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Supermarkets cashing in during pandemic - OXFAM
Charity group Oxfam has released a report saying that while supermarkets around the world have been cashing in during the COVID-19 pandemic, workers who produce food continue to conduct "modern slave labor." The report titled "Not in this together," revealed that workers are getting less and less...
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UN child agency welcomes early school closure in SA
South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa has brought forward the closure of schools for the winter holidays by a few weeks, as the country battles to curb the rise of new Covid-19 infections. Schools will start closing on Wednesday, and are expected to be all closed by the end of the week. The...
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Nurses fighting COVID overwhelmed in SA hospitals
Pressure is continuing to pile up on health workers in South Africa's hospitals in the Gauteng province, which is currently the pandemic's epicentre in the country. This is despite President Cyril Ramaphosa's recent announcement that at least 1 200 beds have been added in the province. Medics…
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SA Heroes Awards 2021 Nominee Dr K on giving back & his nomination
Dr Kometsi Mokuele heads up Sunset dentistry in Fourways, Johannesburg. He heads up 2 other branches in Soweto and Sebokeng and will be opening another one in Midrand. Dr K, as he is affectionately known is passionate about community building. He is permanently servicing pro-bono the Johannesburg...
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POWERSHIP DENIED
South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment affairs has refused to give authorisation to Turkish powership company- Karpowership, blocking the energy company from provinding emergency power to the debilitated South African grid. The application was dismissed on...
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Climate and Environment Charter
The humanitarian sector has a key role to play in addressing the climate and environment crises that affect people's lives and livelihoods around the world every day. This means walking the talk in integrating climate smart approaches into its work and greening its own operations. This is…
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SAMA appeal to SA government to consider unemployed doctors to fight Covid-19
The South African Medical Association, SAMA has again made an appeal to government to consider recently graduated doctors who are unemployed to complement the nation's frontline-workers in the battle against the third wave of the coronavirus. SAMA says the reasons advanced by government that the...
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Youth Day positives
Nomantande Precious Yeki speaks about the positives derived from the events of June 16, 1976…
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In Conversations with Nomantande Precious Yeki
How youth can benefit from agriculture Nomantande Precious Yeki speaks about how youth can benefit from organisations dealing with assisting young farmers to excel in agriculture. Is there hope for young farmers?
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SA calls for UN to move IGN on security reform to text-based negotiations
South Africa has made a firm call for the UN General Assembly to move the Intergovernmental Negotiations on Security Council reform to text-based negotiations. South Africa says the current composition of the Council is antiquated. The statement was made as member states took a consensus position...
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Kenyan Deputy President to contest next year's Presidential Election
Kenyan Deputy President, William Ruto, has for the first time announced that he will contest next year's Presidential Election, on the ticket of his newly-formed political party, United Democratic Alliance. The rare and surprise announcement, comes more than three years after Ruto was politically...
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Mozambique calls for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted
Mozambique has again called for sanctions against Zimbabwe to be lifted. The call was made at a ministerial session of the SADC-European Union political dialogue, where Mozambique asked Portugal to help lift economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.
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Mozambican nationals in SA allege that refugee status granted to them in 1992 has been cancelled
Mozambican nationals, who fled the civil war in the 80, have raised concern about the blocking of their South African identity documents. They say they have been living in Lilydale east of Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga for over two decades. They allege that the refugee status granted to them in 1992,...
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Jobs survey
The first South African Entrepreneurs Job Creators Survey report has been released providing key insights into the pivotal role women entrepreneurs play as job creators. The findings indicate a deep commitment into job creation amongst South African entrepreneurs with 90 percent reporting job...
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Bathu one of Africa's most admired brand
South Africa's sneaker brand Bathu recently earned itself a spot in Brand Africa 100's Top 10 Most Admired brand. The ranking is the most authoritative survey and analysis on brands and underlying businesses in Africa.The sneaker brand has also unveiled its CSI project where it plans to donate...
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Eswatini clean energy production
Eswatini has become one of the first African states to move towards clean energy production with an aim to lower carbon emissions and reduce its energy dependence on neighboring countries like South Africa and Mozambique. The project will create a number of employment opportunities in the tiny...
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A spate of gruesome murders in Zimbabwe
A spate of gruesome murders in the Zimbabwean rural areas are giving security authorities sleepless nights as solutions appear to be scarce. This is so, as more Zimbabweans are now desperate and resorting to crime to survive in a country with almost zero employment rate. Spirituality and beliefs...
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G7 Summit
South Africa, together with India, South Korea and Australia, have been invited as guests to the G7 Leaders' Summit which takes place from tomorrow in Cornwall in the United Kingdom .The G7 summit takes place amidst an unprecedented global pandemic, compounded by the climate emergency and rising...
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MASEGO MOALOSI CHANGE MAKER & SA HEROES AWARDS 2021 NOMINEE
Life By Design's change maker of the week is the Founder & CEO at Being Iconic Magazine, a women for women magazine that focuses on Women Empowerment, Inspiration, Trends and that celebrates and support women entrepreneurs.
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SASCOC unveils official Olympic kit for Team South Africa
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee- SASCOC- has unveiled the official kit for Team South Africa ahead of the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in Japan. The games will start on July 23rd after an initial postponement due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Kit sponsor Mr Price...
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Malawi President appoints four new commissioners of the Electoral Commission
Malawi President, Lazarus Chakwera has appointed four new commissioners of the Electoral Commission, following an order by the High Court last week. The order was also in line with the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal that some of the commissioners were unduly elected by then...
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Germany rejects calls for reparations from Namibians over colonial-era killings
Germany has rejected calls for reparations from Namibians over colonial-era killings that Berlin has recognised as genocide, saying the $1.3 Billion financial aid it was offering was on a "voluntary basis". German foreign minister Heiko Maas acknowledged that over the years there had been calls…
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Zambia's ConCourt to deliver judgment on the future of President Edgar Lungu
Zambia's Constitutional Court is expected to deliver judgment today on whether President Edgar Lungu is eligible to contest the August 12 general election. A petition was brought forward by NGOs in the country seeking a nullification of President Lungu's nomination for election as President, as…
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Climate change will be high on the agenda at G7 in UK
Climate change will be high on the agenda at the upcoming G7 Summit in the United Kingdom this weekend. President Cyril Ramaphosa has been invited and is expected to raise issues of financial support for developing nations tackling the effects of climate change. In a pre-Summit telephonic...
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United Arab Emirates ratifies the extradition treaty with South Africa
The UAE Ambassador to South Africa Mahash Alhameli has confirmed that his country has ratified the extradition treaty with South Africa that will ensure that the Guptas are brought back to South Africa, to answer to allegations of state capture. This comes as South Africa' National Prosecuting...
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Zimbabwean community lobby African governments to force authorities to respect their constitutional rights
The Zimbabwean community of Dinde village is lobbying African governments to help force the Zimbabwean authorities to respect their constitutional rights. This as a Chinese-owned investment company known as Beifa Investments is reportedly forcing hundreds of families out of their homes, to make…
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Aid groups express concerns over plight of displaced people in eastern DRC
Aid groups have expressed concerns over the plight of about 6,000 displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri Province. Deadly attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces have forced people to flee multiple displacement sites. ADF simultaneously attacked displacement sites and...
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SA HEROES AWARDS 2021 NOMINEE VUYANI NKALITSHANE ON HIS NOMINATION & PASSION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Vuyani Nkalitshane is a passionate maths genius who helps high school learners with Maths in his community. Nkalitshane is tutoring grade 9 and grade 10 learners from various high schools in Elliot and Cala in SA’s Eastern Cape Province. Nkalitshane is of the perception that, in order for…
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Wage negotiations at Eskom collapses
The crucial wage negotiations at South African power utility Eskom have collapsed. In an unpreced ented move, Eskom management pulled the plug on the talks and declared a formal dispute with unions at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, CCMA.
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June is World Infertility Awareness Month
June is World Infertility Awareness Month, a time dedicated to heightening awareness regarding numerous infertility issues faced by couples across the globe. This includes problems related to female as well as male fertility. During this month, several myths regarding infertility are debunked and…
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DRC government face criticism over growing humanitarian crisis
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing criticism over a growing humanitarian crisis in the east of the country as thousands of people who fled Goma after a volcanic eruption lack shelter, food, and drinking water. Mount Nyiragongo erupted on May 22, sending lava…
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Joe Biden becomes the first sitting US President to commemorate the Oklahoma massacre
Marking the country's legacy of racial violence, Joe Biden became the first sitting US President to commemorate the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma a site where hundreds of black Americans were slaughtered by an armed white mob a century ago. His visit to the scene of the crime 100 years later…
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PAP suspended after MPs plunged the house in chaos for a third consecutive day
The Pan African Parliament was abruptly suspended after MPs plunged the house in chaos for a third consecutive day. The members clashed yet again over the electoral system with the southern Caucus pushing for the change to rotational leadership similar to the African Union process. The Eastern…
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Appeal hearing of Vital Kamerhe continued on Tuesday
The appeal hearing of Vital Kamerhe, the former Chief of staff to DRC President Félix Tshisekedi, continued on Tuesday at the Makala main prison in Kinshasa. Kamerhe who's also the Union for the Congolese Nation leader, is currently in prison serving a 20 year sentence for embezzlement of public...
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Mixed reactions after Germany recognized the atrocities committed against Namibian ethnic groups
There have been mixed reactions in Africa after Germany formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups in today's Namibia at the beginning of 20th century as "genocide". Some 60,000 Herero and around 10,000 Nama people were killed by German troops between...
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Concerns as Zimbabwe doses diminish
As Zimbabwe attained the one million mark of people who have received the COVID-19 vaccination doses, concerns are beginning to grow, as doses diminish. Zimbabwe launched its COVID-19 vaccination program in February using donated doses from China, Russia and India and promised to purchase more...
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Kenyan President has for the first time criticized five judges for rejecting a constitutional reform plan
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, has for the first time, criticized five judges of the country's High Court for rejecting a constitutional reform plan now known in the country as the Building Bridges Initiative, BBI. As James Shimanyula reports, in their ruling, the judges described the BBI as...
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US vaccinate millions of Americans, relax mask mandates
In a few short months the United States has vaccinated millions of Americans, allowing the country to relax mask mandates and start vaccinating adolescents. But America's success has been met with anger from other countries - many of which are still being ravaged by Covid-19 and struggling to...
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GERMANY NAMIBIA DEAL
There have been mixed reactions in Africa after Germany formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups in today's Namibia at the beginning of 20th century as "genocide". Some 60,000 Herero and around 10,000 Nama people were killed by German troops between...
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AFRICA DAY DISCUSSION
What is an African, who is an African and how can Africa Day be commemorated in a meaningful thoughtful way. These are some of the questions panelists sought to answer at a discussion held in Soweto in South Africa to commemorate Africa Day. The day marks the establishment of the Organisation of...
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Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks. This was revealed yesterday by the World Health Organisation, during a virtual press briefing on Covid-19 in Africa. W.H.O Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti appealed to countries that...
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Denel cannot afford to pay full salaries to staff
The plight of workers at South Africa's state owned arms manufacturer Denel has been laid bare with the disclosure by Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan in parliament earlier this week that the company last paid full salaries a year ago. Gordhan told Members of Parliament that currently,...
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Zimbabwean youth determined to help their country regain the breadbasket of Africa status
Zimbabwean youth say they are determined to help their country regain the breadbasket of Africa status. As more and more young people look to agriculture as they find it difficult to secure jobs in their trained professions. Some have gone into commercial tobacco farming, others into maize...
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Court order Shell to reduce its CO2 emissions within 10 years
For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. The court at The Hague in the Netherlands has ruled that oil giant Shell Plc must reduce its CO2 emissions within 10 years. This historic verdict has enormous consequences for Shell and…
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African business magazine release exclusive ranking of Africa's Best Brands
An African business magazine, African Business, has released its June cover story featuring its exclusive ranking of Africa's Best Brands. This year's ranking was released during a virtual event from Uganda organised by Brand Africa, founders of the "Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands"....
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Troika Summits underway in Mozambique
The President of Mozambique and President-in-Office of the Southern African Development Community, Filipe Nyusi is today hosting the Extraordinary Summits of the Troika of the SADC Organ plus Mozambique and the Double Troika of the SADC.
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Libya's unity government, European Union urged to protect migrants
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has urged Libya's unity government and European Union (EU) countries to act to protect migrants making the dangerous crossing in the central Mediterranean Sea. Calling for urgent reform of current policies and practices on search and rescue...
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PAP Parliament sitting postponed due a suspected positive covid 19 case
The Pan African Parliament sitting in Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa has been postponed due a suspected positive covid 19 case. Members were expected to vote in new leadership today. The house needs to elect a new bureau which consists of one President and four vice-presidents who will...
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CoDA brings together scientists, researchers to look at Africa's response to the Covid-19 pandemic
The Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) is an independent international forum which facilitates conversations with the African Union. Recently CoDA brought together scientists, researchers, community leaders and civil society in a virtual meeting to look at Africa's response to the Covid-19...
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Civil Society organisations challenges Zambian President through petition
Zambian President Edgar Lungu's eligibility to contest in the August polls is being challenged through a petition brought forward by some Civil Society organisations, Chapter One Foundation and Legal Resources Foundation in Zambia. They are seeking a nullification of President Lungu's nomination...
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