UCT Invites Disgraced Ex-Eskom Boss for 'Ethics' Lecture - South African News Briefs - March 5, 2024
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March 5, 2024, 5:28 AM
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Three People in Hospital With Serious Burns After Dunoon Shack Fires
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March 5, 2024, 2:20 PM
[GroundUp] At least 200 people were left homeless after two fires at the weekend
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Anti-Vaxxers Thrashed in Court
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March 5, 2024, 2:15 PM
[GroundUp] Application to stop Covid vaccine slammed as "manifestly unfair", fatally defective and dismissed with costs by Pretoria High Court
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Safa Mourns the Passing of Former Bafana Defender Siphiwe Mkhonza
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March 5, 2024, 2:10 PM
[SAFA] Siphiwe's father, former Banyana Banyana coach Joseph Mkhonza, confirmed to www.Safa.net that his 44-year-old son, who also played for Kaizer Chiefs, Golden Arrows and Bloemfontein Celtic, among others, passed away at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital on Tuesday, 5 March 2024 after illness. He was a soccer analyst at the SABC at the time of his passing.
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Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee Delivers Open Lecture
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March 5, 2024, 2:22 PM
[UCT] The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) invite students and staff to attend an open lecture with Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee.
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At Least 22 People Arrested During Student Protests in Bloemfontein
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March 5, 2024, 2:19 PM
[GroundUp] Central University of Technology students blame NSFAS for delays in funding
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South African Economy Stalls Under ANC Rule
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March 5, 2024, 4:45 PM
[DA] StatsSA confirmed that South Africa barely skirted a technical recession. At 0.1% growth in the fourth quarter of 2023, our economy is at a standstill, and South Africans are becoming poorer. The status quo will prevail as long as the ANC remains in power.
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Media Alert - SADTU to Hold a Three-Day National Gender Policy Review Conference
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March 5, 2024, 4:38 PM
[COSATU] The leadership of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) will, on International Women's Day (8 March) begin a three-day gender policy conference.
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Vulnerable Populations Laughed At, Judged and Denied Services in SA Public Health Facilities
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March 5, 2024, 4:56 PM
[Daily Maverick] The third edition of the Ritshidze 'State of Healthcare for Key Populations' report highlights how key populations continue to face abuse, humiliation and denial of services when seeking care at public health facilities.
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Domestic Four-Day Series a Welcome Display of South Africa's Depth of Talent
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March 5, 2024, 4:56 PM
[Daily Maverick] Seemingly out of nowhere, Delano Potgieter put up his hand for the Lions in the four-day cricket series final to guide his side to victory.
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Ramaphosa's Turns to Hypocrisy On Cadre Deployment As Public Sector Rebellion Intensifies
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March 5, 2024, 1:48 PM
[DA] President Cyril Ramaphosa's hypocrisy on the issue of cadre deployment sunk to new depths in the newsletter he published yesterday. Over the past few weeks, Ramaphosa and his party have steadfastly defended the practice of cadre deployment, despite a mounting rebellion against this practice from across society and from inside the public sector. Since the DA's victory in the Constitutional Court forced the ANC to publish its cadre deployment records, we have been inundated by whistle-blowers...
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South Africa Has More Than 4 Million People Living With Diabetes - Study Shows Many Aren't Getting Proper Treatment
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March 5, 2024, 4:37 AM
[The Conversation Africa] Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how the body turns food into energy.
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Cape Town Pride Celebrates Equality in South Africa, Condemns Ghana's New Anti-Gay Law
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March 4, 2024, 10:35 AM
[GroundUp] "I am a proudly gay man," city councillor Rob Quintas tells crowd
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Ex-President Mbeki Denies Apartheid Prosecution Interference - South African News Briefs - March 4, 2024
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March 4, 2024, 5:39 AM
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Cape Town Cracks Down On Construction Mafias, but Violence and Extortion Persist
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March 5, 2024, 6:04 AM
[Daily Maverick] In 2024, gangs of extortionists have persisted in destabilising construction projects, but the metro says efforts to clamp down are seeing results.
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Office of the Speaker Denies Corruption Allegations Against Speaker
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March 4, 2024, 10:35 AM
[Parliament of South Africa] The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula categorically denies any involvement in alleged corrupt activities pertaining to her tenure as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. She expressed deep concern about the allegations, including a purported affidavit by one of the department's former service providers, all of which she only learned about through the Sunday Times.
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Regional Military Leaders Meet in Eastern DRC to Coordinate Strategy Against M23 Rebels
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March 4, 2024, 7:37 AM
[Independent (Kampala)] Kinshasa, DRC -- Stability hangs in the balance in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where military leaders from five regional countries have been meeting for days to devise a coordinated military strategy to end hostilities that risk escalating into a regional conflict.
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Big Companies, Like Nestlé, Are Funding Health Research in South Africa - Why This Is Wrong
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March 4, 2024, 6:58 AM
[The Conversation Africa] In 2021, the director of the African Research University Alliance Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of Pretoria was appointed to the board of the transnational food corporation Nestlé.
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Hawks Arrest a Police Constable for Acts of Corruption
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March 4, 2024, 2:52 PM
[SAPS] The Serious Corruption Investigation and Priority Crime Management Centre teams of the Hawks based in George in co-operation with the Public Order Police have on 04 March 2024 arrested a 33 year old police Constable from Kwanokuthula police station. The Constable who worked as a detective but is currently at visible policing was arrested on charges of corruption, fraud, forgery, theft and obstructing the administration of justice.
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Yoliswa Dwane, Education Activist Who Condemned John Hlophe, Is Remembered At UCT Event
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March 4, 2024, 10:35 AM
[GroundUp] She "dedicated her life to advancing social justice" but died "too young, too early"
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After 25 Years, 81-Year-Old Mthatha Widow Finally Gets an RDP House
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March 4, 2024, 10:35 AM
[GroundUp] "I don't have much but I'm happy for a decent house," says Ndenzeni Njwenene
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After Mortar Fire Tragedy, Two SANDF Soldiers Deployed in DRC Die in Apparent Murder-Suicide
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March 4, 2024, 7:23 AM
[Daily Maverick] Just two weeks after two South African soldiers were killed by mortar fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two more SA soldiers died in an apparent murder-suicide in the central African nation.
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We Are Privileged to Live in a Flourishing, Messy, Raucous Democracy - Don't Squander Your Vote
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March 4, 2024, 7:29 AM
[Daily Maverick] Relatively unusual in Africa and large swathes of the world, we are free to choose whom we want to represent us, free to associate with whom we want, and to believe and say what we want. Don't waste it.
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Where Have Protest Songs Gone in This New Time of Struggle?
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March 4, 2024, 7:28 AM
[Daily Maverick] Throughout the history of struggle, song has been what generations of indentured and persecuted peoples have turned to as a salve that soothes a weary spirit, coaxing it to fight another day.
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Showdown Looms Over ANC's Poll Lists After Chief Justice Zondo Enters the Fray
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March 5, 2024, 10:26 AM
[Daily Maverick] A battle in the ANC over whether to give an election thumbs-down to cadres implicated in corruption and misconduct is likely to come to a head on Monday, 4 March.
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If Zuma's Mk Makes an Impact in Mpumalanga and Gauteng, ANC-IFP-DA Coalition Will Be Necessary
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March 5, 2024, 10:26 AM
[Daily Maverick] Last year's Ipsos poll suggests that the former president's Lazarus moment with the uMkhonto Wesizwe party adds to the African National Congress's woes, but is not the cause of them.
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Policy to Improve Water, Sanitation Services On Privately-Owned Land
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March 4, 2024, 7:41 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu has launched a landmark policy aimed at improving the delivery of water and sanitation services on privately-owned land.
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IEC Campaign to Help Youth Participate in Democracy
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March 4, 2024, 7:38 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) will on Tuesday launch its annual national Civic and Democracy Education Tertiary Institutions campaign to improve the youth's understanding of and participation in the country's democratic processes.
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Police Committed to Finding Joslin Smith
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March 4, 2024, 7:38 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] The South African Police Service (SAPS) has assured the community of Diazville in the Western Cape, where Joslin Smith went missing, that they remain committed to finding the six-year-old and reuniting her with her family.
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Textile Artist Lizette Chirrime Launches Fashion Line in Cape Town
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March 1, 2024, 11:15 AM
[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Renowned Mozambican abstract textile artist Lizette Chirrime is showing her first artistic fashion line in Cape Town, South Africa, as the first presentation by Art Africa of their Community Residency program.
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