# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has reaffirmed that there is no xenophobia in South Africa, emphasising that the country is not anti-foreigners. This comes as anti-immigration groups are calling for the strict enforcement of immigration laws and mass deportations. Over the past two financial years, deportations have surged by a cumulative 46-percent in the country, […]
# Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, sê die party sal alles moontlik doen om nie weer in koalisies te regeer nie. Die munisipale verkiesing vind op 4 November plaas, en die ANC het slegs in twee van die land se agt metro’s ʼn volstrekte meerderheid. Mbalula sê die ANC se krag op voetsoolvlak om […]
# Oekraïne se president, Volodimir Zelensky, het ‘n skietstaking met Rusland aangekondig vir Donderdag en Vrydag sodat Moskou sy oorwinning oor Nazi-Duitsland tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog kan vier. Dit word jaarliks herdenk met ‘n Weermagparade op die Rooi Plein. Oekraïne het Rusland al telkens daarvan beskuldig dat hy vorige tydelike skietstilstande geskend het. Zelensky het […]
# ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the party will do everything in its power to ensure that they don’t return to governing in coalitions. The party heads into the local government elections on the 4th of November, governing with a majority in only two of the country’s eight metros. Mbalula says the ANC’s strength on […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Staatsdiens en Administrasie het kommer uitgespreek oor honderde staatsamptenare wat met volle betaling geskors bly en die staat sowat 800-miljoen-rand per jaar kos. Volgens ʼn verslag van die Staatsdienskommissie is 674 provinsiale en nasionale amptenare tans geskors, waarvan 516 langer as die voorgeskrewe 90 dae geskors is. Die komiteevoorsitter, Jan […]
# Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has announced a two-day ceasefire with Russia from Friday to Saturday. This is to allow Moscow to commemorate World War Two Victory Day, its victory against Nazi Germany in 1945. Each year, the event is marked with a military parade through Red Square. Kyiv has repeatedly called for a full […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Public Service and Administration has expressed concern that hundreds of public servants remain suspended with full pay, costing the state about 800-million-rand a year. According to a report by the Public Service Commission, 674 provincial and national officials are currently suspended, 516 of them for longer than the legally prescribed […]
# Golf: Italian Andrea Pavan hopes to return to the course eventually after sustaining multiple injuries in a freak accident in South Africa in February. He arrived in Stellenbosch to participate in the South African Open, but fell three storeys down a lift shaft the day before. The 36-year-old had major surgery and was forced […]
# The Competition Commission has referred MultiChoice and Altech UEC to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution over alleged anti-competitive conduct. The commission claims the two companies entered into an agreement in 2014 linked to the supply of set-top boxes for pay-TV services, where Altech allegedly agreed not to compete in certain markets. It’s asking the […]
