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1 month ago | 
fullview.co.za | S’thembile Cele |Ntando Thukwana |Bloomberg....Read More
Staff Reporter. @APPhoto. Former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal has returned home, having been discharged from the hospital on Friday, four days after he had suffered a heart attack. Tamim will continue to be monitored by specialists for the next few weeks after having undergone an angioplasty surgery on Monday. Tamim, 36, was rushed to hospital after complaining of severe chest pains while playing in a Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match on Monday.
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1 month ago | 
fullview.co.za | Ntando Thukwana |S’thembile Cele |Bloomberg....Read More
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The National Alliance (NA) president Gary van Niekerk has been reinstated as Nelson Mandela Bay’s municipality deputy mayor. Van Niekerk was suspended last December after he was charged with two counts related to cybercrime and for contravening the Municipal Finance Management Act. The council voted in favour of rescinding a December 12 decision to suspend him.
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1 month ago | 
fullview.co.za | Ntando Thukwana |S’thembile Cele |Bloomberg....Read More
By Ntando Thukwana and S’thembile Cele, Bloomberg. Keeping South Africa’s inflation target at the current range will be costly for the government, according to central bank chief Lesetja Kganyago, who has long been an advocate of lowering the objective.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Stephanie Lai |S’thembile Cele
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump froze all U.S. aid to South Africa over what he falsely claimed were rights violations stemming from a new land-expropriation law, as well as its allegations of genocide against Israel. South Africa's foreign ministry expressed "great concern that the foundational premise of this order lacks factual accuracy," in a statement Saturday.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
fullview.co.za | Loni Prinsloo |Antony Sguazzin |S’thembile Cele
By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South African prison continue to be overcrowded and the number of foreign national prisoners has raised concern in Parliament Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. Chairperson Anthea Ramolobeng said this is increasing the burden on South Africa’ prisons. Over 22,600 foreigners are filling correctional centres, and in some prisons, the number of foreign nationals outnumbers local inmates.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
fullview.co.za | Loni Prinsloo |Antony Sguazzin |S’thembile Cele
By Loni Prinsloo, Antony Sguazzin and S’thembile Cele, Bloomberg. Steelmaking tycoon Lakshmi Mittal met President Cyril Ramaphosa in Davos Wednesday as the country seeks to head off the planned closure of steel mills that are crucial to the local economy. The encounter followed an earlier caucus involving the Indian billionaire, South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, his trade counterpart Parks Tau and electricity head Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
fullview.co.za | Loni Prinsloo |Antony Sguazzin |S’thembile Cele
By Ntando Thukwana. South African inflation quickened at a slower pace than expected in December, providing room for policymakers to cut interest rates later this month. Consumer prices rose 3% from a year earlier, compared with 2.9% in the prior month, Pretoria-based Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday in a statement on its website. That was less than the 3.2% median of 15 economists’ estimates in a Bloomberg survey.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
businessmirror.com.ph | Brian Platt |S’thembile Cele |Alberto Nardelli
Flattery will only get you so far. Don’t show weakness, never grovel, and always ask the difficult questions. As world leaders left Rio de Janeiro after the last major summit of the Biden era, that was the advice for South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa among veteran diplomats familiar with Donald Trump’s approach to the annual Group of 20 gatherings.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
fullview.co.za | S’thembile Cele
Verstappen described the events of his Sunday as a “rollercoaster”. “My emotions,” he said, “have been from almost trying to destroy the garage to winning the race.”The anger came from some bad luck in qualifying, moved to Sunday morning because of heavy rain on Saturday afternoon. Red Bull sending him out late in the second session combined with the unfortunate timing of a red flag to leave him 12th, and knocked out.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
fullview.co.za | S’thembile Cele
By S’thembile Cele, Bloomberg. Goldman Sachs Group believes South Africa is unlikely to suffer the large revenue shortfall projected by its finance minister and that the nation’s path for fiscal consolidation remains credible. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana painted a bleaker-than-expected picture when he delivered a medium-term budget update last week with a slightly wider deficit.
