Today, SAYAGA met with H.E Ambassador @SandraKramerEU to bid our farewell as she finishes her term as Ambassador of the @EUinSA EU Delegation to RSA. We wish her all the best, and the EU is and will always be a predictable and reliable partner 🇿🇦🇪🇺 @eu_eeas
🚨 Erling Haaland refuses to throw Sørloth under the bus after Norway's defeat to England. 🇳🇴
🗣️ Erling Haaland:
Alexander Sørloth is a great player and, more importantly, a very good friend of mine. Football is a game of decisions, and sometimes you make the right one, sometimes you don't.
People watching from home have time to slow everything down and analyse every angle, but on the pitch you have a split second to make a decision. That's football.
I'll never blame him for that moment because we've all been in those situations. Every player has made a decision they wish they could take back.
I'm proud of what we've achieved as a team. Reaching the World Cup quarter-finals was something very few people believed we could do before the tournament started.
We gave our country something to be proud of. We fought for every badge, every shirt and every supporter who believed in us.
Losing to England wasn't because of one pass or one missed opportunity. We created chances throughout the game. We had moments where we could have scored, and they had moments where they punished us.
That's football. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you never point fingers at one teammate. We win together, and we lose together.
I'll always stand by Alexander, just as I know he'd stand by me. That's what being teammates is all about.
We leave this tournament disappointed, but also proud. This is only the beginning for Norway, and we'll come back stronger.
BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran.
Key terms include:
1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon
2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs
3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended
4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days
5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge
6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development
7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions
8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision
9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces
10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services
11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use
12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal
13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations
14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution
The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.
Growing up in South Africa, coding always felt like it belonged to someone else's language.
So I built my own.
Introducing CMT-IsiZulu — write Python code in isiZulu South African can now write codes in their home language
🇿🇦 Sikhona. We exist.
https://t.co/yPjDg6rN08
Pleased to visit Chinese-operated shops and resturant serving the local communities and job creation in Pretoria. I encourage all Chinese businesses in SA to operate in full compliance, employ lawfully, enhance security and strive to deliver more benefit to South African communities.
This week, the Bank of Namibia and Banco de Moçambique signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to reaffirm their longstanding relationship and commitment to advancing central banking excellence in the southern African region. The signing took place on the margins of the Committee of Central Bank Governors (CCBG) Meetings, hosted by the Bank of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The MoU provides a framework for the two central banks to enhance collaboration in areas of mutual interest. These areas include digital transformation and innovation, payment systems modernisation, fintech, financial stability, monetary policy and macroprudential oversight, climate risk, governance, capacity building and currency museums.
The signing builds on a bilateral discussion held in September 2025 during the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (@NewsAFI) Global Policy Forum (GPF) in Swakopmund, Namibia, where discussions between the two central banks highlighted a shared commitment to knowledge exchange, capacity development and institutional excellence.
During the signing ceremony, the Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Mr Ebson Uanguta, noted that Africa's most enduring progress is achieved through cooperation and mutual learning. He emphasised that strong institutions are built not only through expertise and innovation, but also through a willingness to learn from one another. He further highlighted that while the Bank of Namibia's Currency Museum Project provided the initial motive for the engagement between the two institutions, the MoU creates broader opportunities for collaboration across a wide spectrum of central banking functions.
The two institutions will strengthen their capabilities through staff exchanges, secondments, joint research projects and other forms of technical cooperation and assistance with the aim to effectively respond to the changing financial and economic landscape.
This partnership is underpinned by a shared vision of building resilient, innovative and future-ready central banks that contribute to the sustainable economic development and financial stability of the region and the broader African continent.