Nearly 5,000 Post Office Jobs at Risk - South African News Briefs - May 2, 2024
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May 2, 2024, 5:56 AM
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'No Electricity, No Vote', Shout Angry Limpopo Villagers
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May 2, 2024, 3:55 PM
[GroundUp] Promise Maremeni is a dressmaker. But she is losing business because she has to use a manual sewing machine instead of an electric one, because her village has been without electricity since it was established eight years ago.
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Codeine Misuse - South Africa Set to Get New Guidelines
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May 3, 2024, 4:49 AM
[spotlight] In response to high levels of codeine abuse in South Africa, health authorities have been developing a plan to track the supply of the drug from manufacturers all the way to patients. In this Spotlight feature, Jesse Copelyn explores why people get hooked on codeine, and how the new project could combat the problem.
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South Africans Are Abandoning Smallholder Farming - History and Policy Can Help Explain Why
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May 3, 2024, 4:40 AM
[The Conversation Africa] South African smallholders are abandoning farming. The decline in field cultivation is a problem, since many of these smallholder households struggle to make ends meet. If people were able to produce more of their own food this would improve their lives.
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Great White Sharks Off South Africa's Coast Are Protected By Law, but Not in Practice. Why This Needs to Change
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May 2, 2024, 12:15 PM
[The Conversation Africa] In less than eight years, white sharks in South Africa have all but disappeared from their historical hotspots in False Bay and Gansbaai, on the Western Cape coast. These areas were once known as the "white shark capital of the world" and were home to a flourishing ecotourism industry. One possible explanation for this change would be a declining white shark population.
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Mineworkers Disrupt Cosatu May Day Rally in Soweto
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May 2, 2024, 11:47 AM
[GroundUp] "What are we celebrating, when we are losing our jobs?"
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Millions Owed to Scholar Transport Providers in Eastern Cape
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May 3, 2024, 4:49 AM
[GroundUp] Total shutdown avoided after transport department promises to pay by 15 May, but disruptions reported in some areas
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Free State Stadium to Host Bafana Vs Zimbabwe FIFA World Cup Clash
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May 2, 2024, 1:39 PM
[SAFA] SAFA acting CEO Dr Thulani Ngwenya confirmed that the South African senior men's national team will return to Bloemfontein for the first time since the 2010 FIFA World Cup. They last played in the city when they beat France 2-1 in the global FIFA tournament 14 years ago.
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Workers Hold Vigil Outside Gauteng Health Department, Demanding Permanent Jobs
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May 2, 2024, 12:07 PM
[GroundUp] National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) says workers will protest daily
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Eskom Reaches Significant Milestone in Curbing Load Shedding
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May 2, 2024, 8:35 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] Minister in the Presidency for Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, says the end of load shedding is "within touching distance".
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Gauteng Social Development Head Departs Amid Corruption Allegations
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May 2, 2024, 12:08 PM
[GroundUp] Matilda Gasela headed several forensic audits despite facing allegations herself
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Elections 2024 - What the Major Political Parties Say About Water and Sanitation
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May 3, 2024, 4:49 AM
[GroundUp] We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi
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ANC Veteran Disappointed Over State Capture Leaders on Party List - South African News Briefs - May 1, 2024
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May 1, 2024, 5:54 AM
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Village Activists Take Marikana Mining Company to Court
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May 1, 2024, 12:15 PM
[GroundUp] Tharisa Mines is trying to gag us, say Oridile Kgatea and Rodney Kotsedi
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Apartheid Victims Demand Reparations
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May 1, 2024, 10:33 AM
[DW] Thirty years after the end of apartheid, dozens of South Africans have set up a protest camp outside the Constitutional Court. They are demanding reparations for human rights abuses suffered under white minority rule.
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All Systems Go for Registered Voters to Cast Ballots Abroad
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May 1, 2024, 9:00 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) says it is confident that all systems are in place for the shipment of voting materials to enable South African citizens living abroad to cast their ballots.
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Gauteng Health Department Concerned Over Rise in Teenage Pregnancies - South African News Briefs - April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024, 7:24 AM
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South Africa's Media Have Done Good Work With 30 Years of Freedom but Need More Diversity
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May 2, 2024, 4:54 AM
[The Conversation Africa] In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa's print media. He said the media's domination by middle class males from the minority white population posed the biggest threat to freedom of expression in the country. The same year, the African National Congress under his leadership adopted a media charter calling for all citizens to be empowered with the necessary information and contesting views to make informed choices...
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We Need to Reshape Fiscal Policy to Cultivate a Savings Culture in SA
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May 1, 2024, 10:51 AM
[DA] Kenya and Chile have successfully made the commendable, and replicable, transition to high-savings economies. Our government once understood the wisdom of responsible fiscal restraint. It is a period well worth revisiting.
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Boxing Legend "Rose of Soweto" Dingaan Thobela Dies
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April 30, 2024, 5:56 AM
[allAfrica] Dingaan Thobela, the revered South African boxer affectionately known as the 'Rose of Soweto', passed away at the age of 57 after a prolonged battle with illness, reports News24.
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It's All Systems Go for the Cosatu Kwazulu Natal Workers' Day Rally On 1 May 2024
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May 1, 2024, 6:18 AM
[COSATU] The Congress of South African Trade Unions in KwaZulu Natal is more than ready to host the 2024 Workers Day Celebration. This year's Workers Day celebration coincides with the celebration of the 30 years after South Africa attained its democracy in 1994. The celebration of the 1st of May is historic in our country, it is the acknowledgment of the achievements made by workers through their hard struggles prior and post the 1994 breakthrough.
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Govt Creates Better Life During 30 Years of Democracy
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May 1, 2024, 6:18 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] Over the past 30 years government has empowered its citizens by implementing programmes aimed at improving their lives for the better.
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Public Sector Hard Hit By Strike Action
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May 1, 2024, 6:18 AM
[GroundUp] In 2023 and again in 2024, about half the strikes have been in the public sector, says report
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Surprise Comeback of South Africa's Ex-President Jacob Zuma Could Challenge Ruling Party
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May 1, 2024, 4:45 AM
[RFI] South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma is running a visible and noisy campaign for May's elections against his former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), another bump on a difficult road for the historical post-apartheid party.
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New Lab a Leap Forward for Oral Health in the Eastern Cape
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April 30, 2024, 8:56 AM
[spotlight] A new lab promises to improve access to dental prostheses in the Eastern Cape, restoring thousands of smiles in the process. Dr Bulela Vava of the Public Oral Health Forum welcomes the development and argues that oral health should not be a privilege of the few.
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Amadeus - Rivalry Revisited As the Paradoxical Personality of Mozart Strikes a Major Key
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May 2, 2024, 1:07 PM
[Daily Maverick] Prodigy, musical genius, man-child, egomaniac, wise-ass. Mozart, the late-18th-century Austrian composer whose life was snuffed out in poverty at the age of 35, was also an enigma.
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Transkalahari Corridor Secretariat Cycled From Pretoria to Swakopmund
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May 2, 2024, 12:47 PM
[Namibia Economist] A group of 30 cyclists journeyed from South Africa to Namibia as part of the Trans Kalahari Corridor Secretariat's (TKCS) 20 year anniversary celebration. The group which included ten cyclists each from South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, received a heroic welcome at Swakopmund on Monday, where the journey ended.
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Health Dismisses Reports of New Covid-19 Variant
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May 1, 2024, 4:45 AM
[SAnews.gov.za] The National Department of Health says it has noted with concern old and fake news about the COVID-19 Omicron XBB variant circulating on social media.
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South Africa's Lemba People - How They View Their Jewishness Challenges Zionist Ideas That Identity Is Linked to One Homeland
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May 1, 2024, 4:37 AM
[The Conversation Africa] A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in this place. This isn't Israel. It is Mapungubwe Hill, a Unesco World Heritage Site in the north of South Africa's Limpopo province.
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Proposed Coal Mine in Mpumalanga Grasslands Back in Court
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April 30, 2024, 12:05 PM
[GroundUp] Uthaka Energy persists with plans for a colliery in Mabola Protected Environment despite six court judgments
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