# The DA says South Africa’s post-school funding system is under severe and growing strain, with universities and Technical and Vocational Education and Training colleges facing 62-billion-rand student debt. Universities alone carry approximately 59-billion-rand in student debt, including around 29-billion-rand linked to NSFAS-funded students. The DA’s Delmaine Christians says the solution to the student debt crisis […]
# The ANC Greater Joburg Region says the City of Johannesburg’s 97.1-billion-rand budget for the 2026/2027 financial year represents a bold and decisive intervention aimed at restoring the metro. The budget is up from the 89-billion-rand in the previous year. The ANC says it supports measures aimed at strengthening governance, improving revenue collection, reducing electricity […]
# The EFF is demanding that National Assembly speaker, Thoko Didiza, opposes president Cyril Ramaphosa’s application to set aside the Section 89 independent panel report into Phala Phala. On Tuesday, the president filed his papers in the Western Cape High Court for the review of the report. The panel found that there is prima facie […]
# UK spy agency GCHQ director, Anne Keast-Butler, says Britain is at a moment of consequence, with the country facing increasingly brazen behaviour from hostile nations, including Russia. She revealed her office’s annual threat assessment, saying they are helping to counter reckless sabotage and assassination attempts by the Kremlin. Keast-Butler says Putin is going backwards […]
# Cricket: Teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi powered the Rajasthan Royals to a 47-run victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League eliminator match. Fifteen-year-old Sooryavanshi scored 97 off just 29 balls as the Royals posted 243 for eight in their 20 overs. In reply, Jofra Archer claimed three wickets as Sunrisers were bowled out […]
# Die regering sê Statistiek Suid-Afrika se 2025 Algemene Huishouding-opname toon aansienlike vordering in toegang tot formele behuising, elektrisiteit, water, sanitasie en digitale kommunikasie. Die opname wat sedert 2002 jaarliks gedoen word, volg vordering met ontwikkeling en lig voortslepende diensleweringsgapings in Suid-Afrika uit. Die regering se waarnemende woordvoerder, Nomonde Mnukwa, sê formele wonings het tot […]
# Die DA sê die bevindinge van die jongste Algemene Huishoudelike Opname beklemtoon die groeiende uitdagings waarmee baie Suid-Afrikaners te kampe het, veral in ANC-beheerde provinsies en munisipaliteite. Op nasionale vlak rapporteer 22-persent van huishoudings nou onvoldoende of ‘n ernstige gebrek aan voedsel, teenoor 17,8-persent in 2019. Jan de Villiers van die DA sê voedselonsekerheid, […]
# Een-en-dertig mense is Dinsdag in Israeliese lugaanvalle in Libanon dood, na eerste minister Benjamin Netanyahu se belofte om militêre optrede teen Hezbollah te verskerp. Veertig mense is gewond, insluitend kinders en vroue. Dit is een van die dodelikste aanvalle sedert die wapenstilstand wat deur die VSA bemiddel is, middel April begin het. Die Israeliese […]
# Tennis: Die eerste-gekeurde Jannik Sinner het sy veldtog vir ‘n eerste Franse Ope-titel begin met ‘n oorwinning in skoon stelle oor die plaaslike promotorskeuse Clement Tabur. Die Italianer hoop om ‘n loopbaan-Grand Slam te voltooi. Die Australiër Adam Walton het die sesde-gekeurde Rus Daniil Medvedev in vyf stelle uitgeskakel. In die vroue-afdeling het die […]
