# Standard Bank says South Africa’s agricultural sector is facing renewed financial pressure following the Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to increase the repo rate by 25 basis points to seven-percent. This is amid rising inflation, higher fuel prices, and concerns over a possible El Niño. Standard Bank’s Agribusiness for Business and Commercial Banking […]
# The Gauteng Health Department has issued an apology to student nurses affected by administrative delays in the payment of their stipends. Human Resources Management officials are finalising the capturing and verification of the required documentation. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says the relevant files are being submitted to e-Government to enable the processing of […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee decision to increase interest rates by 25 basis points, taking it to seven-percent from 6.75-percent, is economically reckless and socially destructive. The prime lending rate is now 10.5-percent. Saftu’s Asive Dyani says the rate hike decision is completely detached from […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Coco Gauff and world number one Aryna Sabalenka are through to the French Open third round. American Gauff eased past Egypt’s Mayar Sherif, 6-3, 6-2, while Sabalenka of Belarus beat France’s Elsa Jacquemot, 7-5, 6-2. Sixth-seeded American Amanda Anisimova also advanced to the third round after Austrian Julia Grabher retired after losing […]
# Die direkteur van die Britse spioenasie-agentskap GCHQ, Anne Keast-Butler, sê Brittanje word tans blootgestel aan al hoe meer onbeskaamde optrede van vyandige lande, insluitende Rusland. Sy het haar kantoor se jaarlikse bedreigingsopname bekendgemaak en gesê hulle help om roekelose sabotasie en sluipmoordpogings van die Kremlin af te weer. Keast-Butler sê volgens nuwe inligting verloor […]
# Die DA sê Suid-Afrika se naskoolse befondsingstelsel is onder geweldige en toenemende druk met universiteite en TVET-kolleges wat studenteskuld van 62-miljard-rand moet hanteer. Skuld aan universiteite beloop sowat 59-miljard-rand, insluitend ongeveer 29-miljard-rand van studente wat deur die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente befonds word. Delmaine Christians van die DA sê die oplossing vir studenteskuld […]
# Die EFF eis dat die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, president Cyril Ramaphosa se aansoek teenstaan om die Artikel 89-paneel se verslag te laat hersien. Hy het Dinsdag hofstukke by die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof ingedien om die verslag te laat hersien. Die paneel het bevind daar is prima facie-bewyse dat Ramaphosa moontlik die […]
# Krieket: Die tienersensasie Vaibhav Sooryavanshi het Rajasthan Royals tot ʼn oorwinning van 47 lopies oor Sunrisers Hyderabad gelei in hul Indiese Premierliga-uitskakelstryd. Die 15-jarige Sooryavanshi het 97 van net 29 balle gemoker en Royals het 243 vir agt gehaal. Jofra Archer het daarna drie paaltjies platgetrek en Sunrisers in hul laaste boulbeurt help uitboul […]
# Die ANC Groter Johannesburg Streek sê die Stad Johannesburg se R97-miljard begroting vir die 2026/2027 boekjaar wys ‘n dappper en beslissende intrede wat gerig is op herstel van die metro. Die begroting is gerig op die versterking van bestuur, die verbeter van belastinginsameling, vermindering van elektrisiteit- en waterverliese en die bevordering van operasionele doeltreffendheid. […]
