Tue 06 June 2023: Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) announced on Tuesday that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2023. Data show that the manufacturing and finance industries were major drivers of growth on the supply side of the economy. “The demand side was lifted by exports, […]
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Tue 06 June 2023: State power utility Eskom says it remains committed to rooting out fraud and corruption within the utility. This after a City Press report alleged over the weekend that police are planning to arrest a senior executive at Eskom on allegations that the executive is part of sabotage efforts targeting power stations to cause […]
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Mon 05 June 2023: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has signed an agreement which gives a company in the UAE exclusive export rights of locally extracted gold for 25 years as well as a preferential tax rate of 0.25 per cent. The deal was apparently finalized late last year in an […]
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Mon 05 June 2023: Cash strapped consumers will experience some relief at the pumps this week when the price of all grades of petrol and diesel decreases. The price of paraffin will also decrease, with an increase in the price of gas. Fuel price adjustments as announced by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy […]
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Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, presented Dr Iqbal Survé with the Russian Foreign Ministry’s medal for cooperation. Mon 05 June 2023: Former BRICS Business Council chairman, Dr Iqbal Survé, recently received the Russian Foreign Ministry’s medal for co-operation from Russia’s Sergey Lavrov, who is attending the meeting of BRICS Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations in […]
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Sun 04 June 2023: The Department of Health has alerted the public of an increasing circulation of influenza, also known as “flu”, around the country since the beginning of May 2023. The department was notified by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) about the rising cases. In a statement on Saturday, the department said […]
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Colleagues pay their last respects to the deceased. Ugandans constitute the largest contingent in the African Union force in Somalia. Photo by @PsychoSomalia (FILE PHOTO) Sun 04 June 2023: 54 Ugandan soldiers were killed in an al-Shabab attack on a base holding African Union peacekeepers in Somalia, according to Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda. […]
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Imtiaz Sooliman, of Gift of the Givers, said conscious leadership is spiritual. It is “when the soul starts thinking of how to behave correctly”. Sun 04 June 2023: Many citizens of the global south have noticed some obvious trends in the news in the past few weeks. These highlight issues in the international system of […]
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Sat 03 June 2023: Senior officials from more than a dozen countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iran, were in talks on forging closer links with the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies on Friday, as it met to deepen ties and position itself as a counter-weight to the West, Reuters reports. BRICS, which now consists of Brazil, […]
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The Qatar Red Crescent Society provides medicines and medical consumables to the states of Blue Nile, Kassala, Gedaref, North Kordofan and River Nile states. Fri 02 June 2023: Aid workers in Sudan say fierce fighting, rampant looting and reams of red tape are hampering efforts to deliver vital humanitarian supplies to the millions of […]
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