# The DA is calling for all border safeguarding functions to be transferred to the Border Management Authority, and for the BMA to be adequately funded, to make a clean break with established syndicates once and for all. The DA’s Chris Hattingh says this follows the arrest of five SANDF members and two Zimbabweans for allegedly smuggling illicit cigarettes […]
# Die Sweedse tennislegende Björn Borg het onderneem om sy gesondheidsuitdaging soos ‘n Wimbledon-eindstryd te benader. Hy het vyf Wimbledon- en ses Franse Ope-titels gewen voor hy in 1983 op 27 onverwags uitgetree het. Borg onthul in sy outobiografie, Heartbeats, dat hy teen uiters aggressiewe prostaatkanker veg. Hoewel dit in remissie is na ‘n operasie, […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, sê die taakspan vir politieke moorde het voortgegaan met sy werk selfs nadat die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, die ontbinding daarvan beveel het. Mkhwanazi het aan die Madlanga-kommissie in Pretoria gesê hoewel die span nooit ophou werk het nie, was daar minder lede om die werk te doen. […]
# Franse betogers veroorsaak vandag landwye ontwrigting oor president Emmanuel Macron se begrotingsbeleide. Massa-optogte word verwag, asook vervoerchaos en botsings tussen die polisie en betogers. Eerste minister Sebastien Lecornu het verlede week oorgeneem as Macron se sewende regeringshoof en verandering beloof teen die agtergrond van ‘n voortslepende politieke krisis. Vakbonde en linksgesindes is woedend oor […]
# KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the political killings task team continued operating even after Police minister Senzo Mchunu ordered it disbanded. Mkhwanazi told the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria that, although the team never stopped working, it operated with fewer members. Mkhwanazi confirmed he did not personally disband the unit, which carried on investigating […]
# Swedish tennis legend Björn Borg promised to fight his health scare like it’s a Wimbledon final. He won five Wimbledon and six French Open titles before abruptly retiring in 1983 at the age of 27. Borg reveals in his autobiography, Heartbeats, that he was battling extremely aggressive prostate cancer. Although it is in remission […]
# French protesters are staging a day of nationwide disruption over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with mass protests expected, transport chaos and clashes between police and demonstrators. Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Macron’s seventh head of government, took office last week, vowing a break from the past against the background of an ongoing political crisis. […]
# Die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, het die Madlanga-kommissie van Ondersoek meegedeel dat die strafregstelsel heeltemal kan verbrokkel as korrupsie en politieke inmenging nie aangespreek word nie. Mkhwanazi, wat eerste getuig, sê sy mediakonferensie van 6 Julie het die gesamentlike bekommernisse van polisiebeamptes oor sabotasie en wanpraktyke binne die stelsel weerspieël. Hy het ook […]
# Suid-Afrika sê hy sal plegtig boekhou van die bevindings van die Verenigde Nasies se onafhanklike internasionale kommissie van ondersoek na die besette Palestynse gebied, insluitend Oos-Jerusalem, en Israel. Die woordvoerder van die Departement Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Chrispin Phiri, sê die kommissie se verslag kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat Israelse owerhede en veiligheidsmagte voortgaan […]
