid-19. After three years of negotiations, the legally binding pact was adopted by the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The pact was touted as a victory for members of the global […]
# Die Britse minister van Buitelandse Sake, David Lammy, het in ‘n toespraak aan die Britse Parlement gesê talle burgerlikes in Gaza word bedreig weens hongersnood. Hy het bygevoeg die Israeliese weermag se blokkade van elf-weke wat verhoed dat humanitêre hulp Gaza bereik, is “onverdedigbaar en wreed”. Lammy sê die Verenigde Koninkryk skort onderhandelings met […]
# The UK Secretary of State, David Lammy, addressing the UK Parliament, said the threat of starvation is hanging over hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza. He added that the eleven-week blockade by the Israeli Defence Force stopping humanitarian aid reaching Gaza is “indefensible and cruel”. ” Lammy says the UK is suspending negotiations […]
# Die Amerikaanse minister van Gesondheid, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., het die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie as opgeblase en leweloos bestempel en ander lande aangespoor om eerder by hulle aan te sluit en nuwe instellings te skep. In ‘n videoboodskap aan die Wêreldgesondheidsvergadering het Kennedy gesê die VN-agentskap is onder onbehoorlike invloed van China, geslagsideologie en die farmaseutiese […]
# US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. branded the World Health Organisation bloated and moribund, and urged other countries to consider joining them in creating new institutions instead. In a video message to the World Health Assembly, the WHO’s decision-making body, Kennedy said the UN agency was under undue influence from China, gender ideology […]
