# The South African Municipal Workers’ Union says that while it supports measures aimed at improving law enforcement, the City of Cape Town should first address the longstanding concerns of employees who are expected to carry additional responsibilities. Last month, the metro formally declared an intergovernmental dispute with Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia, following the […]
# Minister of Higher Education and Training, Buti Manamela, has called on the South African Students Congress to help government defend the National Student Financial Aid Scheme from fraud, manipulation and opportunism. An investigation by the Special Investigating Unit found widespread fraud and improper payments in NSFAS’ student funding system. The department’s spokesperson, Matshepo Seedat, says […]
# Germany’s Alternative for Germany has secured a resounding victory in Saxony-Anhalt, placing it in power at the state level for the first time since World War Two. Preliminary results show the party won 44.4-percent of the vote. It has, however, fallen short of an absolute majority. The party of Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the […]
# ‘n Kragtige uitbarsting van Indonesië se berg Anak Krakatau het noodgedwonge gelei tot die tydelike sluiting van Jakarta se Soekarno-Hatta Internasionale Lughawe en drie streeksentrums. Vlugte is vroeg vandag opgeskort nadat gevaarlike vulkaniese aswolke in belangrike vlugroetes ingedryf het. Meer as 209 vlugte is gekanselleer, wat meer as 22-duisend passasiers gestrand gelaat het. Belangrike […]
# Die EFF-leier, Julius Malema, het onderneem om munisipale skuld wat deur arm inwoners verskuldig is, af te skryf indien die party in Mbombela, Mpumalanga die beheer daar oorneem. Malema het tydens die EFF se Mpumalanga-manifesbekendstelling in eMalahleni, in aanloop tot die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing op 4 November, gepraat. Hy het ANC-amptenare se leierskap gekritiseer. Hy sê […]
# A powerful eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Anak Krakatau has forced the temporary closure of Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and three regional hubs. Flight operations were suspended early today, after dangerous volcanic ash clouds drifted into major flight paths. The disruption has grounded over 209 flights, leaving more than 22-thousand passengers stranded. Major international routes […]
# Die Afrika Mayibuye-beweging het gister sy eerste herdenking gevier met die bekendstelling van sy manifes in Tembisa vir die 2026-plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing op 4 November. Mayibuye se president, Floyd Shivambu, het Gauteng se burgemeesterskandidate bekendgestel, insluitend Themba “Skeem-GP” Nzimande vir Ekurhuleni. Tshwane, Emfuleni, Sedibeng en Midvaal se kandidate is ook bekend, terwyl Johannesburg afsonderlik aangekondig sal […]
# Rugby: Die Springbok-vroue het met 52-20 teen Nieu-Seeland se Swart Varings verloor in ‘n geskiedkundige toets op die FNB-stadion in Johannesburg. Suid-Afrika het hard teruggeveg, maar Nieu-Seeland se spoed en kragtige aanvalle was deurslaggewend. Mede-hoofafrigter, Laurian Johannes-Haupt, sê die span het hulle geloofwaardigheid gevestig, veral in die skrum en voorryspel. Sy sê die Springbok-vroue […]
# Die 19de FNB Art Joburg sluit vandag af by die Sandton-konferensiesentrum, met meer as 100 kunstenaars, galerye en uitstallers oor agt saamgestelde afdelings wat verteenwoordig word. Hoogtepunte sluit in George Mahashe se interaktiewe camera obscura en die Botswana-gebore beeldhouer Kelebogile Marope, wat die 2026 FNB-kunsprys gewen het. Die uitstalling het ook “Women’s March to […]
