April 16
South Africa: IEC Ready to Print Ballot Papers for 2024 Elections
SAnews.gov.za
With the finalisation of the list of candidates contesting seats in the 2024 National and Provincial Elections (NPE2024), the Electoral Commission (IEC) can now go ahead with the… Read more »
South Africa: SA Ranks Top Three for Fiscal Transparency
SAnews.gov.za
National Treasury has welcomed South Africa's ranking by the International Monetary Fund's Fiscal Transparency Evaluation Report of being among the top three countries worldwide… Read more »
South Africa: Cosatu Welcomes Excellent Progress At Parliament On the Pension Fund Amendment Bill (Two Pot Pension Reforms) [press release]
COSATU
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomes excellent progress at Parliament on the Pension Fund Amendment Bill, which is one of two critical amendment bills that… Read more »
South Africa: Angry Polokwane, Seshego Residents Up in Arms Over Water Shortages As Critical Elections Loom [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Residents are feeling the pinch as taps run dry in Limpopo's capital and in its biggest township. Read more »
South Africa: Public Sector Unions Want to Strike Over Latest 4.7 Percent Pay Rise Offer [analysis]
Daily Maverick
The government's offer to increase the pay of public servants has been rejected by several trade unions as too low. They say it is below the projected consumer inflation rate. Read more »
South Africa: The Continuing Brutality of SA Lives - Not Taken Seriously By Most Major Parties [analysis]
Daily Maverick
South Africa has experienced a rise in violence since the last general election, particularly of murders. Voters are demanding action and leaders are spouting rhetoric. Calls for a… Read more »
South Africa: The Right to a Dignified Death - 300 Years Later We Are Still Waiting [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Helping suffering people to end their lives remains a crime in South Africa. Now, backed by eight influential doctors, an ethicist goes to the high court with the aim of… Read more »
South Africa: Pick N Pay 'Destroyed Me' - Retailer's Original Black Franchisee Describes Eight Years of 'Torture' [analysis]
Daily Maverick
But George Senosha, who no longer has an income, says he isn't going down without a fight. Read more »
South Africa: After the Bell - Why Julius Malema Is the Mirror Image of Donald Trump [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Investors do, of course, want certainty. Obvs. What they don't want is the certainty that someone will come and grab their assets. The notion that you will certainly be hit by a… Read more »
South Africa: The EFF's Floyd Shivambu As Finance Minister Would 'Really Spook the Markets' [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Although it seems highly unlikely that the EFF deputy president will become finance minister, South Africa would take a financial knock if he did. Read more »
South Africa: Words of Warning and Sobering Reality That Must Hit Home At This Eleventh Hour [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Welcome back to Daily Maverick after our 24-hour shutdown. Read more »
South Africa: Investment As Gambling - Financial Nihilism and the Rise of Meme Stocks [analysis]
Daily Maverick
Many young people have lost faith and are turning, with alarming recklessness, to increasingly risky financial behaviour. Read more »
South Africa: Leadership, Resilience Is Behind the Success of One Rural School [analysis]
Daily Maverick
It is possible for South African schools facing huge challenges to get noteworthy results. Read more »
South Africa: SA Needs to Put Our Waste in the 'Proper' Place, Reduce the Production and Extend Its Value [analysis]
Daily Maverick
There is no 'away' to send our waste to. If it's not biodegradable and it's not being recycled, re-used or converted into energy (and most of it isn't), then it goes to landfill or… Read more »
South Africa: Job Promises for Unemployed Doctors After Kwazulu-Natal Protest [analysis]
Daily Maverick
KwaZulu-Natal's doctors seeking job posts received some hope when the provincial health department finally relented and committed to advertising new posts. Read more »
South Africa: This Week - Discussions On Basic Income in SA, Joburg Crisis Summit, and Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture [analysis]
Daily Maverick
World Haemophilia Day, a special screening of 'Tomorrow's Freedom', and Ndifuna Ukwazi's 12-week political and legal education programme kick off this week. Read more »
South Africa: South Africa Sees High Tourist Arrivals From Kenya, Zimbabwe
Capital FM
South Africa (SA) has recorded an increase in the number of tourist arrivals from Kenya and Zimbabwe,highlighting the growing intra-African tourism industry amid the removal of… Read more »
April 15
South Africa: Heavy Rains and Winds Batter KwaZulu-Natal South Coast - South African News Briefs - April 15, 2024
allAfrica
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South Africa: Widely Used HIV Drug in SA Flagged for Reports of Resistance - but Experts Say Don't Panic
spotlight
That HIV can develop resistance to the drugs used to treat it is nothing new, but results from recent studies reveal the emergence of resistance in subsets of people living with… Read more »
South Africa: Climate Change Is Causing Marine 'Coldwaves' Too, Killing Wildlife [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The effects of ocean warming are profound and well-documented. But sometimes changes in the patterns of winds and ocean currents cause seawater to suddenly cool, instead. Read more »
Africa: Reptiles in South Africa Are Under Threat - but There's Good News Too [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Media reports about the biodiversity crisis and what researchers have argued qualifies as a mass extinction event tend to focus on the big ecological effects. Melting ice sheets,… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Ramaphosa, Museveni to Discuss DR Congo Crisis
New Times
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected in Uganda on Monday, April 15, for a two-day working visit in which he will discuss the security crisis in eastern DR Congo with… Read more »
South Africa: Digital Textbooks Expand Learning for Engineering Students - South African Study [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
In the past four years it's become increasingly common for part or all of a university student's learning to happen online. This transition to digital learning platforms has… Read more »
South Africa: Members of the Commonwealth and Red Cross and Crescent to Discuss Ihl in South Africa [press release]
ICRC
Pretoria (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of the government of South Africa (DIRCO), and the… Read more »
South Africa: No Shelter for Homeless Dog Owners
GroundUp
Except perhaps for a farm in the Karoo Read more »