# The EFF has submitted an urgent appeal to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry chairperson, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, raising concerns over venue cost management. The commission has been tasked with investigating corruption in the criminal justice system. The EFF says its concern arises from the costly precedent set by the State Capture Inquiry, which cost […]
# The DA in the Western Cape has reiterated its call for an urgent reform of the national housing funding model, which currently lacks the long-term certainty necessary for effective infrastructure planning. The party’s Dirk Wessels says a prime example is the Greenhaven housing development project. He says the project calls for approximately one-thousand housing units […]
# Tourism deputy minister, Maggie Sotyu, says women are essential drivers of the tourism industry, not only as employees and entrepreneurs but also as cultural stewards and agents of change. She launched the Atrium Boutique Hotel in Limpopo yesterday, which has a 100-percent black ownership and 60-percent women’s ownership. Sotyu says it is important to […]
# Rugby: Australië se skrapping van die sogenaamde Giteau-reël gee die Wallabies se afrigter, Joe Schmidt, die kans om sy groep vir die Rugbykampioenskap te versterk met oorsese spelers. Die reël het die gebruik van oorsese Wallabies verbied wat nie 60 toetse gespeel het nie. Peter Horne van Rugby Australië sê hulle sal steeds plaaslike […]
# Rugby: Australia’s scrapping of the so-called ‘Giteau Law’ has opened the door for Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt to strengthen his squad for the Rugby Championship with overseas-based players. The law prohibited the use of overseas-based Wallabies who haven’t played 60 Tests. Rugby Australia’s Peter Horne says they will still select locally-based players if they […]
# Hirosjima se burgemeester, Kazumi Matsui, waarsku die Kernsperverdrag is op die rand van ineenstorting. Dis vandag 80 jaar sedert Amerika se atoombom op Hirosjima in Japan, waarin meer as 200-duisend mense dood is. Meer as 70 lande het die verdrag onderteken wat die verspreiding van kernwapens beperk en die vreedsame gebruik van kernenergie aanmoedig. Amerika […]
# Die medevoorsitter van die Parlement se gesamentlike staande komitee oor Verdediging, Malusi Gigaba, ontken bewerings dat hy die minister van Verdediging en Militêre Veterane, Angie Motshekga, teen verantwoordbaarheid beskerm. Die DA beweer die minister word daarteen beskerm om rekenskap te gee oor die ontplooiingsramp in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo, en die vermiste 813-miljoen-rand […]
# Olimpiese Spele: President Donald Trump van Amerika het ʼn uitvoerende bevel onderteken om ʼn Withuis-taakspan saam te stel vir die 2028 Olimpiese Spele in Los Angeles. Volgens die bevel moet die taakspan sekerheid en beplanning vir die Spele koördineer, en die visumproses en sertifisering vir atlete, afrigters, die media en ander besoekers vereenvoudig. Trump, […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking is bekommerd oor die onlangse aankoms van gevaarlike misdadigers van verskillende nasionaliteite vanuit die VSA na Eswatini. Eswatini het verlede maand aangekondig dat hulle met die VSA ooreengekom het om vyf van die gevaarlikste misdadigers in hul gevangenisse te huisves, met die moontlikheid dat nog meer as […]
