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Environmental activists are taking Standard Bank to task about its association and financial support for fossil fuel projects.
Environmental activists are taking Standard Bank to task about its association and financial support for fossil fuel projects.
The ANC-in-government has over the years repeatedly ignored warnings from National Treasury about the urgency of reforms, policy uncertainty and proper fiscal management. Covid-19 has made everything worse, but it is not the cause of the dire straits we find ourselves in, writes Pieter du Toit.
Nueva Inversiones Pacifico Sur says it has expressed a 'firm intention' to acquire 50.1% of the hotel group's shares.
Greece, Argentina, post-war Germany and Zimbabwe are some of the scenarios the finance minister painted on Wednesday as he described SA's possible future.
A 35-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for raping and sodomising his then-estranged wife in Motherwell, Eastern Cape, the National Prosecuting Authority has said.
Zambia's health minister Chitalu Chilufya has been arrested and charged with using ill-gotten gains to acquire property, the country's anti-corruption commission says.
Charges have been dropped against a Canadian indigenous leader whose violent arrest was captured on video and decried by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "shocking."
Although the reopening date has not been announced, the Department of Social Development released a circular this week regarding the preparation and planning for ECD centres and partial care facilities.
The family of a 10-year-old girl from Rietfontein, Gauteng, are struggling to come to terms with her brutal murder after she was stabbed in the throat during an horrific attack at their home on Sunday morning.
Principals, teachers, and parents plan to picket in Cape Town on Thursday against the "premature reopening of schools" which they say is compromising the safety of pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Zimbabwe dollar fell 129% on Tuesday after officials switched to a currency auction trading system from the previous peg.
The Eastern Cape, North West, Gauteng and Northern Cape remain serial defaulters when it comes to the payment of suppliers.
Elisa Khumalo, 104, has watched as other people in the area got new toilets, but not her - she still has to relieve herself in the open.
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said the country is facing a sovereign debt crisis if spending isn’t changed soon.
The family of an Umlazi councillor, who was brazenly shot and killed in his own yard while his children helplessly watched on, have spoken about the traumatic incident.
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With coronavirus cases surging across the US South and West, officials are once again imposing tough measures, from stay-at-home advice in worst-hit states to quarantines to protect recovering areas like New York.
Police in DRC's capital have fired tear gas for a second straight day to break up violent protests outside parliament over proposed changes in the judiciary.
The province has 41 quarantine and isolation facilities - comprising both public and private facilities - housing 948 people.
The national government has, for a second time, been interdicted by the high court from implementing new regulations to control measures for the humanitarian distribution of food for the hungry.
Following the High Court judgement which declared some Covid-19 regulations unconstitutional and invalid, handed down by Judge Norman Davis, the panel sent a policy brief to the presidency, outlining how government can move forward in to properly implement the DMA.
Malawi's electoral commission has appealed for "peace and calm" as it tallied ballots following a historic poll to re-elect a president after Peter Mutharika's victory was overturned.
Demonstrators in five cities describe how police used force on peaceful protests, resulting in serious injuries, trauma.
Academics have warned suspended rights during the lockdown period should not become a new norm while the government does not have a post-Covid-19 plan to rescue both the economy and address the social impacts of Covid-19.
While opposition parties were generally uninspired by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's supplementary budget he delivered on Wednesday, his most strident criticism came from within the tripartite alliance as Cosatu expressed its disillusionment with the budget.
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