# Transport minister Barbara Creecy has commended the Transnet Port Terminals for its turnaround in operational efficiency. Since June this year, the entity has consistently averaged more than 90-thousand twenty-foot equivalent units per week, a sharp improvement from the same period last year, when volumes hovered around 65-thousand. This marks a year-on-year increase of 7.2-percent […]
# Sterrekykers in talle wêrelddele, ook Suid-Afrika, het Sondagaand ‘n seldsame algehele maanverduistering, bekend as ‘n “bloedmaan”, waargeneem. Die skouspel van 82-minute – een van die langste in ‘n dekade – het afgespeel toe die Aarde tussen die maan en die son ingeskuif het en sy skaduwee op die maan se oppervlak geval het. NASA […]
# Die DA doen ʼn beroep op die regering om ʼn Kuber-kommissaris aan te stel terwyl kunsmatige-intelligensie-gedrewe slenters en digitale bankbedrog toeneem. Volgens die Suid-Afrikaanse Bankrisiko-inligtingsentrum het die aantal digitale bankbedrogsake tussen 2023 en 2024 verdubbel, met finansiële verliese wat van een-miljard- tot 1,4-miljard-rand toegeneem het. Glynnis Breytenbach van die DA sê Suid-Afrikaners verdien veiliger […]
# The minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, will attend the 63rd Annual Session of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation Conference in Uganda this week. Forty-nine countries, including South Africa, are presently members of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation. The ministry’s spokesperson, Terrence Manase, says minister Kubayi’s participation will reaffirm South Africa’s commitment […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile in sy hoedanigheid as voorsitter van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Vigs-raad, open vandag die 12de Suid-Afrikaanse Vigskonferensie by Emperors Palace in Gauteng. Die tema is: Verenig vir verandering – Bemagtig gemeenskappe en herdefinieer prioriteite vir MIV/Vigs. Die Presidensie sê die geleentheid bring leiers, navorsers en akademici van reg oor die wêreld byeen […]
# The Moja Research Institute says former president Thabo Mbeki should not allow former Democratic Republic of Congo president, Joseph Kabila, to whitewash him as a peacemaker and hero. Mbeki and his foundation have come under criticism for inviting representatives of the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23 to the second African Peace and Security Dialogue held […]
# Electricity and Energy deputy minister, Samantha Jane Graham-Maré, says the creation of Eskom Green will mark a new chapter in South Africa’s electricity story. Eskom Green will be one of the four unbundled entities that will fall under the power utility’s holding company, with a mandate to drive renewable storage and green hydrogen. Eskom […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dion George, is attending the second Africa Climate Summit in Ethiopia this week. The summit provides a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses, and civil society to advance Africa’s climate agenda and sustainable development priorities. This year’s theme is Accelerating Global Climate Solutions: Financing for Africa’s Resilient and […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Electricity and Energy has expressed concern regarding the allegations surrounding the governance crisis at the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa. The company is without a functioning board after five board members resigned last week. The development comes after the board failed to get ministerial support to suspend the corporation’s CEO, […]
