# The MK Party says it will be writing to the National Assembly speaker, Thoko Didiza, to request a parliamentary debate on tuberculosis. South Africa is among 30 countries that account for 87-percent of the global TB burden. It is also among the ten countries battling the triple burden of TB, HIV and TB co-infection. […]
# The International Documentary Association is demanding the immediate release of the Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal. He was reportedly beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by soldiers. His whereabouts are unknown. Five American activists from the Centre for Jewish Nonviolence who […]
# Tennis: World number one Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus is also through to the quarterfinals of the Miami Open, after a 6-4, 6-4, win over defending champion American Danielle Collins. Unseeded Poland’s Magda Linette knocked out world number three Coco Gauff of the US, 6-4 6-4. Italy’s Jasmine Paolini came from a set down to beat […]
# Die GOOD party het die DA van skynheiligheid beskuldig oor die bywerking van Tshwane se eiendomswaardering. Die party sê die voormalige burgemeester en DA-leier, Cilliers Brink, het die proses verlede jaar ondersteun, met verwysing na onreëlmatighede in eiendomsbelasting, maar is nou gekant daarteen. Sarah Mabotsa van GOOD doen ‘n beroep op eiendomseienaars om hul […]
# The GOOD Party has accused the DA of hypocrisy over the update of Tshwane’s property valuation roll. The party says former mayor and DA leader Cilliers Brink supported the update last year, citing discrepancies in property rates, but now opposes it. GOOD’s Sarah Mabotsa urges property owners to check their valuations and dispute any […]
# Transnet en georganiseerde arbeid se loononderhandelings vir 2025/2026 hervat hierdie week na ʼn afkoeltydperk van twee weke. Die vakbonde Satawu en UNTU het Transnet se aanbod van ʼn verhoging bo inflasie verwerp wat 16-persent oor die volgende drie jaar beteken, met ʼn loonverhoging van 5,5-persent in die 2025/2026-boekjaar. Satawu stel ʼn algehele verhoging voor […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se agentskap vir Palestynse vlugtelinge, UNRWA, sê die streng Israelse blokkade van humanitêre voorrade kan ʼn hongerkrisis in Gaza veroorsaak. Meer as 50-duisend Palestyne is volgens berigte dood sedert Israel se militêre aanval ná die slagting op 7 Oktober 2023 begin het. Israel het verlede week sy veldtog in Gaza hervat […]
# Die ANC in Tshwane sê hy is teleurgesteld in die DA- en Vryheidsfront Plus-raadslede op die Komitee vir Finansies wat uitgestap het oor bewerings dat die lede nie hul verslae betyds ontvang het nie, wat volgens die ANC onwaar is. Joel Masilela van die ANC sê terwyl Jacqui Uys van die DA op die […]
# Die Activists and Citizens Forum sê president Cyril Ramaphosa moet oorweeg om die gewese minister van Toerisme, Lindiwe Sisulu, as Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur na Amerika te stuur. Dit volg nadat Ebrahim Rasool, wat in Desember as die land se ambassadeur in Washington aangestel is, verlede week uit Amerika verban en as ongewensde persoon verklaar […]
