Two years of suffering, fear and uncertainty. That is how the families of the South African engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham described their incarceration in Equitorial Guinea. Sunday marked two years since the men were unlawfully detained in the Central African country. Their families have now renewed calls to the governments of South Africa and the United Kingdom to intensify efforts to bring the men home. A petition calling for their
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a legal challenge against the recently signed Expropriation Act, arguing that the law is unconstitutional and grants the government excessive powers to expropriate property without compensation. The party confirmed on Monday that it had filed papers in the Western Cape High Court on February 7, seeking to have the legislation nullified in its entirety. This is expected to cause renewed tensions within the Government of National
MI Cape Town stormed to their first-ever Betway SA20 title in emphatic fashion on Saturday, thanks to a stellar bowling performance led by Kagiso Rabada at a packed Wanderers Stadium. Rabada rose to the occasion, delivering a match-winning spell of 4/25 as Sunrisers Eastern Cape crumbled to 105 all out in response to MI Cape Town’s formidable 181/8 – the second-highest total ever recorded in a Betway SA20 Final. Adding to his
The Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen was in apple country on Monday, where he witnessed the first shipment of apples from South Africa to Thailand in over 16 years. Steenhuisen visited the Bella Frutta Packhouse in Ceres, which is one of the biggest apple-producing towns in the Western Cape. The apple export market to the Kingdom of Thailand had been closed to SA from January 2008 to December 2024 due to changes
United States 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. The order is based on a misleading characterisation of the political situation in South Africa. It states that the recently enacted Expropriation Act enables the government to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation” and that this act
