Tue 06 February 2024: Dakar, Senegal – Plateau, the downtown Dakar neighbourhood that is home to the country’s National Assembly, was tense but quiet on Monday morning. Inside parliament, the assembly was anything but. Lawmakers were debating on President Macky Sall’s announcement to postpone general elections – originally scheduled for February 25 – for an additional […]
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Tue 06 February 2024: The Department of Employment and Labour has warned work seekers not to pay for employment opportunities. The department has noted with concern a number of scams that keep popping up periodically, where unemployed people are promised jobs at a fee. The latest scam is one that uses the department’s name for […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Many South African households are trapped. They are neither poor nor middle class. As a demographic they hover above the indigence threshold financially. But they are not yet securely in the middle class. This aspirant middle class – individuals whose income is above the indigent thresholds but too low to afford […]
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Mon 05 February 2024: Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has announced a new National Minimum Wage (NMW) determination which will go up from R25,42 to R27,58 for each ordinary hour worked. In a statement on Saturday, the Department of Employment and Labour said the new NMW will come into effect from 1 March 2024. […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: Rights groups have warned that the new deal signed between Italy and African states is border control disguised as aid with questions being asked about the partners in the deal, who include a defence company. On Monday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni launched a much-awaited Italy-Africa summit aimed at unveiling concrete projects […]
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A ceremonial cap worn by courtiers at coronations is among the items that will be loaned back to Ghana (PHOTO: BRITISH MUSEUM) Sun 04 February 2024: After stealing them from the Asante king’s court for 150 years, the UK is returning some of Ghana’s “crown jewels” home. According to the BBC, among the 32 objects […]
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Sun 04 February 2024: Namibian President Hage Geingob passed away at the age of 82, less than three weeks after it was revealed he would receive cancer treatment. Geingob’s wife and children were by his side when he passed away on Sunday at Lady Pohamba Hospital in Windhoek, according to a statement released on Geingob’s […]
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Sat 03 February 2024: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said, on Friday, it was receiving reports of people dying of starvation in Sudan and that the number of hungry people has doubled over the past year as a war has cut off civilians from aid, Reuters reports. WFP called on Sudan’s warring factions, the Sudanese army […]
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Fri 02 February 2024: Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned power utility, struggles to generate and supply a stable flow of electricity to meet demand. In 2023, there were times when households and businesses had no power for up to 11 hours a day. Eskom has warned that load shedding will be worse in 2024. The result is that many South […]
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