# Rugby: World Rugby promises a bigger, bolder and more accessible World Cup than ever in Australia in two years’ time. The tournament has been extended from 20 to 24 teams which will be divided into six groups of four teams each. World Rugby’s chairperson, Brett Robinson, says tickets will go on sale in February, […]
# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation director-general, Zane Dangor, says there are no guarantees that South Africa will secure a favourable trade deal with the US by Friday. Dangor spoke at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation seminar in Sandton and warned that demands around domestic policies like black economic empowerment are clouding the process. […]
# Die adjunkminister van Vervoer, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, sê die vervoersektor is noodsaaklik vir die werking van die samelewing, maar dit sluit mense uit voorheen benadeelde agtergronde, vroue en die jeug uit. Volgens verslae van die kommissie vir breed-gebaseerde swart ekonomiese bemagtiging was slegs 38,8-persent vervoer- en logistieke ondernemings in 2022 in swart besit teenoor 48,6-persent […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa ontken bewerings dat sy besluit om die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, op spesiale verlof te plaas eerder as af te dank op spesiale behandeling neerkom. Hy het dokumente by die Konstitusionele Hof ingedien in reaksie op ʼn dringende aansoek deur die MK-party en sy leier, Jacob Zuma. Die aansoek verklaar […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika stem nie saam met Israel se eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dat daar geen hongersnood in Gaza is nie. Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie waarsku wanvoeding in die gebied neem kommerwekkende afmetings aan. Trump, wat veral Hamas blameer vir die vertraging om hulp onder burgerlikes in Gaza te versprei, erken Israel het ook […]
# Deputy Transport minister, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, says the transport sector is instrumental in the functioning of society, yet it has excluded those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, women, and youth. According to the reports of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission, in 2022, only 38.8-percent of transport and logistics businesses were black-owned, which was a decrease […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied claims that his decision to place Police minister Senzo Mchunu on special leave rather than dismissing him amounted to special treatment of an ally. He has submitted papers to the Constitutional Court in response to an urgent application by the MK Party and its leader, Jacob Zuma. The application […]
# US president Donald Trump does not agree with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that there is no starvation in Gaza. The World Health Organisation has warned that malnutrition rates have reached alarming levels in Gaza. Trump, who has largely blamed Hamas for the delay in distributing aid to civilians in Gaza, acknowledged Israel […]
# Die Nasionale Mynwerkersunie sê die voortgesette waterkrisis in die Matjhabeng Plaaslike Munisipaliteit in die Vrystaat plaas die gesondheid en veiligheid van mynwerkers en omliggende gemeenskappe in ernstige gevaar. Die vakbond sê werkers word gedwing om klein botteltjies water in die ou myne af te neem om dan vir langer as agt ure sonder voldoende […]
