# Die Verenigde Nasies sê die dodelike Ebola-uitbreking in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo versprei oor die land, ten spyte van ʼn mate van sukses om dit te beperk. Sewe-duisend-200 Ebola-gevalle is aangemeld en byna drie-duisend-500 mense is daaraan dood. Hierdie uitbreking is die tweede ergste op rekord. Die ergste was die een in Wes-Afrika […]
# Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says he is confident that all those responsible for the murders of the eight women in and around Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni will be brought to justice. A high-level, multidisciplinary police team is investigating the murders, as a 400-thousand-rand reward has been offered for information that could lead to a […]
# Acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane says a suspect has been arrested in connection with one of the murders committed in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, in July, while police are pursuing another person of interest. Eight women’s bodies have been discovered in the metro over the past two months. Dimpane says there are unknown victims, […]
# Government has signed a 16.2-billion-rand loan agreement with the New Development Bank to upgrade infrastructure for the Metropolitan Municipal Services. This is part of the Metro Trading Services Reform Programme, aimed at improving the governance, financial sustainability and operational performance of municipal trading services in metropolitan municipalities, particularly in water and sanitation, electricity and […]
# The United Nations says the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to spread across the country despite some success in containing it. Seven-thousand-200 Ebola cases have been recorded, with nearly three-thousand-500 deaths. The outbreak is the second most lethal on record, behind one in West Africa that lasted […]
# Athletics: The World Championships will head to Africa for the first time in 2029, when it will be hosted by the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. World Athletics also awarded the 2031 edition to Munich in Germany. Nairobi has hosted the World Under-18 Championships in 2017 and the Under-20 Championship four years later, but lost […]
# Trade union Solidarity has filed a complaint with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Washington, DC, against Amazon Web Services over a business development programme that requires applicants to be 100-percent black-owned. Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann says the requirement unfairly excludes businesses with any white ownership and goes beyond what South African law […]
# Atletiek: Die Wêreldkampioenskap gaan in 2029 die eerste keer in Afrika gehou word wanneer dit in die Keniaanse hoofstad, Nairobi, aangebied word. Wêreldatletiek het 2031 se byeenkoms aan München in Duitsland toegeken. Nairobi het in 2017 die Wêreld-onder-18-byeenkoms aangebied en vier jaar later die Onder-20-kampioenskap, maar sy bod teen Tokio in Japan verloor vir […]
# Die vakbond Solidariteit sê vordering is gemaak met die oplossing van vertragings in die uitreiking van die Rooiseëlambagsertifikate aan ambagslui. Belanghebbendes het ooreengekom oor stappe om die agterstand uit te wis en die sertifiseringsproses te verbeter. Die samesprekings volg op die vakbond se regsoptrede namens 87 ambagslui wie se sertifikate vertraag is. Stef Pretorius […]
