An aerial view of a township and wealthy suburb in South Africa. fivepointsix/GettyImages Fri 16 August 2024: South Africa has exceptionally high levels of inequality. As someone who studies issues of inequality and sustainability, I have argued before that South Africa’s income inequality is the highest of all countries that have data on this. This means that the gap between […]
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Fri 16 August 2024: Cape Town – A proposed six-story development on Buitengracht Street in the heart of Cape Town’s historic, vibrant and colourful Bo Kaap has ignited fierce opposition. Local residents and activist groups have strongly challenged the plan to construct a hotel and restaurant in this culturally rich neighbourhood. They believe the project will […]
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Salaamedia Twitter. Thu 15 August 2024: The ground is grumbling beneath Winnie Madikizela-Mandela House, the headquarters of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. Floyd Shivambu’s departure could mark the beginning of a shake up in the party that has been dominated by Julius Malema since inception. In a press briefing at the party’s headquarters […]
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A sign on the road near Gao in Northern Mali, reads ‘Welcome to the Islamic state of Gao’. Communities have been fleeing the area due to violence from armed groups [File: Jerome Delay/AP] Mon 12 August 2024: Women and girls fleeing armed groups in Mali say they have suffered sexual assault by Malian soldiers […]
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Mon 12 August 2024: Twenty-eight year-old Mia Le Roux has won the Miss South Africa title at glitzy event held at the Sun Bet Arena in Pretoria. According to the Miss South Africa website, Le Roux she was born in Sasolburg, Free State and raised in Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape. “She is a marketing […]
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Sun 11 August 2024: Delegations from Ethiopia and Somalia will meet in Türkiye on Monday as part of efforts, dubbed the Ankara Process, to ease tensions between the two Horn of Africa nations. Following a visit to Ethiopia by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and subsequent contacts with the Somali side, the two delegations will […]
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Sun 11 August 2024: A military court in Sierra Leone convicted 24 military personnel in relation to last year’s failed coup in the West African country, local media reported Saturday. The president of the Court Martial, Capt. Lawrence Jabati, read the guilty verdict late on Friday, saying the court “unanimously found the 24 accused persons […]
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Sat 10 August 2024: Any visitor or volunteer paying to play, bottle feed or pet lions bred in captivity is fuelling a cruel lion breeding – and killing – industry, conservation groups say. Walking with lions, petting and playing with cubs, bottle feeding the harmless little things, is the thrill that lion farms offer, but […]
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Fri 09 August 2024: Bamako has cut ties with Kyiv, accusing it of complicity in an attack that killed Malian soldiers and Russian Wagner troops. A row between unlikely sparring partners. This week, Mali announced it was severing ties with Ukraine, after accusing Kyiv of having a hand in a devastating ambush in the West […]
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Thu 08 August 2024: Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has established a rapid response team to deal with all current outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). This follows a Disease Management Area (DMA) declaration gazetted by the Minister last week to prevent the spread of the disease through the movement of cattle, sheep, goats, and products derived […]
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