The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) has strongly condemned the proposed retrenchment of workers at the South African Post Office (SAPO) calling for an immediate halt to the entire process. In a statement, the PAC demanded that the government and management of the Post Office “engage in meaningful consultations…
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The Electoral Commission (IEC) has set the dates for the second and final voter registration weekend ahead of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections. General elections will be held next year in South Africa to elect a new National Assembly, as well as the Provincial Legislature in each province. These…
Kenya and India on Tuesday signed five memoranda of understanding to enhance bilateral relations. Kenyan President William Ruto said forging stronger ties with India will be instrumental in advancing Kenya’s Bottom-Up Empowerment Transformation Agenda. He said Kenya stands to gain significantly from India’s progress in technology, agro-industrial transformation, universal healthcare…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has presented its planned $1 billion facility to provide insurance to more than 40 million farmers across the continent, against what it calls “severe impacts of climate change.” The facility was widely praised by the World Food Programme (WFP), development agencies, insurance companies and the…
Cabinet will back the Competition Commission’s investigation into rand manipulation, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said on Thursday. The announcement comes after the competition authorities recently disclosed that the British multinational Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) admitted liability in the currency manipulation case and agreed to pay a R42 million…
Deadly torrential rains and floods have affected more than two million people in several areas of Somalia, with over 100 killed and 750,000 displaced from their homes, authorities and humanitarian partners said on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu. The crisis began with the start of the deyr rainy season in…
Former spokesperson of the African National Congress (ANC) and now President of ARETA, Mr. Carl Niehaus, says there is a special place in hell reserved for Henry Kissinger who died at the age of one hundred. The Former US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser passed away on Wednesday…
The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has joined the National Albinism Task Force of South Africa (NATF) in calling for the end of discrimination, hostility and violence against people with albinism. The department made the call ahead of the court appearance of a South African traditional healer…
Julius Malema is not convinced that Mdumiseni Khetha Zuma received proper legal representation, following the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court’s ruling to sentence the 36-year-old to an effective 12 years imprisonment for allegedly instigating the 2021 July unrest in KwaZulu-Natal. According to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Mr. Zuma’s conviction comes after…
President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has reiterated his position on access to markets, stressing that it is to everyone’s advantage and beneficial to all countries trading together. “Now that Africa’s liberation is complete, we need economic development and transformation. Here, we need four factors. Human resource development, infrastructure development,…