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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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Thu 01 February 2024: Ghana has a significant prevalence of anaemia among women and children, despite years of intensive government measures to address the issue, Xinhua reported. About 41 percent of women aged 15 to 49 in Ghana have anemia, with 51 percent of pregnant women affected, as revealed in a sub-report from the 2022 […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: The church of a religious figure who commanded his followers to starve themselves and their children to death in order to enter paradise was outlawed by Kenyan authorities on Wednesday as an organised criminal group. Head of the Good News International Church Paul Mackenzie is currently being charged with murder, torturing […]
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Thu 01 February 2024: International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, said she was of the view that Israel was flouting Friday’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling to stop the killings in Gaza. “I do believe the rulings of the court have been ignored by Israel. Hundreds of people have been killed in […]
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