Wed 24 February 2021: In support of government’s quest to inoculate 67 percent of the South African population, the National Treasury will inject an amount of R9 billion to the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. This was on Wednesday revealed by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni while delivering the 2021 Budget Speech in Parliament. With South Africa […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has approved the 2021 toll tariffs as recommended by the South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL). Toll tariffs on South Africa’s national roads will be adjusted on 1 March 2021 by 3.39%. “The toll tariff amounts are adjusted by the annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.5% in the last three months of 2020, Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke has revealed. The increase presents a 1.7 percentage point increase from the third quarter of 2020. Despite the grim picture painted in the fourth quarter (Q4) Labour Force Survey, released on Tuesday, Stats SA […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: While the year 2020 was the most challenging for Grade 12 learners, who were compelled to study from home for almost five months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, school WhatsApp groups and support from teachers have contributed to the positive outcome of the matric results. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced […]
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Tue 23 February 2021: Canada’s House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to declare China’s treatment of its Uighur minority population a genocide– a deliberate attempt to obliterate a group of people. The motion makes Canada just the second country after the United States to recognise China’s actions as genocide. “A genocide is currently being carried […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Despite a challenging academic year, the National Senior Certificate (NSC) overall pass rate for 2020 is 76.2%. Although the 76.2% is a decline of 5.1% from the record pass of 81.3% achieved by the class of 2019, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said the class of 2020 must be commended for […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, was among three people killed during an attack on a UN convoy on Monday, local and Italian authorities said. According to local sources, the convoy was attacked in an attempted kidnapping near Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, will announce the results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations in Pretoria on Monday. The matric exams concluded on 15 December 2020 after a strenuous academic year. The release of the matric results have been approved by Umalusi, the Quality Council in General and […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on Tanzanian authorities to release COVID-19 data and implement public health measures to break the chain of transmission of the deadly virus. Magufuli has long downplayed the seriousness of COVID-19, which has killed more than 2.1 million people worldwide. He has previously questioned the efficacy of […]
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Sun 21 February 2021: Private security contractor and ally of former US President Trump Erik Prince violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media on Friday. The confidential report to the Security Council said that Prince in 2019 deployed a force of foreign mercenaries […]
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