# 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 […]
# Die minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë, Solly Malatsi, het bevestig daar is bestendige vordering met die ontwikkeling van die SABC se nuwe befondsingsmodel. Die proses, gelei deur die tegnologie-firma BMIT, sluit voortgesette betrokkenheid van belanghebbendes in om die openbare uitsaaier se finansiële raamwerk te vorm. Malatsi het aan SABC News gesê die werk […]
# Statistics South Africa says the number of civil summonses for debt fell by 7.4-percent in the three months ending August compared with the same period last year. Civil judgments recorded dropped by 8.7-percent compared with the same period the previous year. Stats SA’s Onica Mushwana says the data shows fewer debt cases are being […]
# DRDGold reports a stable start to the 2026 financial year. Revenue rose slightly by two-percent to over two-billion-rand, helped by a high gold price and increased gold sales. Gold production grew by two-percent despite processing slightly less ore. Operating costs were largely steady, while all-in sustaining costs increased five-percent due to higher labour and […]
