Thu 05 August 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa announced new ministerial positions and a restructured national executive on Thursday. “I have also accepted a long-standing request by Minister Tito Mboweni to be excused from his position as Minister of Finance. Minister Mboweni took up this position following the sudden departure of former Minister Nhlanhla Nene in […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: South Africa has already experienced 650 hours in power outages in the first half of 2021 where 963 Gigawatts hours (GWh) of estimated energy was shed, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said. “Intensive load shedding has been experienced in the first half of 2021 alone. This is 76% […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Applications for the Special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant will be opened from Friday, with the first payments expected to be made in the last week of August 2021. Announcing the re-introduction of the special COVID-19 SRD Grant, during a media briefing on Thursday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The South African National Parks (SANParks) says it will be going cash-free from 1 September 2021. The cash free payment system will be implemented in two phases with several parks implementing this approach from the 2021/22 financial year and the remaining parks implementing the system in the 2022/ 23 fiscal year. […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation is offering a reward of R50 000 to anyone who can provide information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of three suspects involved in the Tsineng police station armed robbery. On Saturday, the armed suspects entered the Tsineng police station in the Northern […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: According to a UN official, around 4.4 million people in northeastern Nigeria may experience food shortages and acute hunger as a result of increased attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group and the displacement of farmers in the area. Esty Sutyoko, deputy head of the UN Office for the Coordination of […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: With the recent announcement of Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce, many people are asking questions about the Foundation’s future. But this is not the first time questions about the foundation have been asked. One development expert we spoke with claims AGRA, Bill Gates’ two decade old program to feed Africa through agriculture, […]
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Tue 03 August 2021: Local authorities in Kassala province, according to a Sudanese official, have discovered roughly 50 dead floating in the river between the two countries during the past week, presumably individuals fleeing the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Some of the bodies had gunshot wounds or had their wrists bound, and an official […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: After more than a year of attending school on a rotational basis to curb the spread of COVID-19, all primary school learners are back in class on a full-time basis from today. The Department of Basic Education (DBE) said the decision to allow Grades 1 to 7 to return to school […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: Tunisia’s parliament speaker was re-hospitalized on Sunday, just a day after being discharged, when his health deteriorated due to the effects of a recent coronavirus infection. Rached Ghannouchi, who is also the leader of the Ennahda Movement, was taken to a military hospital in Tunis, Wassim Khadraoui, the press secretary to […]
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