R2K, Black Sash intensify fight for grant recipients

The Right 2 Know Campaign in the Western Cape will picket at social grant pay-points across Cape Town on Thursday. Right 2 Know wants to show support for the human rights group, Black Sash. Black Sash launched a Constitutional Court application, asking the South African Social Security Agency and Social[…]

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Social grants provider Net1 to purchase 15% of Cell C

Electronic payments provider Net1 UEPS Technologies, which has found itself at the centre of a social grants storm in South Africa, has confirmed that it has agreed to buy a R2bn, 15% stake mobile network Cell C. Earlier this week, Blue Label Telecoms [JSE:BLU] said it reached a last-minute agreement to[…]

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Family of Ekurhuleni boy urged ‘to prepare for the worst’

Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management authorities have told the family of the little boy that fell into a disused mine shaft east of Johannesburg, to prepare for the worst. Five-year-old Richard Thole fell into the shaft at Jerusalem, an informal settlement in Boskburg, on Saturday. Search and rescue operations have[…]

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Opposition points to signs of progress at Geneva talks

Ongoing Syria talks in Geneva appeared to show some signs of movement on Wednesday, as opposition negotiators said the government had been pressured by Russia to address their demands for a political transition. For seven days now, negotiations between government and opposition representatives in the Swiss city have focused almost[…]

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Ramaphosa due in Parliament to answer questions

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday be back in the National Assembly to answer questions. He is expected to appear in the House twice in March. A draft resolution was passed on Tuesday to suspend a rule to allow the Deputy President to appear twice this month. It will[…]

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UN accuses Congolese forces of civilian killings

The UN has accused the Congolese military forces of civilian killings. In a recently published report, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office says that at least 40 civilians were killed and 147 others wounded by law enforcement officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo Last year in several cities[…]

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