Tue 15 February 2022: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has gazetted a further extension of the National State of Disaster on COVID-19, until 15 March 2022. The Ministry on Monday said the extension followed a special Cabinet meeting to determine the extent to which the management of the COVID-19 […]
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Mon 14 February 2022: The Department of Employment and Labour has filed court papers against Huawei Technologies South Africa due to non-compliance with the employment equity policy. In a statement on Friday, the department said Huawei Technologies South Africa was audited in 2020 and found to be non-compliant in that the company employs approximately 90% […]
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Sun 13 February 2022: Mandisa Maya, Judge President of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, was recently recommended by the country’s Judicial Services Commission to become the next Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. The position became vacant after the 12-year term of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng ended in October 2021. It is now up to President Cyril […]
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A photogrammetry image of the tracks. The horizontal and vertical scales are in metres. CHARLES HELM _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 12 February 2022: It’s been 27 years since geologist David Roberts identified some of the oldest footprints of our species ever discovered. The trackway of three footprints was found on the surface of a cemented sand dune (called […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Regional director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, says the continent is on course to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. She was speaking as the continent is about to observe two years since the first case of COVID-19 was identified on 14 February. Since then, at least 11 million cases […]
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Fri 11 February 2022: President Cyril Ramaphosa says government will immediately fill critical vacancies and address positions affected by suspensions in the State Security Agency and Crime Intelligence. This follows the release of the report of the expert panel on the civil unrest which occurred in July 2021, which gripped parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: In response to the country’s rapid acceptance of various digital payments, Kenya’s central bank announced on Thursday that it is looking into the idea of introducing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) said in a statement issued in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, that there has been […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: Swahili has been officially adopted as an official working language by the Africa Union, which has 55 member states. Tanzanian Vice President Philip Mpango requested the approval, arguing that over 100 million people in Africa speak Swahili, making it one of the most widely spoken languages on the African continent. “Kiswahili […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: It will be an unfamiliar setting when President Cyril Ramaphosa lays out government’s roadmap when he delivers his sixth State of the Nation Address (SONA) this evening. Apart from a limited number of Members of Parliament and guests in attendance, it will be the first time in the history of South […]
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Thu 10 February 2022: Following a recent boost in vaccine supplies, top European Union authorities have stated that low COVID-19 vaccine absorption in African countries has become the key challenge in the worldwide vaccination deployment. African countries started their vaccination campaigns far later than wealthy countries, which hurried to get the first limited doses, which […]
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