EskomSePush Now Tracks Water Outages Too! - South African News Briefs - March 25, 2024
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March 25, 2024, 5:41 AM
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Rural Schools in South Africa Can Produce Good Exam Results Too - Study Shows What's Behind One Success Story
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March 25, 2024, 2:31 PM
[The Conversation Africa] Each weekday, hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers in South Africa's rural areas (which make up just over 31% of the country's total area) make the journey to school. It's often difficult. Poor road networks and a lack of easy access to transport make just getting to and from school a challenge.
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Beating a Thousand Drums for Palestine
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March 25, 2024, 12:00 PM
[GroundUp] This year's Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival focused on the war in Gaza
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Progress Made At Troublesome Power Stations
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March 25, 2024, 1:56 PM
[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom Group Executive for Generation, Bheki Nxumalo, says although challenges continue, at least five power stations identified for attention and intervention are beginning to show improvement.
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Cape Town School in the Dark Because It Owes Thousands to Eskom
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March 25, 2024, 11:24 AM
[GroundUp] A teacher at Vergenoegd Primary in Delft, Cape Town, says they discovered that the bursar office missed payments from August 2023
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New Generation Capacity Remains in Focus
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March 25, 2024, 12:38 PM
[SAnews.gov.za] Minister in the Presidency for Electricity Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says as government and Eskom continue to resolve challenges at the power utility, government is also seized with introducing new generation capacity from renewable sources to ensure energy security into the future.
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President Ramaphosa to Address 12th Proudly SA Localisation Dinner
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March 25, 2024, 12:37 PM
[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday deliver a keynote address at the Localisation Dinner at the conclusion of the 12th Annual Buy Local Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Gauteng.
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SA Based Zimbabwean Man Commits Suicide Over 'Mjolo' Live On Facebook
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March 25, 2024, 9:24 AM
[New Zimbabwe] A ZIMBABWEAN man based in South Africa committed suicide at the weekend live on Facebook after his girlfriend allegedly cheated on him.
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Which Zuma Is the Right Zuma for Me?
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March 25, 2024, 6:00 AM
[Daily Maverick] We have been blessed with not one, but two Zumas to possibly lead us after the elections. One nation, two Spears! What a time to be alive?!?!
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Policy Dialogue to Place GBVF Under the Spotlight
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March 25, 2024, 12:39 PM
[SAnews.gov.za] The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will this week host a policy dialogue on the prevention of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF).
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Call to Transform the Biodiversity Sector
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March 25, 2024, 12:36 PM
[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy has called for the urgent transformation of the biodiversity sector.
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Elections 2024 - How People With Disabilities Can Vote
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March 25, 2024, 5:08 PM
[GroundUp] There are various ways but remember to apply in time for a special vote if you need one
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Fight Against TB Gets $94 Million Boost
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March 25, 2024, 5:21 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa's ongoing efforts to respond to Tuberculosis (TB) have been strengthened with funding of $94 million for the next five years.
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SA Parliament's Motion On Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Gains Significant Support Despite Falling Short in Ipu Assembly Vote
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March 25, 2024, 9:42 AM
[Parliament of South Africa] Leader of the South African Parliamentary delegation, Ms. Sylvia Lucas, has addressed the 148th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), advocating for the inclusion of its critical motion as an emergency item. The motion's aim was to address the pressing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and underscore the importance of international action in response to the situation.
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Embassy Staff, Students Confirmed Safe After Attack in Russia
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March 25, 2024, 5:21 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has confirmed that South African embassy staff and students who are based in Russia are safe following a terrorist attack at Moscow's Crocus City Hall.
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Parents Who Believe Their Children Can Have a Better Future Are More Likely to Read and Play With Them - South African Study
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March 25, 2024, 4:40 AM
[The Conversation Africa] Every day, a small group of women make their way through the community of Sweetwaters, near the South African city of Pietermaritzburg, with bags of toys and books. They work as home mentors supporting families who signed up for an early childhood development intervention. They swap puzzles and stories and provide resourceful activities for children and caregivers. Even the older siblings often sit and join the stories and games.
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To End TB, Invest in Drug Discovery In and For Africa
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March 22, 2024, 7:49 AM
[allAfrica] One hundred and forty-two years after its discovery, Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global public health problem. Despite being preventable and curable, 1.3 million people died from TB in 2022, 424,000 of them in Africa and 54,200 of them in South Africa alone. Statistically, that means one life was lost to TB every 10 minutes in South Africa during that period. It is noteworthy that TB caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the world's leading cause of death from an infec...
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Cape Flats Safety Forum Calls for Anti-Gang Strategy - South African News Briefs - March 22, 2024
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March 22, 2024, 5:35 AM
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Medical Science Has Made Great Strides in Fighting TB, but Reducing Poverty Is the Best Way to End This Disease
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March 25, 2024, 4:40 AM
[The Conversation Africa] Every year, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis. Even though the disease is both preventable and curable, it kills 1.5 million people each year, making it the world's deadliest infectious disease. Over 25% of these deaths occur in African countries. The World Health Organization has developed a strategy to reduce TB deaths by 95% by 2035. It's a monumental task. But, global health and infectious disease specialist Tom Nyirenda tells health editor Nadine Dreyer,...
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MSF Calls for Decentralisation of Life-Saving DR-TB Services in Rural Setting
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March 22, 2024, 10:18 AM
[MSF] An evaluation report released today by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charts progress towards decentralizing services for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal's King Cetshwayo District (KCD), in line with the country's 2011 DR-TB decentralization policy.
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Disgraced Steinhoff Boss Markus Jooste Reportedly Shoots Himself
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March 22, 2024, 4:52 AM
[Daily Maverick] Disgraced former chief executive of Steinhof Markus Jooste has reportedly shot himself just more than 24 hours after the Financial Sector Conduct Authority revealed that it was fining him a whopping R475-million and that it planned to pursue a criminal case.
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Mapisa-Nqakula Files Court Papers to Interdict Possible Arrest
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March 22, 2024, 9:51 AM
[Daily Maverick] Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the National Assembly speaker on special leave, has filed court papers to interdict the National Director of Public Prosecution Shamila Batohi, Police Minister Bheki Cele and investigators from arresting her, according to court papers Daily Maverick has seen.
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DA Tables a Formal Motion of No Confidence in Mapisa-Nqakula
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March 22, 2024, 8:07 AM
[DA] Note to editors: Please find attached a soundbite by Siviwe Gwarube MP.
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Small-Scale Fishers Threaten to Take Government to Court
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March 22, 2024, 6:52 AM
[GroundUp] Unhappiness over fisheries department's boat allocations
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Disgraced, Departed - the Financial Sector Conduct Authority Case Against Markus Jooste
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March 22, 2024, 4:56 AM
[Daily Maverick] The Financial Sector Conduct Authority had fined Markus Jooste, the late former CEO of Steinhoff, R475m and intended to lay criminal charges against him for contravening sections 81A and B of the Financial Markets Act.
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Police Launch Manhunt After Security Officer Shot and Wounded His Colleague in Bela Bela
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March 22, 2024, 5:29 AM
[SAPS] The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Bela-Bela has launched an intensive manhunt following an incident in which a security officer allegedly shot and wounded a colleague. The incident occurred on Thursday, 21 March 2024, at about 12:30 on a farm belonging to the Church, at Radium, a few kilometres outside Bela-Bela town.
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This Is How President Ramaphosa Got to the 25% Figure of Progress in Land Reform in South Africa
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March 22, 2024, 4:50 AM
[The Conversation Africa] Nearly three decades into democracy, land reform remains central to South Africa's transformation policies and agricultural policy.
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Finance Minister to Determine NHI Funding After Bill Signing - South African News Briefs - March 21, 2024
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March 21, 2024, 5:22 AM
[allAfrica] Finance Minister to Determine NHI Funding After Bill Signing
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Three Suspected Hitmen Fatally Wounded in Shootout With Police
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March 22, 2024, 5:29 AM
[SAPS] DURBAN -- Three suspected hitmen were shot and fatally wounded when they started a gunfight with police in Eshowe on Thursday afternoon, 21 March 2024.
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Oxfam Accuses Rich Corporations of 'Grabbing' Water From Global South
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March 22, 2024, 4:56 AM
[VOA] London -- As the United Nations observes World Water Day on Friday, there is a growing risk of conflict over water resources as climate change takes hold, the international body said.
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