
Rachel Savage
South Africa Correspondent at The Guardian
Southern Africa Correspondent @Guardian | Past: @Reuters, @Openly, @TheEconomist in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi & London | 🏳️🌈
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage
Zimbabwe has started to make compensation payments to former white farm owners, 25 years after Robert Mugabe’s government began confiscating land. The government paid $3.1m (£2.3m) to a “first batch” of 378 farms, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Wednesday, the first payout under a 2020 agreement to pay $3.5bn in compensation.
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Rachel Savage |Majirata Latela
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2 weeks ago |
msn.com | Rachel Savage |Majirata Latela
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Rachel Savage
The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesotho’s garment workers feared for their jobs. Last year, Lesotho sent about 20% of its $1.1bn (£845m) of exports to the US, most of it clothing, as well as diamonds, under a continent-wide trade agreement meant to help African countries’ development via tariff-free exports.
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4 weeks ago |
msn.com | Daniel Boffey |Rachel Savage
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