# Three of South Africa’s largest law firms, Bowmans, Webber Wentzel and Werksmans, will challenge the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Legal Sector Code of Good Practice in the Gauteng High Court next week. The code was published by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition in September 2024, and was designed to address the legacy injustices […]
# South Africa says it remains committed to the establishment and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons. The country is participating in the 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations in New York. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s Xolisa Mabhongo says South Africa will […]
# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner is through to the Madrid Open semifinals for the first time, continuing his bid for a fifth consecutive ATP Masters One-thousand title. The Italian beat 19-year-old Spaniard Rafael Jodar, 6-2, 7-6. Sinner will face Arthur Fils after the Frenchman defeated Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. In the […]
# The US Federal Reserve has decided to keep interest rates unchanged between 3.5 to 3.75-percent for a third time this year. The central bank has held steady on interest rates, citing uncertainty from president Donald Trump’s administration’s policies and the conflict in the Middle East. Trump has repeatedly called on the Federal Reserve to […]
AfriForum has laid a criminal complaint with the police against former Johannesburg mayor Thapelo Amad over alleged illegal firearm use. This follows a viral video, earlier this month, showing a man firing shots into the air at a funeral in Soweto. AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk says the incident may breach the Firearms Control Act and is […]
# AfriForum het ‘n strafregtelike klag by die polisie ingedien teen die voormalige burgemeester van Johannesburg, Thapelo Amad, oor beweerde onwettige vuurwapengebruik. Dit volg na ‘n wydverspreide video vroeër vandeesmaand wat ‘n man wys wat skote in die lug afvuur by ‘n begrafnis in Soweto. Jacques Broodryk van AfriForum sê die voorval mag die Wet […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Redakteursforum het besluit om ʼn onafhanklike regspan aan te stel om bewyse teen sy voorsitter en Sunday Times-redakteur, Makhudu Sefara, te ondersoek. Hy word in ʼn Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid-verslag betrek by ʼn vermeende oortreding wat met die Nasionale Loterykommissie verband hou. Todi Media Development het 1,5-miljoen-rand vir ʼn projek ontvang wat bedoel […]
# Die Parlement se ad hoc-komitee wat bewerings ondersoek deur die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, vra vir verdere uitstel. Die termyn vir die afhandeling van sy werk is reeds vier keer uitgestel en sou Donderdag verstryk. Die komitee het gister oor huishoudelike sake vergader, insluitend die inhandiging van die konsepverslag oor sy werk tot […]
# Tennis: Die 24-jarige Amerikaner Hailey Baptiste het ʼn loopbaan-hoogtepunt op die Madridse Ope beleef toe sy die wêreld-nommer-een, Aryna Sabalenka van Belarus, verslaan het om die eerste keer die halfeindronde te haal. Baptiste pak nou die negende-gekeurde Rus, Mirra Andreeva, wat die Kanadees Leylah Fernandez geklop het om haar eerste halfeindronde in die Spaanse […]
