# South Africa’s economy grew by just 0.1-percent in the first three months of the year. The agricultural sector was the main driver, growing by nearly 16-percent thanks to good rains, which helped avoid a contraction in gross domestic product. However, mining and manufacturing dragged the economy down, with declines in key products like platinum […]
# Sadtu has welcomed the 200-thousand young people who started working as education assistants and general school assistants in public schools across the country. According to Sadtu’s spokesperson, Nomusa Cembi, this forms part of the Basic Education Employment Initiative, a flagship programme of the Presidential Employment Stimulus. She says the return of the programme will once […]
# The White House says US President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping will likely hold a long-awaited call later this week, as trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies ratchet back up. Trump reignited strains with China last week when he accused the world’s second-biggest economy of violating a deal that had […]
# Krieket: Die Protea-kolwer Heinrich Klaasen het uitgetree uit alle formate van internasionale krieket. Dis ‘n groot slag vir Suid-Afrika, mede-gasheer vir die 2027 Wêreldbeker, waar hy waarskynlik ‘n groot trekpleister sou wees. Die 33-jarige Klaasen is een van die wêreld se mees vernietigende kolwers in witbalkrieket. Hy sê die besluit maak dit vir hom […]
# ActionSA sê die Grondwet moet gewysig word om onwettige immigrante se misbruik van openbare dienste stop te sit. Die party het voorgestelde veranderings ingedien om toegang tot behuising, gesondheidsorg en onderwys te beperk tot slegs burgers en wettige inwoners. Die party vra ook die hersiening van die frase ‘Suid-Afrika behoort aan almal wat daarin […]
# Iran vra vir waarborge dat die Verenigde State sanksies sal laat vaar as ‘n voorwaarde vir ‘n kernooreenkoms, nadat die Withuis na bewering ‘n voorstel gestuur het wat vir Iran aanvaarbaar is. Iran en die VSA voer sedert April gesprek oor Teheran se kernprogram, en Washington se voorstel vir ‘n ooreenkoms volg nadat ‘n […]
# Die adjunkminister in die Presidensie, Nonceba Mhlauli, sê die regering se jeugwerkverskaffingsprogram maak bestendige vordering. Sy het tydens ‘n mediakonferensie gesê dat meer as 76-duisend inkomstegeleenthede tussen Januarie en Maart vanjaar geskep is, wat die totaal op meer as 1,67-miljoen te staan bring sedert die program begin is. Volgens Mhlauli is meer as 4,7-miljoen […]
# Cricket: Proteas batter Heinrich Klaasen has retired from all forms of international cricket. This is a blow for the country ahead of co-hosting the 2027 World Cup where he would have been a major draw card. Thirty-three-year-old Klaasen is one of the world’s most destructive batters in white-ball cricket. He is likely to maintain […]
# Iran wants guarantees from the United States that it will drop sanctions as a condition for a nuclear deal, after the White House reportedly sent a proposal it deemed acceptable. With Iran and the US engaged in talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme since April, Washington’s proposal for a deal came after a leaked UN […]
