Mon 20 January 2025: South Africa’s minimum wage has been linked to the destruction of 430,000 jobs since its introduction in 2018, according to the Institute for Race Relations (IRR). Low-wage workers and small businesses have been hit hardest. An estimated 227,800 jobs were lost in 2024 alone, while over 5.3 million people continue to […]
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Mon 20 January 2025: The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in Mpumalanga has announced the automatic cancellation of all fraudulent R370 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments. The SRD grant is administered in terms of app-section 32 of the Social Assistance Act, 2004 (Act No. 13 of 2004) and is implemented with […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: A mass funeral has been held for the victims of Saturday’s gasoline tanker explosion in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger, local authorities said on Sunday, while confirming that the death toll has risen from 80 to 86. A total of 80 bodies were buried in a mass grave in the Gurara […]
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Sun 19 January 2025: The death toll likely to go up in the latest tanker explosion in Africa’s largest economy amid rising fuel cost. At least 70 people were killed and more injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in northern Nigeria, the country’s national emergency agency said. The blast happened in the […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) has made strides in the case involving the alleged leaking of the class of 2024 matric results on the internet, which were allegedly being sold. In a statement on Thursday, Hawks spokesperson, Colonel Katlego Mogale, said a 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has advised that the product information for medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) be updated to include revised safety warnings, including the risk of meningioma. MPA is a synthetic oral and injectable form of the hormone progesterone and is used for birth control and the management […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: About 200,000 people have been displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), due to intense fighting between DRC military and armed groups since November 2024, the World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday. The fighting, involving rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) and other armed groups which violated […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: After 467 days of violence, a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has been reached and will come into effect on Sunday, pending Israeli government approval. This agreement will not end the war or bring about peace. Ceasefires are not a panacea for the war, trauma, displacement, hunger and death Israelis and Palestinians have […]
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Sat 18 January 2025: Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan emphasized Thursday the SAF’s ability to defeat the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), despite external pressures. Al-Burhan, also chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, made the remarks while addressing a crowd of citizens and soldiers in Wad Madani, the capital city […]
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Fri 17 January 2025: A rescue operation at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, North West, has been called off after just four days, despite expectations that it would take two weeks. According to Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, who spoke to Newzroom Afrika at the site on Thursday, the decision to withdraw came […]
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