# The Qatari government has dismissed controversy surrounding US president Donald Trump’s plan to accept its gift of a luxury jumbo jet, to be used as America’s Air Force One presidential plane. The US Constitution has a provision known as the Emoluments Clause, which restricts what gifts presidents can accept from foreign governments. Qatar Foreign ministry […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says government has failed to take timely action and implement alternative plans to ensure that HIV/AIDS programmes and treatment do not collapse. Health activists, led by the founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, Zackie Achmat, disrupted a Parliamentary sitting of the portfolio committee on Health yesterday. The FF Plus’ Philip […]
# Die MK-party beweer die brand by die Tembisa-Hospitaal in Ekurhuleni is ‘n doelbewuste poging om bewyse wat die korrupsieskandaal van 2,3-miljard-rand aan die lig sou bring, te vernietig. Die korrupsie is aanvanklik deur fluitjieblaser Babita Deokaran ontbloot. Die party sê die brand was op sleutelrekords gemik net toe die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid op die spoor […]
# The MK Party condemns the Tembisa Hospital fire in Ekurhuleni, calling it a deliberate attempt to destroy evidence in the 2.3-billion-rand corruption scandal, first exposed by whistleblower Babita Deokaran. The party says the fire targeted key records just as the Special Investigating Unit was closing in on a corrupt network within the health sector. […]
# Die African Transformation Movement sê hy is woedend oor die katastrofiese wanbestuur van Suid-Afrika se ekonomie wat beklemtoon word deur ʼn kommerwekkende styging in werkloosheid. Die land se werkloosheidsyfer het in vanjaar se eerste kwartaal tot 32,9-persent geklim vanaf die 31,9-persent in die vierde kwartaal van 2024. ATM-woordvoerder Zama Ntshona sê hoë werkloosheidsvlakke en […]
# ʼn Kaliforniese regter het Erik en Lyle Menendez se vonnis na 50 jaar tronkstraf verander vir die moord in 1989 op hul ouers, en hulle kom nou in aanmerking vir parool. Die broers het erken hulle het Kitty en Jose Menendez vermoor, maar aangevoer dit was uit selfverdediging ná jare lange mishandeling. Hulle is […]
# Die sekretaris-generaal van die ANC, Fikile Mbalula sê die wanvoorstelling van die Onteieningswet bewys dat die begunstigdes van apartheid nie sal berus nie. Hy het dié opmerkings gemaak in sy hoofrede op die ANC se Duma Nokwe-gedenklesing Dinsdag in die Sedibeng-munisipaliteit in Gauteng. Die DA betwis die wet in die hof en sê dit […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Tshwane sê hy ondersteun die voorstel dat kontrakteurs wat nie aan die vereiste standaarde voldoen nie, op ʼn swartlys geplaas word. Dit sluit kontrakteurs in wat lieg oor hul vermoëns, verkrygingsprosesse manipuleer of nie projekte voltooi nie. Roche Grobler van die VF Plus sê die metroraad het die voorstel eenparig […]
# The African Transformation Movement says it is outraged at the catastrophic mismanagement of South Africa’s economy, underscored by an alarming rise in unemployment. The country’s unemployment rate has increased to 32.9-percent in the first quarter of this year from 31.9-percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. ATM’s spokesperson, Zama Ntshona, says high levels of […]
