Tue 12 October 2021: South African Airways is open to dialogue with the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) following a picket at the airline’s Kempton Park offices. According to reports, SACCA is picketing against, amongst others, alleged unfair working conditions, 35% wage cuts to workers and the structure of SAA’s management. “SAA [interim] CEO, […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other prevailing circumstances, has prolonged the negative impact of the Public Investment Corporation’s (PIC) future financial results. The warning has been fired by the PIC’s board of directors in the corporation’s 2020/21 Integrated Annual Report released last week. The PIC, which is […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: Six member states of the East African Community (EAC), a regional bloc, lost 92 per cent revenues in the tourism sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a top official said here. Peter Mathuki, the EAC Secretary General, said that tourist arrivals to the region fell from 6.98 million before the pandemic […]
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Mon 11 October 2021: The General Assembly of Algerian Contractors, an economic employers’ association, yesterday announced that it had decided to boycott the imports of 500 French companies following French President Emmanuel Macron’s “harmful comments” about Algeria’s history and image. “We thank all the economic institutions that took the initiative to cut their commercial dealings […]
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Mon 11 October 2021: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has gazetted the amendment of Disaster Management Act regulations, to allow spectators at sports venue. Amended on Sunday, the Minister in the gazette said the move comes after government eased lockdown restrictions following a drastic decline in COVID-19 infections in […]
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Mon 11 October 2021: As its present mandate expires on December 31, the African Union says it would extend and expand its military operations in Somalia against Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists to include other member states. In recent months, the Horn of Africa nation has experienced fresh turmoil, with long-running election delays and an ongoing feud between […]
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Mon 11 October 2021: South Africa has now administered 19 041 535 COVID-19 vaccines after new 21 867 jabs were distributed in the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, according to the Department of Health, 911 989 adults are now fully vaccinated. The latest data show that 17 487 eligible vaccinees either received Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot or the two-dose […]
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Sun 10 October 2021: Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated in the capital Tunis on Sunday against power seizure by the country’s president, Kais Saied, reported Anadolu Agency. Demonstrators gathered in the Hayreddin Pasha Street and marched towards the Habib Bourguiba Avenue amid a heavy security presence, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter. “Constitution, Freedom, National Dignity” reads a banner […]
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Sun 10 October 2021: A Colombian nun who was kidnapped by Mali rebels in 2017 has been released. After more than four years in captivity, Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was released on Saturday. She was kidnapped in February 2017 near the Burkina Faso border by the Macina Liberation Front, an al-Qaeda-linked group. Narvaez met with Mali’s […]
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Sat 09 October 2021: French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday at a summit that his country has “no goal of staying in Mali for a long time.” The Africa-France Summit was held in Montpellier, where young Africans participated without the involvement of the heads of states of African countries. Macron, the only president at the […]
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