Five Newsworthy Things in SA 4th April 2023:

News in South Africa 4th April: 1. Why Eskom is exempted: National Treasury claims pressure would be placed on the fiscus and the borrowing powers of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) if the exemption granted to Eskom from disclosing irregular and fruitless expenditure in its annual financial statements was not considered. Reacting to widespread criticism of the […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 7th December 2022:

News in South Africa 7th December: 1. SA’s economic growth hampered: Chief economist at Econometrix, Azar Jammine, said that corruption and a lack of infrastructure investment could hamper the country’s economic growth. The economy grew by 1.6% in the third quarter of 2022, after contracting by 0.7% in the second quarter. But Jammine was worried that […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 5th December 2022:

News in South Africa 5th December: 1. Load shedding issues worsen: While South Africa’s political space sits in a state of turmoil, the country’s power situation has been there for a long time – and is expected to get worse when Koeberg Unit 1 is pulled offline this week. On Thursday, 8 December 2022, Unit 1 […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 11th April 2022:

News in South Africa 11th April: 1. Global recession on the cards?: Could the world be headed for another recession? Just as the global economy is bouncing back from the Covid-19 pandemic, a growing list of risks is clouding the economic outlook – although most economists still believe a recession this year is relatively unlikely. […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 4th December 2020:

News in South Africa 4th December: 1. Nelson Mandela Bay a hotspot: President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday said there was clear evidence of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections across the country with an increase in the number hospital admissions. While addressing the nation on interventions to combat the surge in coronavirus cases, the president extended the National State of Disaster […]

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