Tue 15 March 2022: State owned power utility Eskom is calling on all customers – whether business, government or the general public – to pay their electricity bills. This after the power utility won a legal battle against the Letsemeng Local Municipality in which the local government institution was instructed to pay its R41 million […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: According to the mayor of a village in northern Burkina Faso, armed gunmen killed at least eight people who were collecting water. The tragedy, which occurred early Monday morning, brought the total number of people slain in the restive area to more than 30 in three days of violence. The incident […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister, Barbara Creecy, has proposed a public consultation process that will hear all inputs into the various appeals related to air quality matters currently being considered. Creecy is currently dealing with several appeals against various decisions by the department’s National Air Quality Officer (NAQO) regarding requests […]
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Mon 14 March 2022: Power utility Eskom has warned that the power system remains under constraint despite having recovered sufficiently to suspend all load shedding. Eskom brought load shedding to a halt on Sunday evening following a tumultuous week for the energy giant where it lost at least 20 000MW of generation capacity – forcing it […]
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Sun 13 March 2022: Nutrition-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, remain a serious health issue. In the near future, these diseases are likely to become increasingly prevalent in developing countries like South Africa due to rapid and unplanned urbanisation. Urbanisation is the main driver of the obesity pandemic and associated chronic diseases. This […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: Africa’s top public health agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer to bring supplies of the pharmaceutical firm’s Paxlovid antiviral COVID-19 pills to the continent. “The memorandum of understanding is with the legal office at the AU [African Union]”, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control […]
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Fri 11 March 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa has been approached to play a “mediation role” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The President had a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday afternoon. According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, at least 2.3 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their […]
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Thu 10 March 2022: Russia has withdrawn hundreds of allied Syrian fighters from Libya, as reports emerge of the Kremlin pulling out of some of its operations in the Middle East amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. According to the local Syrian opposition news outlet, Suwayda 24, hundreds of fighters from Syria recruited by Russia to […]
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Thu 10 March 2022: The rising oil price, the potential weakening of the rand against the United States dollar, and supply constraints around wheat, pose upside risks to food and headline inflation. This is according Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana who noted that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine carries with it significant risks for […]
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Wed 09 March 2022: Eskom Chief Operations Officer Jan Oberholzer says Stage 4 load shedding will give the power utility enough space to build up fast-depleting emergency reserves and avoid the risk of implementing Stage 6 load shedding. Stage 4 load shedding was implemented on Wednesday morning following a barrage of breakdowns, shutdowns and trips […]
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