🇿🇦 NEWSFLASH: Steenhuisen launches voluntary foot-and-mouth
South Africa has signalled a significant shift in livestock disease management with the launch of a voluntary foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control sch...
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🇿🇦 OUR CITY NEWS: By numbers — how Joburg’s essential services
Johannesburg, South Africa's economic engine, faces a critical infrastructure breakdown that threatens both local operations and foreign investment co...
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🇿🇦 Homes are being stolen in plain sight
South Africa's residential property market, long viewed as an attractive entry point for European capital seeking African exposure, faces a systemic a...
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🇿🇦 'Kusile is one of the most reliable stations in Eskom fleet'
South Africa's chronic electricity shortage—which has paralyzed economic growth and deterred foreign investment for nearly a decade—appears to be ente...
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🇿🇦 COST OF LIVING CRUNCH: Food or paraffin? SA’s poorest
South Africa's energy affordability crisis has reached a breaking point. In a single month, paraffin prices more than doubled, forcing millions of the...
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🇿🇦 SAA Group CEO John Lamola resigns
South African Airways (SAA) finds itself at another critical inflection point following the resignation of Group CEO John Lamola, effective end of Oct...
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🇿🇦 South African rand slips in early trade; US-Iran talks in
The South African rand weakened against major currencies in early trading this week, extending a pattern of volatility that reflects both domestic eco...
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🇿🇦 INDUSTRIAL RESCUE: Eskom the unlikely winner in jobs-saving
South Africa's chronic electricity crisis has produced an unexpected silver lining: state-owned power utility Eskom has negotiated medium-term power s...
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🇿🇦 Fuel surcharge concerns as industry warns of under-recovery
South Africa's transport and logistics sector is facing a critical juncture as fuel surcharges spiral beyond government-regulated price structures, cr...
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🇿🇦 Outcry over state of abandoned police station in
The discovery of an illegally occupied and severely deteriorated police station in Carletonville, South Africa, has exposed a systemic governance fail...
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🇿🇦 ENERGY IMPASSE: 12,000 jobs in limbo as ferroalloys-Eskom
** South Africa's ferroalloys sector faces an existential crisis as negotiations between major producers and state-owned utility Eskom have stalled, ...
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s Youth Crisis Meets Action: Vaal EmpowaYouth
South Africa faces one of the world's most acute youth employment crises. With official unemployment among 15–24-year-olds standing at 41% nationally ...
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🇿🇦 South Africa slips in global investment rankings as
South Africa's position in global investment rankings has deteriorated significantly, reflecting a confluence of structural challenges that are reshap...
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🇿🇦 SARS freezes assets in corruption crackdown
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has moved decisively to freeze assets belonging to two former officials implicated in fraud and misconduct, f...
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🇿🇦 Traffic gridlock on N3 as truckers stage protest in
The N3 freeway between Johannesburg and Durban ground to a halt on Friday as truckers staged a coordinated protest, blocking both directions of Africa...
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🇿🇦 Suspended TMDP boss Umashi Dhlamini to testify before
The Madlanga Commission's investigation into tender irregularities at the Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) represents a critical moment f...
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🇿🇦 Beating rampant cybercrime in Africa
Africa's digital economy is expanding faster than its security infrastructure can protect it. As European entrepreneurs scale operations across the co...
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🇿🇦 City crumbles but manager bags millions
The Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality represents a cautionary tale of institutional decay in South Africa's urban governance—one with direc...
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🇿🇦 “You don’t get what you deserve; you get what you negotiate”
The global order is fracturing. As the United States faces rivals in China and Russia, as the European Union consolidates its strategic autonomy, and ...
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🇿🇦 New bill proposes jail time for exposing whistleblowers
South Africa has unveiled legislation that represents a watershed moment in the country's fight against institutional corruption. The Protected Disclo...
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