Author: staff
In terse responses to parliamentary questions about SA’s deployment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Defence Minister Angie Motshekga said the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) “equipment and supplies are sufficient and well-maintained”.
Little Joshlin Smith’s mother, Kelly, and her two co-accused pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and human trafficking involving the seven-year-old girl’s disappearance, in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay on Monday.
As the kidnapping trial of 7-year-old Joslin Smith’s mother, Kelly Smith, and her two co-accused, started in the Western Cape High Court, sitting in Saldanha Bay, on Monday, her father said he had braced himself for the evidence he would hear.
While declining inflation and interest rates are positive for households, the reverse is true for pensioners. Since the rate cuts started in September, pensioners have experienced a 9.3% reduction in their interest income, writes Maya Fisher-French.
When M* scrolled through her husband’s phone, looking for evidence of his drug use to explain what she considered erratic behaviour, she didn’t expect to find photos of herself, naked and unconscious with sexual acts being performed on her.
About 65% of Investec’s SA-based wealth and investment unit’s R300bn in assets is invested offshore, a sign its wealthy local client base wants to decouple from domestic risks. But the group says it’s still “constructive” on local equities and bonds.
Just weeks after the United States invited Afrikaners to become refugees, the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration has cut off funding to civil society organisations providing services to refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa.
A Pretoria-based group is calling for white South Africans to refrain from “victimhood” and is encouraging unity among black and white South Africans amid US President Donald Trump’s executive order offering to resettle Afrikaner refugees.
Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to reach the frontlines of a global moon race.
The Ukrainian Association of South Africa (UAZA) has called on all countries to take strong, decisive action to ensure Ukraine has ‘the military, economic, and diplomatic support needed to win the war against Russia to secure long-lasting peace’.