News in South Africa 31st October: 1. Election clean up: South Africans should use next year’s elections to vote out “useless” politicians who have failed to prioritise jobs and drive investment, and choose leaders who will get the struggling economy back on track, according to one of the country’s top bankers. “You have to have […]
News in South Africa 6th October: 1. Cost of living crisis: Economists have flagged South Africa’s fiscal crisis, a weakening rand, and the consequences of poor governance – painting a bleak future for the average South African as the cost of living crisis deteriorates. South African Reward Association member Kirk Kruger said South Africans are […]
News in South Africa 15th December: 1. Joburg gets a break from load shedding: Power utility Eskom says it will give the City of Johannesburg’s City Power a reprieve from load shedding. This follows requests from the city this week for a three-day break from rolling blackouts so it could attend to disaster-struck areas. “Eskom […]
News in South Africa 12th December: 1. Stage 7 load shedding already here: As power utility Eskom spent much of last week avoiding the dreaded stage 7 load shedding threshold, economists at the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) said it has already technically been crossed. “At a point last week, Eskom was technically ‘shedding’ at […]
News in South Africa 6th October: 1. Uniting to vaccinate everyone: South Africa’s first ‘Vooma Vaccination’ weekend set an ambitious target of vaccinating 500,000 people, and while it only achieved around 350,000 jabs, it represented a significant increase for weekend figures and included an encouraging number of first jabs, says Martin Kingston, chair of Business […]
News in South Africa 4th October: 1. UK to lift travel restrictions: The United Kingdom has updated its international travel system, effectively scrapping its ‘traffic light’ programme, which classified countries as ‘green’, ‘yellow’ and ‘red’ based on their Covid-19 risk. The change, which took effect from Monday morning (4 October), introduces only two categories – […]
