Day: February 8, 2025
News24 | OPINION | Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday stopping aid to South Africa. The only substantial aid we get from the US is health funding, including 17% of our HIV programme.
Continue ReadingNews24 | United States ready to welcome ‘persecuted South African farmers’
The United States is ready to resettle "persecuted South African farmers," a State Department spokesperson said Saturday, after Washington froze aid to the country over a law President Donald Trump alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Money questions? Answered | Can you consolidate credit insurance?
Is it possible to take one cover for all your debt rather than having a policy with each credit provider? Maya Fisher-French explains.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘The assertion that Afrikaners need to flee the country of their birth’ is false, says Presidency
Speaking through his spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, President Cyril Ramaphosa reminded his counterpart in the US, Donald Trump, that South Africa was a constitutional democracy.
Continue ReadingNews24 | 13 people die in horrific Limpopo crash
At least 13 people were burnt beyond recognition following a crash between a bakkie and a minibus taxi on the R40 route near Kapama in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, on Saturday morning.
Continue ReadingNews24 | WATCH | ‘We are going nowhere’: Solidarity, AfriForum blame ANC for Trump order
The Solidarity Movement, of which AfriForum is part, will again head to the US later this month – this time to "put the situation in South Africa in context" with White House representatives.
Continue ReadingNews24 | This life with Nthabi Nhlapo | Naked on the red carpet: Expression or Hollywood’s objectification?
The nudity incident involving Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori has pushed Hollywood to a new low in terms of what celebrities will do for a few seconds of attention, writes Nthabi Nhlapo.
Continue ReadingNews24 | OPINION | Sigrid Kite-Banks: Rural areas need these health workers. So does NHI
Community health workers — also known as ooNomakhaya in isiXhosa — fill a major gap in healthcare in hard-to-reach places. Which is why National Health Insurance needs to make sure they are part of the plan, writes Bulungula Incubator’s Sigrid Kite-Banks.
Continue ReadingNews24 | It would be a ‘challenge’ for South Africans to qualify as refugees in US, says lawyer
Afrikaner landowners cannot be placed in the same category as those seeking asylum from countries like Somalia, Sudan and Syria as there is no evidence of them being persecuted, a top human rights lawyer argues.
Continue ReadingNews24 | We don’t know where Trump ‘gets his information’, says AgriSA on alleged ‘large-scale land grabs’
AgriSA has strongly dismissed allegations that there are "large-scale" land grabs occurring in South Africa and questioned the source of the information provided to US President Donald Trump.
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