President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa will continue to participate as a full member of the G20, despite US President Donald Trump announcing overnight that he will not invite Ramaphosa to attend next year’s gathering in Miami, Florida. In a post on Truth Social late yesterday, Trump blasted South Africa for failing to formally hand over the G20 Presidency to the US at the end of the Leaders’ Summit. The handover was only
US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his unfounded views on South Africa, and in an angry note on social media, said that South Africa, a founding member of the G20, will not be invited to the next gathering in Miami, Florida, next year. Trump refused to attend the G20 in Johannesburg, and he also refused to send anyone from his government, although American business did attend the B20. In a
The City of Cape Town’s Urban Mobility Directorate has applied for an urgent court interdict against a group accused of attempting to remove a legally appointed security company at the newly built MyCiTi depots along Spine Road between Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain. The City claims the group forcibly removed the official security service from the site on Monday and threatened to disrupt operations or damage property if their demands were not met.
Pet lovers in Lavender Hill are urged to take part in a mass animal sterilisation drive offered by the Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), Paws-A-While, and Aid 4 Animals in Distress. The two day drive, starting today, will be hosted at the Levana Primary School, and aims to sterilise 100 animals, addressing the critical issue of pet overpopulation in the area. The initiative also
South Africa’s government took an unprecedented step last week by officially classifying gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) as a national disaster, placing it in the same category as major floods, fires or disease outbreaks. It came on the eve of the nationwide G20 Women’s Shutdown, which saw scores of people across the country come together to protest the scourge. The announcement was made by Dr Elias Sithole, head of the National Disaster
