Tue 6 December 2022: South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.6% between July and September, Deputy Director General for Economic Statistics, Joe de Beer, announced on Tuesday. The main attributors, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said, were the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries, which increased by 19.2% in the third quarter, contributing 0.5 of […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: Forget Wags. The secret of Morocco’s success at World Cup 2022 might come down to the players’ parents who have joined them. After Morocco shocked the footballing world by defeating pre-tournament favourites Belgium 2-0 in a Group F play, Paris Saint-Germain fullback Achraf Hakimi made a beeline for his mother in the stands. […]
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Tue 6 December 2022: The National Assembly Programming Committee (NAPC) has postponed to next week Tuesday the debate on the Section 89 Panel Report, which looks into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm. “The NAPC has, during its urgent meeting convened on Monday evening, resolved to defer the consideration of the Section 89 […]
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Sun 04 December 2022: Burkina Faso’s military government on Saturday announced it has suspended the broadcast of France’s Radio France Internationale (RFI) with immediate effect. A statement by government spokesman Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo accused the broadcaster of giving voice to “a message of intimidation to the population attributed to a terrorist leader.” The accusation was […]
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Fri 02 December 2022: South Africa requires an initial funding of about R1.5 trillion to transition to a low carbon and climate resilient society for the five-year period 2023–2027, says Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) Commissioner Joanne Yawitch. Addressing a hybrid Special Sitting on Understanding the contents of South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) […]
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Fri 02 December 2022: Presidential spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says President Cyril Ramaphosa is still engaging stakeholders with regards to the way forward following findings by an Independent Section 89 panel that the President may have violated his oath of office. The panel was formed to look into the circumstances around a robbery at the President’s […]
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Fri 02 December 2022: The Nigerian government has approved a new National Language Policy that would forbid the teaching of English in primary schools and require the use of regional languages instead. Following the Federal Executive Council’s (FEC) approval of the policy in a meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, the policy […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says Swiss engineering company, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), is expected to pay some R2.5 billion in “punitive reparations to South Africa” for its part in State Capture. The company was allegedly irregularly awarded a lucrative control and instrumentation contract at Eskom’s Kusile Power Station in 2015 […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says he “categorically denies” allegations that he has violated his oath of office. This as the independent Section 89 panel – formed to look into the robbery at the Phala Phala game farm – found that the President may have seriously violated sections 96(2)(a) of the Constitution and […]
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Thu 01 December 2022: Thousands of Egyptians are demanding that the British Museum return the Rosetta Stone as the museum marks 200 years since deciphering hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone was a breakthrough in allowing Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols to be decoded for the first time in centuries. An organiser of one petition calling for the […]
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