# Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi says South Africa needs stronger cooperation to combat harmful online content, misinformation and disinformation. Delivering the keynote address at the forum on Governance of Online Harmful Content and Freedom of Expression, Malatsi says government cannot tackle these challenges alone. He is calling on social media platforms, technology […]
# The African Independent Congress has announced Johannesburg Council Speaker Margaret Arnolds as its mayoral candidate for the 4 November local government elections. Arnolds has previously served as mayoral committee member for Community Development and Finance and currently serves as Speaker. The AIC says her campaign will focus on service delivery, accountability, infrastructure and local […]
# Die finansiëledienstegroep Momentum het sy teiken van sewe-miljard-rand in wesensverdienste ‘n jaar vroeër as beplan bereik. Die groep het vir die jaar tot Junie ‘n verdienste van 7,06-miljard-rand aangeteken, 13-persent hoër as die vorige boekjaar. Die uitvoerende hoof, Jeanette Marais, sê elke sake-eenheid het vir die eerste keer ‘n wins gelewer, met vyf afdelings […]
# Die voormalige minister van Verdediging, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, hou vol ’n pruik wat in WhatsApp-gesprekke met die militêre kontrakteur Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndlovu bespreek is, was werklik ‘n pruik en nie ’n kode-woord vir geld nie. Sy is in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria gevra hoekom sy herhaaldelik daarna verwys het. Mapisa-Nqakula, wat deur ’n tolk getuig, erken […]
# Former Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula maintains that a wig mentioned in WhatsApp exchanges with military contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndlovu was a genuine gift and not a coded reference to money. She was questioned in the High Court in Pretoria about why she repeatedly referred to the wig in messages with the contractor. Testifying via an […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die Konstitusionele Hof se uitspraak wat die Wet op Openbare Verkryging ongeldig verklaar, beskerm plaaslike en provinsiale regerings se reg om hul eie verkrygingsbesluite te neem. Die munisipaliteit het die wetgewing in die hof betwis op grond dat dit onwettig aanvaar en sonder voldoende openbare deelname deurgevoer is. […]
# AfriForum is tevrede met Amerika se jongste stappe teen Suid-Afrika, want dit sal nie gewone burgers benadeel nie, maar slegs politici en ander wat beskuldig word van ernstige menseregteskendings teen Afrikaners en ander minderhede. Dit sluit in oproepe tot geweld en grondonteiening sonder vergoeding. Woordvoerder Kallie Kriel sê die regering het hom doof gehou […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille has officially inaugurated South Africa’s first Club Med Beach and Safari Resort in KwaZulu-Natal, on behalf of president Cyril Ramaphosa. The development represents more than two-billion-rand in investment, created 600 permanent direct jobs, one-thousand-500 indirect jobs supported and more than two-thousand-300 jobs were created during construction. She says the […]
# Statistiek Suid-Afrika sê kleinhandelverkope was in Julie 3,4-persent hoër as dieselfde maand verlede jaar. Die groei is hoofsaaklik aangevuur deur algemene handelaars, ander kleinhandelaars en winkels wat klere, skoeisel en voedselprodukte verkoop. Verkope het ook met 2,5-persent toegeneem vergeleke met Junie. Raquel Floris van Statistiek Suid-Afrika sê kleinhandelverkope het oor die drie maande tot […]
