# 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 […]
# American music legend Lionel Richie has reportedly checked himself into a hospital out of an abundance of caution following a performance in St Louis over the weekend. The 77-year-old Grammy winner experienced dizziness and dehydration during his concert. Richie’s hospitalisation comes more than two months after he experienced dizziness onstage during the opening night […]
# Die Madlanga-kommissie, wat misdaad, korrupsie en politieke inmenging in die strafregstelsel ondersoek, sal van Donderdag verdaag tot 11 September. Openbare verhore sal hierdie week op Woensdag eindig en op 14 September hervat. Die sewe werksdae is nodig om twee kommissarisse toe te laat om vorige verpligtinge na te kom. Jeremy Michaels van die kommissie […]
# The Madlanga commission, investigating criminality, corruption, and political interference in the criminal justice system, will go into recess from Thursday until 11 September. Public hearings will end this week on Wednesday and resume on 14 September. The seven-working-day break is needed to allow two commissioners to honour prior commitments. The commission’s Jeremy Michaels says […]
# Airlink verdedig sy formasievlugte oor die Kaapstadse stadion voor Saterdag se tweede toets tussen die Springbokke en die All Blacks. Die lugdiens sê geen lugvaart-veiligheidsregulasies is oortree nie, ondanks kommer op sosiale media omdat die vliegtuie buitengewoon laag gevlieg het. Airlink sê die verbyvlug het deeglike beplanning en oefening vereis onder toesig van die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa en die voorsitter van Eskom se raad, Mteto Nyati, het vergader om Suid-Afrika se verbintenis tot energiehervorming te herbevestig. Hervormings is noodsaaklik om bekostigbare, betroubare en volhoubare elektrisiteitsvoorsiening te verseker. Nyati het vroeër gewaarsku regeringsplanne oor eienaarskap van Eskom kan die onderneming se finansies benadeel en beleggers afskrik. Woordvoerder Vincent Magwenya […]
# Airlink has defended its formation flyover over Cape Town Stadium before Saturday’s second Test between the Springboks and the All Blacks. It says no aviation safety regulations were breached, despite social media concerns that the aircraft appeared to fly unusually low. Airlink says the flypast required careful planning and rehearsals under guidance from the […]
# DA-leier Geordin Hill-Lewis kritiseer president Cyril Ramaphosa oor sy uitlating in die ANC se verkiesingsmanifes dat ANC-bestuurde munisipaliteite ‘n voordeel inhou omdat burgemeesters hulle tot kamerade in die nasionale regering kan wend. Hy sê dit strook nie met die werklikheid of die gees van die regering van nasionale eenheid nie. Hill-Lewis sê Ramaphosa vra […]
