# Die Wes-Kaapse regering het die minister van Landbou, Willie Aucamp, se voorstel verwelkom dat maatskappye in die privaat sektor toegang kry tot die Landbounavorsingsraad se intellektuele eiendom oor entstof teen bek-en-klouseer. Die navorsingsraad se entstof is baie doeltreffend teen die plaaslike bek-en-klouseer-stamme, maar weens vervaardigingsbeperkings kan die raad tans nie genoeg vervaardig nie. Die […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Polisie het kommer uitgespreek oor aanklagte teen die geskorste nasionale adjunk-polisiekommissaris, Shadrack Sibiya. Hy staar vyf aanklagte in die gesig, insluitend verkragting, mensehandel, bevordering van die seksuele gereedmaking van ʼn kind, en twee van seksuele gereedmaking van ʼn kind. Sibiya word beskuldig dat hy ʼn 16-jarige meisie seksueel gereedgemaak en […]
# Brasilië se president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, sê sy land sal nie plaaslike of buitelandse inmenging toelaat by wat hy die mense se demokratiese keuse noem nie. Dit kom te midde van toenemende bewerings van buitelandse inmenging by die land se verkiesing in Oktober, waar Lula da Silva sal probeer om ʼn vierde, […]
# South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Mxolisi Sizo Nkosi, says the country is pushing for greater African representation on the UN Security Council. The council comprises five permanent members and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms. Africa currently has representation among the council’s elected members, but no permanent seat. Nkosi […]
# The Western Cape government has welcomed Minister of Agriculture Willie Aucamp’s proposal to allow qualifying private sector companies access to the Agricultural Research Council’s intellectual property relating to foot-and-mouth disease vaccines. The ARC vaccine is a very effective defence against the domestic FMD strains; however, due to manufacturing constraints, the research council is currently […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police has expressed concern at the charges against suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya. He faces five charges, including rape, trafficking in persons, promoting the sexual grooming of a child, and two counts of sexual grooming of a child. Sibiya is accused of sexually grooming a 16-year-old girl and […]
# Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his country will not allow domestic or foreign actors to interfere with what he describes as the people’s democratic choice. This comes amid growing allegations of foreign interference in Brazil’s October elections, in which Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth, non-consecutive presidential term. Addressing the […]
# Swimming: South Africa’s four-time Olympic medallist, Tatjana Smith, says her return to competition tomorrow is aimed at preparing for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. She entered for the 50-, 100- and 200-metres breaststroke in the South African short-course championships in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. Twenty-nine-year-old Smith retired after the 2024 Paris Games, where she clinched […]
# The GOOD Party says narratives of White persecution could deepen racial divisions and strengthen populist political parties. GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron says such rhetoric undermines South Africa’s post-apartheid settlement and commitment to non-racialism. He added minority groups should not be targeted, as South Africa’s democratic transition avoided revenge against the White population. Herron urges […]
