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Our country is burning. The latest fire at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Tshwane, so shortly after the Parliamentary building in Cape Town was gutted must surely raise some red flags. Although not a National Key Point, Waterkloof, which became part of the mainstream narrative after a plane of guests landed there for a Gupta family wedding in …

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Never mind the matrics big moment on Thursday evening, for as basic education minister Angie Motshekga made her 2021 matric results announcement, the presidency released a bombshell statement. The statement read that President Ramaphosa had “admonished” his tourism minister Lindiwe Sisulu for her opinion piece published in early January where she criticised our judges and …

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Rising inflation globally to multi-year highs is becoming the biggest worry in the risk cocktail with the Covid-19 pandemic and rising interest rates. Record food and energy costs have fuelled local inflation to 5.9% in December, a level last seen on 2017; in the US inflation accelerated to its fastest pace since 1982; in Britain the rate of …

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Hospitalisations and deaths due to Covid-19 may be on the decline but a study by the University of Pretoria shows that new mutations of the virus could occur after some lions and pumas were infected by humans at a zoo in Pretoria. Bloomberg reports that “new variants could emerge from animal reservoirs of the disease” …

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The world’s ten richest men, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and Bill Gates more than doubled their wealth from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion during the first two years of the pandemic amid a jump in the value of everything from stock prices to crypto and commodities. The latest Oxfam report, aptly titled Inequality …

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By the end of December 2021, government had hoped to reach its target of having 70% of the population vaccinated against the coronavirus but that has not happened says health minister Joe Phaahla. The minister said mandatory vaccination discussions were ongoing within government and an announcement on a decision would be made shortly. Phaahla says …

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Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe says he’s sticking with coal power for now because a full-scale transition away from coal to renewables would cause job loss, drive up electricity costs and damage the economy. Manatashe delivered the keynote address at an energy summit gala dinner on Thursday evening, hosted by the South African Youth Economic Council. …

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Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is sticking by her controversial opinion piece published over the weekend where she attacked the constitution and the judiciary, questioning how a constitution lauded all over the world had failed to lift ordinary South Africans out of poverty. Sisulu said she stood by what she wrote in the piece and said …

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Johannesburg residents can’t catch a break with rising electricity costs and fixed fees causing immense strain on the average person’s purse strings. Before you’ve even bought your electricity for the month, you’ll have to fork out a total of R825 for a network charge and capacity charge. When you compare the average monthly spend of …

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South African Airways management will implement internal investigations and disciplinary processes to dig into the airline’s bleak past and rid itself of the forces that finally brought the airline to its knees in 2020 and ceased operations. The interim SAA board made the announcement following the findings of the first part of the State Capture …

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