Five Newsworthy Things in SA 13th February 2024:

News in South Africa 13th February: 1. SA’s biggest risks: The biggest risks to South Africa’s 2024 economic outlook may come from insufficient power supply, strains on debt sustainability and the erosion of state legitimacy ahead of elections, according to Allianz. The global financial services giant estimates that South Africa’s economy will expand by 1.4% […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 15th September 2022:

News in South Africa 15th September: 1. 8.5mil vaccines to be destroyed: The government plans to destroy 8.5 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by pharmaceutical company Pfizer at the end of October. This, some experts said, casted a damning spotlight on how South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign had missed the mark. The situation […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 30th August 2022:

News in South Africa 30th August: 1. Rampant inflation to stay: The message from the world’s top finance chiefs is loud and clear: rampant inflation is here to stay and taming it will take an extraordinary effort, most likely a recession with job losses and shockwaves through emerging markets. That price is still worth paying, […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 28th February 2022:

News in South Africa 28th February: 1. SA patching up relations with Russia: South Africa has scrambled to patch up relations with Russia after International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor issued an unusually strong statement calling on Russia to withdraw from Ukraine.  President Cyril Ramaphosa was reported by the Sunday Times to be unhappy with the […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 19th October 2021:

News in South Africa 19th October: 1. School vaccination drive: Gauteng premier David Makhura says his government is working on a programme that will allow children to be vaccinated at schools. “We are going to use the schools as sites for vaccination. We are urging parents to consent. We don’t want to work against parents,” […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 17th September 2021:

News in South Africa 17th September: 1. Mandatory vaccination discussion: Discussions between representatives of business, government, labour and communities will start in a few weeks on how to introduce vaccine mandates for all workers. A framework might be created that will help employers to isolate unvaccinated workers from the workplace, possibly either firing them or […]

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