# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, waarsku die Film- en Publikasieraad om sy oorsig en stryd teen aanlyn gevare te versterk. Dit volg terwyl Suid-Afrika vinnige tegnologiese verandering beleef. Die raad se afdwingingskomitee het vroeër die maand aangekondig hy het toegeslaan op nienakoming, en boetes van altesaam 16,1-miljoen-rand uitgereik. Malatsi sê […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het die minister van Polisie, die nasionale polisiekommissaris en die betrokke forensiese owerhede opdrag gegee om binne 60 dae ʼn befondste plan in te dien om forensiese agterstande in geslagsgeweld- en vrouemoord-sake te verminder. Die president het gisteraand ʼn reeks maatreëls en voorskrifte aangekondig nadat vroue in en om Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, […]
# Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê gesondheidswerkers wat die grootste Ebola-uitbreking ooit in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo bestry, sukkel met ernstige probleme om pasiënte te versorg. Met agt-duisend-67 bevestigde gevalle en drie-duisend-901 sterftes, is die sterftesyfer meer as 48-persent in 63 gesondheidsones in sewe van die DRK se 26 provinsies. Dokter Janet Diaz van die organisasie […]
# Die EFF verwelkom die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda in die Oos-Kaap se besluit om Julius Malema toestemming te gee om te appelleer teen sy skuldigbevinding in die vuurwapensaak. Hy is verlede jaar skuldig bevind aan oortreding van die Wet op Vuurwapenbeheer en in April tot vyfjaar-tronkstraf gevonnis. Malema is in 2018 verfilm waar hy ʼn […]
# Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi warned the Film and Publications Board to sharpen its oversight and strengthen the fight against online harms. This comes as South Africa confronts rapid technological change. Earlier this month, the board’s Enforcement Committee announced it had clamped down hard on non-compliance, issuing fines totalling 16.1-million-rand. Malatsi […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed the minister of Police, the National Commissioner of Police and relevant forensic authorities to submit, within 60 days, a funded plan to reduce forensic backlogs in gender-based violence and femicide cases. The president announced a series of measures and directives yesterday evening, following a series of killings of women […]
# The EFF has welcomed the decision of the Makhanda High Court in the Eastern Cape to grant Julius Malema leave to appeal his conviction in the firearm matter. He was found guilty of contravening the Firearms Control Act last year, and handed an effective five years in direct imprisonment in April. In 2018, Malema […]
# The World Health Organisation says health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient care. With eight-thousand-and-67 confirmed cases and three-thousand-901 deaths, the case fatality rate is more than 48-percent in 63 affected health zones in seven out of DRC’s 26 provinces. World Health Organisation doctor Janet […]
# Tennis: Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus says she is refreshed before her first tournament since losing the number one world ranking to Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan earlier this month. This happened after the US Open, where she also lost to Rybakina in the final. Sabalenka topped the rankings for 99 weeks, but the four-time Grand […]
