Wed 29 March 2023: The cholera outbreak in eastern and southern Africa isn’t just an outbreak — it’s an emergency for children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday. In a statement, UNICEF called for flexible funding to help not just protect more children and communities in need but devise more resilient systems to protect children in the future. “For children, […]
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Wed 29 March 2023: Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is expected to lead a delegation to China next month to meet with his Chinese counterparts in a bid to resolve the impasse between Transnet and controversial locomotives company CRRC E-Loco Supply. Tensions between the two companies dates back to 2019 when Transnet moved to halt […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: A video showing nine Congolese miners unexpectedly popping out of a collapsed gold mine and tumbling down a steep slope as onlookers cry out in joy has gone viral in Democratic Republic of Congo, a rare happy ending to an all-too-common story. Mining accidents are rife in the giant Central African country, especially at small, artisanal sites […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Global societies are still feeling the effects of the more than 400-year-long transatlantic slave trade, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony marking the UN’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Guterres said the “evil enterprise” of […]
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Sun 26 March 2023: The sight of Israeli Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li and other Israeli delegates being escorted out of the opening ceremony of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on 18 February was historic. The very moment that was meant to crown twenty years of Israeli diplomacy on the African continent turned within a few seconds […]
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Sat 25 March 2023: Undercover reporters pose as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that need to be cleaned. They gain remarkable access to members of Africa’s Gold Mafia and film closed door meetings with crime bosses. A senior African ambassador offers to launder $1.2 million using the cover of his […]
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Sat 25 March 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin was issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week for the alleged war crime of unlawfully deporting children from areas of Ukraine under Russian control to the other parts of Russian Federation. While Moscow has denounced the ICC arrest warrant issued against Putin, […]
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Fri 24 March 2023: Government has reiterated that law enforcement institutions investigating the alleged theft of foreign currency at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm must be allowed to complete their investigations, says Deputy President Paul Mashatile. The Deputy President who was responding to oral questions in the National Assembly for the first time since […]
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Thu 23 March 2023: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that South Africa’s implementation of structural reforms, combined with fiscal consolidation, could help boost private investment, employment and growth. IMF officials held a series of meetings with South Africa this month as part of their routine economic surveillance function, as prescribed in the IMF’s Articles […]
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Tue 21 March 2023: President Cyril Ramaphosa is today leading the 2023 Human Rights Day commemoration currently taking place in De Aar, in the Northern Cape Province where he will deliver the keynote address. The theme for this first commemorative day on the annual national calendar is “Consolidating and Sustaining Human Rights Culture into the […]
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