Wed 05 Apr 2023: Government announced on Wednesday that it has terminated, with immediate effect, the National State of Disaster declared by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) on 9 February 2023. This comes after a legal challenge to stop the State of Disaster by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), which […]
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Tue 04 Apr 2023: Some 41.8 tonnes of gold were mined in Sudan last year, worth 150.9 billion Sudanese pounds ($2.5 billion)., the government said yesterday. The data came in a statement issued by the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company affiliated with the Ministry of Minerals. It said that “last year’s production recorded 41.8 tonnes.” No […]
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Tue 04 Apr 2023: Former Bizhub Lions cricket player, Jean Symes, has been found guilty of participating in match-fixing for the domestic Ram Slam T20 Cricket Challenge. This comes after the Anti-Corruption officer at Cricket SA received information from a whistle-blower about alleged match-fixing planned for the 2015/2016 domestic Ram Slam T20 Cricket Challenge. “The […]
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Mon 03 Apr 2023: Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille announced on Monday that tourist arrivals to South Africa are on the rise, while airline traffic is on a rebound after the industry was battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Between January and December 2022, data shows that South Africa welcomed 5.7 million tourists – a sharp […]
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A protester burns the Israeli flag at a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine and against Israeli military escalation in the occupied West Bank. Sat 01 Apr 2023: Hundreds of Moroccans from 30 cities have marked the 47th Palestine Land Day and chanted against their country’s normalisation of ties with Israel. “Moroccan people commemorated Palestine Land […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: South Africa has recorded 40 new laboratory-confirmed measles cases in the past week, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Friday. According to the NICD, it has tested 5 335 serum samples for measles since the outbreak last year, 865 of which (16%) were confirmed positive. Meanwhile, the public […]
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Fri 31 March 2023: Justice and Correctional Services (DJCOD) Minister Ronald Lamola says the department is doing all it can to mitigate the impact of load shedding on court services. He said the delivery of justice services must continue, despite the challenges of scheduled power outages. “We have to do everything we can to adjust […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the repurchase rate (repo rate) has reached 7.75% after the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) agreed to a 50 basis points increase. As a result, the prime interest rate will now move up to 11.25%. Kganyago announced this at a […]
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Thu 30 March 2023: An urgent meeting has been requested between the South African and United Arab Emirates’ central authorities as well as the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola and his counterpart in the UAE – to get an update on the status of an extradition application pertaining to Atul Gupta and […]
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A woman explains to villagers of Mekemeke, Mpumalanga how to purify water with chlorine to prevent cholera outbreaks, after floods which severely affected several municipalities in Mpumalanga, on February 16, 2023. Picture: AFP Thu 30 March 2023: The Department of Health has expressed concern at the increasing number of locally acquired indigenous cholera cases following […]
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