# UDM leader Bantu Holomisa is calling for a joint investigative committee between South Africa and the US to probe the origins, intent, and credibility of claims of a white genocide in South Africa. US president Donald Trump has claimed that there is a genocide against the country’s white farmers, which the government has strongly […]
# The University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Humanities awarded an honorary doctorate to the wife of former president Thabo Mbeki, Zanele, for her lifelong advocacy for an inclusive society and for championing the rights of women. This focused particularly on empowering rural women and amplifying their voices. Mbeki established the organisation Women in Dialogue to […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 27 May 2025: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports US President Donald Trump has agreed to attend the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa. According to the paper, this follows a bilateral meeting with president Cyril Ramaphosa in which a range of trade and investment issues were discussed. Experts […]
# Die EFF het aan die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, geskryf en sê hy verwerp die voorgestelde inflasiegedrewe vier-persent-verhoging van die brandstofheffing. Die minister het verlede week in sy begrotingsrede aangekondig die prys van petrol verhoog van 4 Junie af met 16-sent per liter en die van diesel met 15-sent. Die EFF sê Nasionale […]
# Saftu is demanding the immediate reversal of the decision to drop the 30-percent broad-based black economic empowerment requirement for Elon Musk’s Starlink or any other corporation. This comes as minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, released a proposed policy direction to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa last Friday, seeking to amend […]
# The EFF has written to Finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, expressing its rejection to the proposed four-percent inflation-driven increase to the fuel levy. In his budget last week, the minister announced that from June 4th, the price of petrol will increase by 16-cents per litre and diesel by 15-cents per litre. The EFF says National […]
# Die DA se Federale Raad het ʼn mosie aanvaar om die party se standpunt teen onteiening sonder vergoeding te bevestig. Die party sê hy ondersteun Artikel 25 van die Grondwet, en dat regverdige en billike vergoeding soos deur ʼn geregshof bepaal, vir enige onteiening betaal moet word. Die DA se nasionale woordvoerder, Karabo Khakhau, […]
# Die adjunkminister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Sihle Zikalala, sê infrastruktuur- en nywerheidsontwikkeling is die twee sleuteluitdagings vir die land se ekonomie. Die Simposium oor Volhoubare Infrastruktuurontwikkeling het gister in Kaapstad begin, met president Cyril Ramaphosa wat vandag die hoofrede sal lewer. Zikalala sê die departement beoog om ‘n omgewing te skep wat bevorderlik […]
# The DA Federal Council has passed a motion to affirm the party’s longstanding position against the expropriation of property without compensation. The party says it supports Section 25 of the Constitution, and that just and equitable compensation adjudicated by a court of law must be paid for any expropriation. The DA’s national spokesperson, Karabo […]
