You’re going to create mining ghost towns‚ government warned: While the date for that case has not been set down‚ the high court in Pretoria will on March 27 hear an urgent court application by Transform RSA and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) to stall the IPP deal. Energy minister Jeff …
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SA hoping to avoid credit downgrade: JOHANNESBURG – South Africa is largely expected to escape a credit rating downgrade from Moody’s. Analysts, however, are warning that the country’s economic fundamentals remain in the doldrums. This is despite the huge swing in sentiment at the end …
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Zuma’s tax chief ousted ahead of South Africa ratings decision: Mark Kingon was appointed acting head of South Africa’s tax office on Tuesday, hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa suspended his predecessor and days before a Moody’s review that could see the country lose its last investment-grade credit rating.
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Could killing teenagers be the final straw in seeking gun safety laws? –Soweto, South Africa in 1976 and Parkland, Florida in 2018: After the Second World War, apartheid (legally separating Blacks, Coloureds, Whites and Asians) was a major issue in South Africa. Slow progress was enhanced during the late 1950s by the growing civil rights movement in the USA and pressure from most …
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Cummins laughs off ball incident: Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins laughed off an incident captured on television which appeared to show him stopping the ball with the spikes of his shoes during the third test against South Africa on Thursday. The incident happened shortly before tea at …
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Scrap labour law amendment bills, say unions in South Africa: In a carnival-like atmosphere IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) took to the streets of Johannesburg protesting proposed amendments to the labour laws, which the union says will reverse the hard …
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Op-Ed: The PIRLS debacle – literacy, language and standards in schools in South Africa: Conversations about literacy/illiteracy from South Africa that I followed on social media in November 2017 featured a thread where people argued about whether South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho or Ethiopia were the most literate countries, the first three …
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