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            <title>Joburg budget remains a concern, interest groups note</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The City of Johannesburg's final 2026/27 budget still fails to resolve its underlying crisis of infrastructure decline, weak financial management, rising debt and poor service delivery, despite public pressure leading to some meaningful changes in the initial draft budget. In a joint statement released on Wednesday, the Johannesburg Crisis Alliance (JCA), JoburgCAN and WaterCAN said that the budget, adopted against a backdrop of growing concern about the city's financial sustainability, lays bare the deep financial, governance and service delivery challenges confronting the municipality.]]></description>
            <author>Natasha Odendaal</author>
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            <title>Eskom sets out to appoint forensic services providers to resolve investigations backlog</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[State-owned power utility Eskom has issued an invitation to tender or request for proposals for the provision of forensic and anticorruption services to resolve a backlog of forensic investigations. While Eskom maintains internal forensic capability, the scale and specialised nature of legacy cases require additional expertise to support accelerated delivery. This project forms part of the utility’s broader efforts to strengthen governance and accelerate consequence management across the organisation.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Hostilities flare in Iran war, oil jumps with talks at a stalemate</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gulf hostilities flared again on Wednesday, with an Iranian missile attack damaging Kuwait's airport and the US military carrying out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, as diplomacy between Washington and Tehran showed little progress. The latest flare-up, which sent oil prices up more than 1%, comes with the conflict stalemated in a shaky ceasefire and the Strait of Hormuz largely closed, more than three months after initial US and Israeli strikes on Iran.]]></description>
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            <title>Malawi to repatriate citizens from South Africa amid anti-immigrant attacks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Malawi will join other countries in repatriating its nationals seeking to leave South Africa, where attacks on African migrants have been reported in parts of the country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late on Tuesday that the programme would be limited to citizens who have requested assistance, with details to be announced once logistical arrangements are finalised.]]></description>
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            <category>1. News in Review </category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>South Africa private sector contracts after four months of growth, PMI shows</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's private sector contracted in May as output and new orders fell amid higher fuel prices and uncertainty linked to the Iran war, a business survey showed on Wednesday. The S&P Global South Africa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 49.6 in May from 51.6 in April. The 50 mark separates growth from contraction.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>South Africa can become strong value-add minerals player again, PyroFuZA points out</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Look out for PyroFuZA. Those eight letters have the potential to make best use of South Africa’s natural resources and restore South Africa’s value-adding power, which, in turn, can help to foot the bill for the innovative rebuilding of this country’s economy. PyroFuZA spells out that it's possible for South Africa to put its own distinctive correct measures in place that will enable this country to, once again, become a strong player within the value-add ecosystem, amid different measures being applied at different stages of advancement so that long-term momentum is assured. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.)]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa's fiscal targets on track despite Iran war, Treasury says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa remains on track to meet its fiscal targets despite the conflict in the Middle East, its National Treasury said on Tuesday, adding it wanted to demonstrate its credibility by meeting its objectives even at times of stress. Treasury Director-General Duncan Pieterse thinks the Iran war will not derail South Africa's fiscal trajectory. He was speaking at a Citi emerging markets conference. Recent fiscal outcomes have beaten forecasts: South Africa achieved a third consecutive primary surplus for the fiscal year to end-March, of 1.1% of gross domestic product against a budget estimate of 0.9%. Relief measures rolled out in response to the Iran war are designed to be fiscally-neutral: Fuel levy relief from April to June will cost R17.2-billion, but this will be funded by the fiscal outperformance from the previous year.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
            <category>1. News in Review </category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Kganyago signals resolve to curb inflation after rate hike​</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Tuesday that the bank would bring inflation back to its 3% target, defending last week's rate hike as necessary to prevent second-round effects from the Middle East oil shock from becoming entrenched. The South African Reserve Bank raised its key repo rate by 25 basis points last Thursday, to 7%, with four out of six Monetary Policy Committee members backing the decision. South Africa's inflation climbed to 4% in April from 3.1% in March, sitting at the upper end of the central bank's target range. The SARB, which targets inflation at 3% with a 1-percentage-point tolerance band, raised its inflation forecasts to 4.4% and 3.7% for 2026 and 2027 respectively.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Iran war disruption threatening delivery of lifesaving supplies for children, UN says</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Surging global transport costs and supply chain disruptions linked to the Middle East crisis are threatening the delivery of lifesaving aid to children, the United Nations children's agency warned on Tuesday. Nearly 100 days after the outbreak of the Iran war, heightened insecurity around key Gulf shipping routes has driven up fuel prices and insurance premiums, while congestion at alternative ports has compounded disruptions, hampering aid deliveries. UN children's agency UNICEF said it was increasingly relying on air freight due to shipping delays. In the first quarter alone, the agency nearly exhausted annual contributions from logistics partners that donate charter flights, as it flew supplies into Lebanon and Gaza amid delays of up to four to six weeks. ]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>WHO says suspected Ebola cases drop to 116 after hundreds ruled out</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization said there have been 321 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo outbreak and 116 suspected cases, marking a large drop in the number of suspected cases as hundreds were ruled out after investigation.  The agency said on Tuesday there had been 48 deaths and six people had recovered in Congo. The Congolese authorities first put out the new case numbers on Monday. In Uganda there have been nine confirmed cases and one associated death, WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told reporters in Geneva. Later, Uganda's health ministry confirmed six more new cases of Ebola, bringing the total confirmed in the country so far to 15, the health ministry said on Tuesday. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Liam Jacobs apologises for ‘disgraced departure’ from DA, slams 'ANC cheerleader' PA</title>
            <link>https://www.polity.org.za/article/liam-jacobs-apologises-for-disgraced-departure-from-da-2026-06-02</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In a political turnaround, former PA member Liam Jacobs has officially returned to the DA, issuing a public apology on Tuesday for his "distasteful" and "disgraceful" departure from the official opposition last year. Jacobs, who defected to Gayton McKenzie’s PA last year, announced that he is returning to the DA not as a public representative, but as an ordinary activist. Reflecting on his exit, Jacobs expressed “deep regret” for what he believes is the harm created for DA voters, leadership, public representatives, activists, and staff by his social media commentary and sudden departure. “I left the DA in a manner that disrespected the organisation that went to great lengths to invest in my development,” Jacobs admitted. “I followed it up with statements on social media that caused great harm to the very people who extended their trust and support to me. My departure was disgraceful.”]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>S&amp;P flags Middle East oil risk for South Africa, warns low growth an outlier among peers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[S&P Global Ratings warned on Tuesday that rising oil prices from the Middle East crisis pose a growing risk to South Africa's consumer-led economy, even as the fiscal consolidation push remains broadly on track. Ravi Bhatia, director at S&P, said at a conference in Johannesburg that South Africa was “really an outlier” among peers, consistently ranking near the bottom on growth — a weakness that feeds into fiscal pressure through softer revenues and weak job creation. S&P left its South Africa ratings unchanged at BB on foreign-currency and BB+ on local on Friday. It had upgraded ratings in November, its first upward move in nearly two decades, citing falling inflation, improving growth and fiscal consolidation.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Protests over US Ebola site in Kenya kill two, court keeps block</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Kenyan court blocked on Tuesday for another three weeks a proposed US Ebola quarantine facility that has triggered protests killing two people and ordered the government to disclose its agreement with Washington. The proposed 50-bed unit on an air force base in central Kenya for Americans exposed to the virus in Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda has angered many Kenyans. They accuse the US of offloading the health risk of caring for patients. A Kenyan court last week temporarily suspended the plan in response to a lawsuit from a legal advocacy group. However, US military aircraft have continued to fly in staff and equipment in recent days, according to a US official and diplomatic sources.]]></description>
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