# Die Amerikaanse Kongres het ‘n verlenging van die Wet op Groei en Geleenthede in Afrika goedgekeur tot einde 2028. Dis in 2000 ingestel en bied kwalifiserende lande in Afrika suid van die Sahara, insluitend Suid-Afrika, belastingvrye toegang vir meer as een-duisend-800 produkte tot die Amerikaanse mark. Die Demokratiese kongreslid, Terri Sewell, sê AGOA versterk […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed the arrest of syndicate kingpin Joel Govindraju in connection with its probe of more than two-billion-rand looted through Tembisa Hospital tenders. He faces multiple charges arising from allegations of the procurement of medical supplies and equipment at the hospital. The SIU says the Govindraju Syndicate siphoned approximately 600-million-rand […]
# A report shows the glacier that collapsed and triggered the deadly flash floods in Nepal and Tibet last week, showed visible signs of instability days before the disaster. The death toll stands at over one-thousand-100, with some four-thousand people still missing. The report, compiled by a group of international scientists, states pre-event indications included […]
# The US Congress has passed an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act until the end of 2028. This followed Senate’s approval last month. AGOA was first enacted in 2000 to provide duty-free access to the US market for eligible Sub-Saharan countries, including South Africa, covering over one-thousand-800 products. Democratic Congresswoman Terri Sewell […]
# Die vakbond GIWUSA is erg bekommerd oor môre se brandstofprysverhogings. Die Departement van Minerale en Petroleumbronne het aangekondig die petrolprys styg om middernag met een rand-34 sent per liter. GIWUSA se president, Mametlwe Sebei, sê selfs erger is die gedifferensieerde groothandelprysverhogings van twee rand-94 sent en drie rand-15 sent per liter vir diesel, afhangend […]
# Die dodetal ná verlede week se verwoestende kits-oorstromings op die grens tussen Nepal en Tibet het meer as ‘n duisend bereik. Die getal vermistes is aangepas na drie-duisend-916, insluitend meer as 600 werkers wat vermoedelik in moddergevulde tonnels in hidrokragprojekte vasgekeer is. Minstens 16 mense is in die Chinees-beheerde Tibet dood en minstens 546 […]
# Die Amerikaanse musieklegende Lionel Richie het homself volgens berigte in ‘n hospitaal laat opneem as voorsorgmaatreël ná die naweek se optrede in St Louis. Die 77-jarige Grammy-wenner was tydens die konsert duiselig en ontwater. Dit volg meer as twee maande nadat Richie ook op die verhoog duiselig was tydens die openingsaand van sy toer […]
# The death toll from last week’s flash flooding disaster on the border between Nepal and Tibet has now topped one-thousand. The number of people missing has been revised to three-thousand-916, of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped inside mud-filled hydropower tunnels in Nepal. Over on the Chinese Tibet side, at […]
# Union GIWUSA is very concerned over tomorrow’s fuel price increases. The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources announced the petrol price will increase by one-rand-34-cent per litre from midnight. GIWUSA president Mametlwe Sebei says even more devastating are the differentiated wholesale diesel price increases of two-rand-94-cent and three-rand-15 -cents per litre, depending on the […]
