# Police minister Senzo Mchunu told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi threatened a fight back after receiving the letter disbanding the political killings task team and freezing crime intelligence appointments. Mchunu said Mkhwanazi expressed his anger through WhatsApp and via his chief of staff, Cedrick Nkabinde, demanding that the letter […]
# Russia says many questions needed resolving before Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump could meet, including who would be on each negotiating team. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will begin working on this. According to Peskov the meeting between Trump […]
# Venezuela deployed thousands of troops near the Colombian border in response to the US military buildup in the Caribbean. US media also reported a new strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat. The United States has sent several military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and launched a series of deadly naval strikes on boats in […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says freedom from hunger is both a moral and developmental imperative. Speaking at the seventh Social Justice Summit at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Social Justice, Ramaphosa emphasised that access to food and water is a constitutional right, placing a duty on the state to ensure its realisation. He emphasised that South […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the National Development Plan enshrines social justice as a right, not a privilege. However, progress toward achieving it and the UN Sustainable Development Goals is off track. Ramaphosa highlighted gaps between policy and practice, with rising food insecurity and malnutrition cases up 26-percent in five-years. He warned that global hunger […]
# Die UDM veroordeel waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, en die nasionale Polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, dat hulle nie Woensdag voor die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Polisie verskyn het nie. Die adjunkpresident van die UDM, Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, sê hul afwesigheid het die komitee gedwing om die vergadering uit te stel sonder om belangrike entiteite, insluitend die […]
# Die Parlement se portefeuljekomitee oor Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling het aanbeveel dat die proses om ‘n nuwe kommissaris vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Menseregtekommissie aan te stel, van voor af moet begin na prosedurele kwessies tot vertragings gelei het. Die vakature volg na die bedanking van die ondervoorsitter Fatima Chohan in April. Die komiteevoorsitter, Xola Nqola, […]
# The American president Donald Trump will welcome his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House later today for a meeting Ukraine had hoped would result in more military support. Zelensky has been pushing for Tomahawk missiles from the US, but during a two-hour call between Trump and Vladimir Putin yesterday, the Russian president […]
# Die adjunkpresident van die UDM, Nqabayomzi Kwankwa, doen ‘n beroep op die regering van nasionale eenheid om vertroue in wetstoepassing te herstel en ‘n nuwe nasionale misdaadvoorkomingsraamwerk te vestig. Volgens die Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing vertrou slegs 22-persent van Suid-Afrikaners steeds die polisie. Kwankwa sê dié syfer is nie net ‘n statistiek nie, dit is ‘n nasionale […]