# Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has assured South Africans that the current Covid-19 variant, circulating in several countries, is no cause for concern. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases is closely monitoring the Nimbus or NB.1.8.1 Covid-19 variant. Infections have been confirmed in several Asian countries, including Thailand, Indonesia and China. In addition, the UK recorded […]
# The EFF says it rejects with contempt the 32-member eminent persons group president Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed, to guide and champion the National Dialogue initiative in the country. The group includes the likes of Springbok captain Siya Kolisi, activist Ela Gandhi, and Cosatu secretary general Bheki Ntshalintshali. The EFF says the majority of the […]
# Die GOOD-party sê president Cyril Ramaphosa se aankondiging van ‘ n nasionale konvensie in Augustus om ‘n Nasionale Dialoog bekend te stel, is lankal nodig om Suid-Afrika se maatskaplike kontrak te hernu. Die konferensie sal die agenda bepaal vir dialoog wat ‘n pad vir die land sal aandui, en ‘n dryfveer vir Visie 2030 […]
# Two final-year Bachelor of Architecture students from Tshwane University of Technology, Damian Ciaglia and Dineo Mogane, have won the national Saint-Gobain Architecture Student Contest. Their project, Re:Light, reimagines sustainable design by integrating light, timber and local heritage to create a vibrant community hub. Ciaglia and Mogane will now represent South Africa at the international Saint-Gobain Architecture […]
# Sewentig suidelike witrenosters van die Munywana-bewaringsgebied in Suid-Afrika is suksesvol hervestig in die Akagera Nasionale Park in Rwanda. Dis deel van ‘n strategiese tienjaarplan om renosters in veilige, geskikte en goed bestuurde beskermde gebiede in Afrika te hervestig. Die renosters maak ongeveer 15-persent uit van die wêreld se algehele witrenoster-bevolking. Die veldtog van Afrika […]
# The GOOD Party says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement of a National Convention in August to launch a National Dialogue is a long-overdue step toward renewing South Africa’s social contract. The convention will set the agenda for a dialogue that will chart a way for the country and drive progress towards Vision 2030. GOOD’s secretary general, […]
# Plastics recycling organisation, Polyco, has injected over 27-million-rand so far into low-income communities through its flagship Packa-Ching initiative. The initiative forms part of the organisation’s efforts to integrate waste reclaimers into the formal waste sector by including them in circular recycling economies in their communities. Polyco’s marketing manager, Chantal Philander, says they are supporting efforts […]
# Seventy southern white rhinos from South Africa’s Munywana Conservancy have been successfully relocated to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. The move was part of a strategic ten-year plan to rewild rhinos to safe, suitable and well-managed protected areas of Africa. The rhinos represent around 15-percent of the world’s total population of white rhinos. The African […]
# Die senior ekonoom van FNB, Thanda Sithole, sê werksomstandighede vir plaaslike vervaardigers bly ongunstig soos gesien kan word in die voortgesette afname in die vervaardigings aankope se bestuursindeks. Die vervaardigingsektor toon sy skerpste jaarlikse agteruitgang in meer as ‘n jaar met produksie wat in April jaar na jaar met 6,3-persent daal. Sithole sê in […]
