# The DA has reiterated its call for full transparency on every appointment made under the current National Student Financial Aid Scheme, including the remuneration, mandates and approval processes relating to advisors and consultants. This comes after National Treasury rejected minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela’s 11-million-rand proposed remuneration package for NSFAS administrator […]
# Die Amerikaanse weermag het nuwe lugaanvalle op Iran uitgevoer in reaksie op dié land se pogings om Amerikaanse magte in die Midde-Ooste aan te val. Iran het vroeër die week missiele op Amerikaanse militêre instellings in Jordanië afgevuur. Intussen het die VSA en Saoedi-Arabië saamgewerk en Teheran-ondersteunde soldate in Irak aangeval. Minstens 20 soldate […]
# Acting National Police Commissioner, Puleng Dimpane, says the appointment of Sizakhele Dyantyi as the new Western Cape Police Commissioner was more than just filling a vacancy. She says it’s about identifying a leader capable of reading the current temperature of policing in the province. Dyantyi succeeds Thembisile Patekile, who retired at the end of last month […]
# Cabinet has reportedly approved the appointment of deputy minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Seiso Mohai, to take over the reins at the Public Investment Corporation. This follows the resignation of deputy Finance minister David Masondo as the board’s chairperson. According to TimesLive, Mohai’s appointment comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa sought legal […]
# Commonwealth Games: Chad le Clos is now the most decorated athlete in the history of the Games, earning his 21st medal as South Africa secured bronze in the men’s four-by-100-metres medley relay in Glasgow. The women’s four-by-100-metres also won bronze. Pieter Coetzé won gold in the men’s 100-metres backstroke in a new Games record […]
# The US military launched fresh airstrikes against Iran, in response to the attempted Iranian attacks on American forces based in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Iran launched a barrage of missiles at American military installations in Jordan, meanwhile the US partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Tehran-backed militias in Iraq, killing at least […]
# Die parlementêre Ampsklagkomitee gaan vandag voort met sy voorbereidingswerk. Een van die agendapunte is die gevolg van die onlangse beslissing deur die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof oor president Cyril Ramaphosa se dringende aansoek. Die hof het ‘n dringende tussentydse interdik aan die president toegestaan, wat die ampsklagproses onderbreek, terwyl sy aansoek vir die hersiening van die […]
# Die uittredende hoof van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap, Reginald Demana, erken die agentskap was nie opgewasse om die padonderhoud-tender van 9,5-miljard-rand aan ʼn paneel van 20 maatskappye toe te ken nie. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die tender ongrondwetlik en onregmatig verklaar nadat twee konstruksiemaatskappye, BCB Solutions en Botle Ba Afrika Roads, SANRAL se […]
# Statebondspele: Suid-Afrikaanse swemmers het nog vyf medaljes ingepalm en die land se totaal in Glasgow tot 16 laat styg. Chad le Clos het sy 20ste Statebondspele-medalje ingepalm toe hy Span SA gehelp het om silwer te wen in die gemengde vier-maal-100-meter-aflos. Lara van Niekerk het goud gewen in die vroue-50-meter-borsslag, terwyl Aimee Canny silwer […]
