# Swimming: Olympic champion Tatjana Smith has issued Swimming South Africa with a letter of demand seeking payment of interest on prize money allegedly retained for more than a year. She alleges that SSA retained the interest that accrued on 560-thousand-rand at the current exchange rate and 650-thousand-rand at the time in prize money earned […]
# Canadian prime minister Mark Carney says trade talks with the US can resume when Washington gets serious about negotiations. Last week, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America, a move rejected by Canadians. The Trump administration has levied 50-percent tariffs on Canadian goods, while […]
# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee chairperson, Makashule Gana, has given political parties until Friday to submit further nominations for an evidence leader. The committee rescinded its decision to recommend advocate Thandazani Madonsela as the evidence leader of its inquiry into president Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala saga. Ramaphosa objected to the appointment, citing potential conflicts […]
# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has welcomed Eskom’s decision to stop its process to cut electricity to parts of Johannesburg after the city settled five-billion-rand in overdue debt. OUTA says the immediate threat of power cuts has been removed, but questions remain about how the debt was paid and whether the solution will last. […]
# Beaufort West Municipality in the Western Cape has adopted a funded budget for the first time in six years, marking progress in its financial recovery. The municipality was placed under a financial intervention in 2022 after struggling to pay its bills and staff. Since then, it has improved its audit results and qualified for […]
# Die Beaufort-Wes Munisipaliteit in die Wes-Kaap het vir die eerste keer in ses jaar ‘n befondsde begroting aanvaar, wat vordering in sy finansiële herstel aandui. Die munisipaliteit is in 2022 onder finansiële ingryping geplaas nadat hy gesukkel het om sy rekeninge en personeel te betaal. Sedertdien het sy ouditresultate verbeter en gekwalifiseer vir skuldverligting […]
# Die Organisasie teen Belastingmisbruik het Eskom se besluit verwelkom om nie langer elektrisiteit na dele van Johannesburg af te sny nie, nadat die stad vyf-miljard-rand se agterstallige skuld vereffen het. OUTA sê die onmiddellike bedreiging van kragonderbrekings is verwyder, maar vrae bly voortbestaan oor hoe die skuld betaal is en of die oplossing sal […]
# Die adjunkminister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, sê instellings moet meer proaktief reageer op vaardigheidstekorte en veranderende ekonomiese behoeftes, eerder as om op riglyne van die regering te wag. Die departement se 2026/2027 Jaarlikse Prestasieplan is gegrond op ʼn hervormingsmandaat voortspruitend uit president Cyril Ramaphosa se verklaring van ʼn Nasionale Vaardigheidsrewolusie in […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika het Iran gedreig na Teheran se wraakaanvalle op Amerikaanse militêre teikens in Jordanië en die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate, en sê “ons gaan hulle hard slaan”. Amerikaanse magte het twee Iranse vuurpyllanseerders op die Larak-eiland in die Straat van Hormoes aangeval. Drie mense is in die aanval dood. Trump het […]
