Thu 14 March 2024: South Africa’s financial conduct regulator has approved 59 operating licences for crypto currency businesses. In 2022, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) declared crypto assets to be financial products and said they needed to be regulated to protect financial customers from risks and prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Regulating the […]
Continue Reading
Thu 14 March 2024: Deputy Minister of Finance, Dr David Masondo, has reiterated to his counterparts in the United States of America (USA) that government is working hard to get South Africa out of the grey list. “[We] are working together with [the] Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the United States as our important […]
Continue Reading
Thu 14 March 2024: South African police said Wednesday that they have arrested a suspect following the murder of three Egyptian nationals. The Coptic Orthodox Church of South Africa said Tuesday in a statement posted on social media that three members of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church were subjected to a criminal attack in the […]
Continue Reading
Thu 14 March 2024: Following three years of negotiation, Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan has announced the termination of negotiations for the transaction to sell 51% of South African Airways (SAA) to the Takatso Consortium. The collapse of the negotiations – which put an end to the sale to the equity partner – was […]
Continue Reading
Wed 13 March 2024: South Africa’s foreign minister has said that any of her country’s citizens who fight with the Israeli armed forces in Gaza will be arrested when they return home. Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor made the comments earlier this week at a Palestinian solidarity event attended by officials from South Africa’s governing African […]
Continue Reading
Wed 13 March 2024: South Africa has no regrets about becoming the first country to file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to end its “deadly and relentless genocidal bombardment” of Gaza. This is according to Deputy President Paul Mashatile who attended a question and answer session in the […]
Continue Reading
Tue 12 March 2024: The Sudanese Army said today that it has taken control of Sudan’s national radio and television headquarters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Reuters has reported. The building is in Omdurman, across the River Nile from Khartoum and part of Sudan’s wider capital. There was no immediate comment from the RSF. Earlier […]
Continue Reading
Tue 12 March 2024: The Independent Electoral Commission says over 27.79 million voters – the highest since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, are eligible to cast their votes in the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. According to the Commission, the voters’ roll will be certified by the Chief Electoral Officer today. Briefing media […]
Continue Reading
Sun 10 March 2024: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa, the country’s electoral body, said on Saturday that a total of 115 parties have submitted applications to contest seats in the National Assembly. All the 14 parties currently represented in the National Assembly have submitted applications to contest seats in the National Assembly […]
Continue Reading
Sun 10 March 2024: More than 99,000 people including 61,492 children have fled their homes due to renewed violence in northern Mozambique, Save the Children said Tuesday. In a statement, the British charity said multiple cases of violent confrontation between armed groups and security forces had been reported in several districts across Cabo Delgado province. […]
Continue Reading
