# Parliament’s Impeachment Committee will continue its preparatory work today. Among the agenda items is the implication of the recent Western Cape High Court decision on president Cyril Ramaphosa’s urgent application. The court granted the president an urgent interim interdict, pausing the impeachment process, while his application to review the independent panel’s report that found he […]
# Die Amerikaanse Sentrale Bevel sê Iran se Islamitiese Rewolusionêre Wagkorps het in ʼn “verrassingsaanval” ballistiese missiele op Amerikaanse basisse in die streek afgevuur. Al die missiele is onderskep. Centcom sê die Amerikaanse weermag en magte van Saoedi-Arabië het gesamentlike presisie-aanvalle uitgevoer teen “Iran-gesinde terroriste” in Irak. Hy sê die aanvalle was gemik op groepe […]
# Outgoing South African National Roads Agency Limited CEO, Reginald Demana, has admitted that the agency was ill-equipped to award the 9.5-billion-rand routine road maintenance tender to a panel of 20 companies. The High Court in Pretoria declared the tender unconstitutional and unlawful, after two construction companies, BCB Solutions and Botle Ba Afrika Roads, challenged […]
# Commonwealth Games: South African swimmers secured another five medals to take the country’s tally to 16 in Glasgow. Chad le Clos earned a record-equalling 20th Games medal as he helped Team SA claim silver in the mixed four-by-100-metres relay. Lara van Niekerk won gold in the women’s 50-metres breaststroke. Aimee Canny secured silver in […]
# The US Central Command says Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at American bases in the region, in what amounted to a “surprise attack”. All the missiles were intercepted. In retaliation, Centcom says the US military and Saudi Arabian forces conducted joint precision strikes “against Iran-aligned terrorists” in Iraq. It says the […]
# Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia has assured the public that there is no shortage of adult or child rape evidence collection kits. According to Cachalia, the kits are available nationwide, and more are being distributed to keep facilities fully stocked. Police ministry spokesperson Kamogelo Mogotsi says the kits are vital for collecting forensic evidence, […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het die publiek verseker daar is geen tekort aan toetsstelle vir bewyse van verkragting vir volwassenes of kinders nie. Volgens Cachalia is die stelle landwyd beskikbaar, en meer word versprei om fasiliteite volledig te voorsien. Die woordvoerder van die Polisieministerie, Kamogelo Mogotsi, sê die stelle is noodsaaklik […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Suikerrietkwekersvereniging het die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, gevra om die tariefmeganisme vir suiker-invoere te finaliseer om werklikhede in die huidige plaaslike suikermark te weerspieël. Nuwe data toon 94-duisend-984 ton suiker is tussen Januarie en Mei ingevoer teenoor 55-duisend-213 ton in dieselfde tydperk verlede jaar. Die Internasionale Handelsadministrasie-kommissie bepaal […]
# Die MK-party het president Cyril Ramaphosa se “vinnige aanvaarding” van advokaat Andrea Johnson se bedanking as hoof van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie gekritiseer. Die president het haar bedanking aanvaar na aanbevelings deur die minister van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling, Mmamoloko Kubayi, en die Nasionale Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, advokaat Andy Mothibi. Mzwanele Manyi van […]
