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10 Jan 23
The BRICS group of countries should expand to include more members from the Global South, including many in Africa, South Africa’s ruling party has said as the government begins its year-long...
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24 Oct 22
A fresh attempt has been made to end graft in South Africa’s institutions.
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22 Sep 22
Poor government leadership has left South Africa rife with corruption and with high poverty, crumbling infrastructure and human rights abuses, a pressure group has said.
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8 Jul 22
South Africa’s struggling state-owned power company Eskom has agreed it will give workers a 7% wage increase to end a pay dispute, but said the move will be “a struggle” to afford.
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24 May 22
A South African government body has said it does not have the money to meet union demands for a pay rise, and encouraged its staff to be grateful for being employed at all.
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17 May 22
A deal between South Africa and some of the world’s richest countries, hailed as a potential blueprint for future climate finance, is still under negotiation more than seven months after being...
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28 Apr 22
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party is reportedly looking to sell or close some of its state-owned enterprises after they were “destroyed” by a decade of corruption.
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4 Mar 22
Government officials in South Africa were paid millions of pounds in brides to award more than £100m of contracts to an outsourcing company, according to a corruption inquiry.
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25 Feb 22
South Africa has presented a 2022 budget with lower taxes and more ambitious debt targets after high commodity prices led to higher-than-expected revenue - but analysts have warned against over-...
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15 Feb 22
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is set to accelerate reforms to modernise electrical supply and broadband, in a bid to reverse record high unemployment.
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3 Feb 22
A rail subsidiary of the South African government paid out billions in contracts to companies linked to a family with close ties to former president Jacob Zuma, according to a corruption inquiry.
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27 Jan 22
South African officials failed to follow procurement rules when buying personal protective equipment at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, representing a “complete breakdown” of the system,...
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6 Jan 22
Former South African president Jacob Zuma was under “considerable influence” from private bodies during his tenure, leading to rampant corruption, according to the preliminary findings of a landmark...
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12 Nov 21
South Africa’s finance minister has signalled that he will not boost welfare spending in next year’s budget despite recognising the part inequality played in devastating riots several months ago.
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3 Nov 21
South Africa will receive $8.5bn from some of the world’s most advanced economies to help transition away from coal power and meet its climate commitments.
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6 Oct 21
South Africa’s national bank has signalled that inflation risks mean that it is likely to raise interest rates.
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24 Sep 21
Strong economic growth and higher-than-predicted revenue in recent months have been tipped to make South Africa’s fiscal goals easier to achieve.
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13 Aug 21
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has told politicians that corruption which has plagued the African National Congress poses an “existential threat”, after his predecessor Jacob Zuma was jailed...
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6 Aug 21
Tito Mboweni has stepped down as South Africa’s finance minister in the wake of severe social unrest tipped to harm the country’s economic rebound from Covid-19.
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28 Jul 21
Violent civil unrest in South Africa risks harming the economic recovery from Covid-19 and threatens medium-term growth, according to rating agency S&P Global.
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30 Jun 21
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after failing to attend a corruption inquiry, fearing “significant damage to the rule of law” if he was not...
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11 Jun 21
A former South African finance minister has slammed Jacob Zuma, president between 2009 and 2018, for leaving the country weaker after working to undermine the power of the country's finance...
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11 May 21
Vaccines should be seen as a “global public good” during the Covid-19 crisis and intellectual property rights should be waived so developing countries can afford them, South Africa’s president has...
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8 Feb 21
Many public officials in South Africa abandoned procurement procedures amid the Covid-19 crisis, investigators have found while looking into corruption allegations.
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7 Jan 21
More than one million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive in South Africa in the coming weeks, with the country seeking to inoculate its healthcare workers as they fight against the virus.