# Suspended Public Investment Corporation CEO Patrick Dlamini has launched an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria to challenge his precautionary suspension. Dlamini argues the PIC board acted unlawfully by suspending him without properly considering the decision, and he learnt of his suspension through media reports. His suspension last week follows an anonymous […]
# A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture earlier today, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall. The epicentre was about 20 kilometres south of central Kyushu island’s largest city, Kumamoto, with a population of around 700-thousand people. […]
# The Institute of Race Relations says South Africa’s infrastructure failures are a major cause of the country’s weak economic growth. In a new report, economic policy analyst Anlu Keeve says unreliable water, electricity, rail, and port services are discouraging investment, raising business costs, and reducing tax revenue. The report argues that policy failures, poor […]
# The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation says innovation will be central to achieving industrialisation across the Southern African Development Community. Speaking to the SABC on the sidelines of the SADC’s Industrialisation Week in KwaZulu-Natal, Director-General Mlungisi Cele said science, technology and industrialisation must advance together. He emphasised investment in research, mathematics and science […]
# Tennis: Die Kanadese Ope is weer sonder top-spelers nadat talle aan volgende maand se toernooi onttrek het. Die wêreld-nommer-een, Jannik Sinner van Italië, en nommer-drie, Carlos Alcaraz van Spanje, gaan weer nie na Montreal reis nie. Ander spelers soos Jack Draper van Brittanje en Holger Rune van Denemarke gaan ook afwesig wees. Nommer-een, Aryna […]
# Tennis: The Canadian Open is bleeding top players again, with many having withdrawn from next month’s tournament. World number one, Jannik Sinner of Italy, and number three, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, will again not travel to Montreal while other players such as Britain’s Jack Draper and Denmark’s Holger Rune will also be absent. Number […]
# Die onderwysaktivis, Hendrick Makaneta, het die bevestiging van datums vir die opening van die 2027- aanlyn aansoektyd vir Graad 1- en Graad 8-leerders verwelkom. Die LUR vir Onderwys, Sport, Kuns, Kultuur en Ontspanning, Lebogang Maile, het aangekondig dat aansoeke volgende Woensdag open en op die vierde September sal sluit. Makaneta het ouers aangespoor om […]
# Education activist, Hendrick Makaneta, has welcomed the confirmation of dates for the opening of the 2027 Gauteng online application period for Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners. MEC for Education, Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, Lebogang Maile, announced that applications will open next Wednesday and close on the fourth of September. Makaneta has urged parents […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het Infrastruktuur Suid-Afrika se Projekvoorbereidings-bodvenster Drie van stapel gestuur om groot infrastruktuurprojekte te bespoedig. Die inisiatief sal openbare instellings ondersteun in die ontwikkeling van projekte wat gereed is vir beleggings ter waarde van een-miljard-rand of meer. Macpherson sê swak projekvoorbereiding vertraag dikwels konstruksie en belegging. […]
