# The DA in Gauteng says it is pleased that mayor Dada Morero and Johannesburg Water’s managing director Ntshavheni Mukwevho will account for the growing water crisis in the metro. The two will appear before Parliament’s portfolio committee on Water and Sanitation on Friday. Residents in Westbury, Coronationville, and Westdene, among other areas, have been […]
# US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, are reportedly expected to meet in New York today. The talks aim to lower the 30-percent tariff that America imposed on South African exports. The country’s trade-negotiation team has submitted a revised proposal in an effort to reach a lower […]
# Judges Matter’s Mbekezeli Benjamin says the MK Party’s legal challenges over Madlanga Commission of Inquiry’s legality is unwarranted. The commission began investigating allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi yesterday. The allegations include political interference and criminal syndicates infiltrating law enforcement and the judiciary. Speaking to SABC News, he stressed that allegations must […]
# Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says foreign laboratory tests on his biological samples confirm he was poisoned. The 47-year-old died in February 2024 in a Russian prison. Navalnaya, who has long accused Moscow of killing him, posted a video on X alleging two labs in different countries reached […]
# Die langverwagte Madlanga-kommissie begin vandag by die Brigitte Mabandla-justisiekollege in Pretoria. President Cyril Ramaphosa het die kommissie aangestel ná bewerings deur KwaZulu-Natal se polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Hy maak bewerings oor samespanning en korrupsie in die strafregstelsel. Hy beweer die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, het bande met ʼn misdaadsindikaat. Mkhwanazi sal die kommissie se […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se onafhanklike internasionale ondersoekkommissie oor die besette Palestynse gebied het bevind Israel se optrede in Gaza kom neer op volksmoord. In ʼn nuwe verslag word Israel onder meer beskuldig dat hy burgerlikes teiken wat hy volgens wet moet beskerm, en onmenslike toestande skep wat Palestyne se dood veroorsaak. Israel verwerp die […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Korrektiewe Dienste is bekommerd oor onnatuurlike sterftes onder gevangenes ná ʼn verslag van die Regterlike Inspektoraat vir Korrektiewe Dienste oor sy prestasie in 2025/2026 se eerste kwartaal. Die inspektoraat se klagtekantoor het 177 klagtes ontvang. Dit sluit 46 gevalle in waar gevangenes mekaar aangerand het, 29 klagtes oor beamptes wat […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services has expressed concern about the unnatural deaths of inmates in detention. The committee received a report from the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services on its first-quarter performance for 2025/2026. The JICS Complaints Unit received a total of 177 complaints, which includes 46 cases of inmate-on-inmate assault. There were […]
# The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory has concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide. In a new report, among a long list of accusations is Israeli targeting of civilians that it has a legal obligation to protect, and the imposition of inhumane conditions, causing the death […]
