# The DA has condemned the delay in releasing January to March crime statistics, now seven weeks overdue. DA Police spokesperson Lisa Schickerling says the lack of data hampers stations’ ability to plan and allocate resources, especially ahead of the festive season. She says the DA will write to acting Police minister, Firoz Cachalia, demanding […]
# Venezuela het duisende soldate naby die Colombiaanse grens ontplooi na aanleiding van die Amerikaanse militêre opbou in die Karibiese See. Amerikaanse media berig ook oor ‘n nuwe aanval op ‘n beweerde dwelmsmokkelboot. Die Verenigde State het verskeie militêre vaartuie na die gebied gestuur en die afgelope weke ‘n reeks dodelike aanvalle op bote geloods. […]
# 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, […]
