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Southern African countries can do better at infrastructure: what the choices might look like
31st August 2022 Countries in southern Africa are under a crushing burden brought about by a confluence of factors. These include the unprecedented growth in the... →
Load shedding a health hazard as it fuels fast-food consumption
18th July 2022 With load shedding having become a crushing everyday reality for South Africans over the past few weeks, it is not only the country’s economy that... →
ActionSA Marks Youth Day with Makhubo Family
17th June 2022 Mbuyisa Makhubo was the young man pictured carrying Hector Peterson’s body in the photograph by Sam Nzima that went around the world revealing the... →
Ex-Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency to face war and drought
By: Reuters 16th May 2022 Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on Sunday in an airport hangar protected by blast... →
Manganese mine achieves record ten-million fatality free shifts
By: Martin Creamer 4th April 2022 Assmang’s Black Rock mine, near Hotazel in the Northern Cape, has achieved ten-million fatality free shifts, a record that has taken 13 years to... →
COSATU statement on the recommendations of a 3% salary increase for Political Office Bearers
31st March 2022 The Congress of South African Trade Unions has noted with disappointment the recommendations submitted by the Independent Commission on the... →
SACP welcomes Part 1 of State Capture Report but says it would have preferred complete report
By: Thabi Shomolekae 6th January 2022 South African Communist Party General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande said on Thursday that while the SACP welcomed the submission of Part 1 of the... →
Gold doesn’t shine for women in Mali and Senegal’s mines
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th December 2021 Women have historically been key actors in artisanal mining in the indigenous Mandingo communities of south-eastern Senegal and western Mali.... →