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            <title>On Satellites, South Africa and Starlink</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In 2019, Elon Musk launched the first 60 Starlink satellites. This was the start of a new satellite internet network. Starlink uses low-earth-orbit satellites, usually called LEO satellites. They travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 550 kilometres. By late 2021, Starlink had about 1 500 satellites in orbit and was able to offer a full commercial service, the service being a high quality internet connection via satellite reaching remote and isolated areas. Today Starlink has more than 10 000 satellites serving more than 150 countries and territories.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>South Africa's economy is adversely affected by corruption and instability in the justice system</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's long-term economic growth is constrained by corruption and instability in the justice system. Their impact increases the cost of doing business, undermines investor confidence, undermines the state's ability to provide infrastructure and public services, and lowers investor confidence. Combined, they reduce productivity, investment, employment, and fiscal sustainability. Legal and regulatory frameworks must be stable for both domestic and foreign investors. Investors seek higher ...]]></description>
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            <title>Parallel financial systems are reinventing Africa’s financial landscape</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The digital revolution has enabled African countries to broaden access to financial services for the benefit of all Africans. Smart phones have been central to this transformation. With new methods of purchasing goods and obtaining loans, African countries are also better positioned to address the challenge of national financial sovereignty. Economists are concerned that international banking systems and lending institutions, on which African nations have long depended, represent a form of ...]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>South Africans deserve answers on who advises Home Affairs on immigration and who is holding ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I have said it before, and I will say it again: “I don’t have a plan for Africa, I have a plan for South Africa.” This statement has never been about turning our backs on the African continent. It is about recognising the fundamental responsibility of any South African government: to put the interests of South Africans first, to secure our borders, to protect our economy, to create jobs and to ensure that our laws are enforced.]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
            <category>Other Opinions</category>
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            <title>Transforming South Africa’s power grid, virtually</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa’s rooftop solar and battery boom creates millions of connected energy assets, Virtual Power Plants could transform homes into a flexible power network. Thabo Molelekwa investigates if regulation can keep up with innovation. When rolling blackouts started nearly two decades ago, South Africans started investing billions of rands in rooftop solar panels, batteries and backup power, but few imagined those household systems could one day function as a single power station.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>International migrants, jobs and crime in South Africa: What do the numbers show? </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid rising hostility towards international migrants, anti-migrant protests have spread across South Africa in 2026. Some have involved intimidation, the denial of access to public services and fatal violence.  False information has flourished in this climate, and Africa Check has been tracking it live. ]]></description>
            <author>Africa  Check</author>
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            <title>The Lily Mine tragedy is South Africa's shame and injustice, revealing the dark side of 32 ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are moments in a nation's history that define its moral character. Moments that reveal whether those entrusted with power truly value the lives of ordinary citizens or whether those lives become expendable once the headlines fade. Lily Mine is one of those moments. More than ten years ago, on 5 February 2016, three innocent mineworkers, Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda disappeared when the lamp room container they were working in was swallowed by the earth after a collapse at Lily Mine near Barberton. Their bodies have never recovered. Their families have never been given closure and the opportunity to bury them with dignity.]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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            <title>The refuse crisis in Johannesburg is not a labour dispute, it is the price residents pay for ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Johannesburg's refuse collection crisis is no longer an inconvenience. It has become a public health emergency and another reminder that residents are paying the price for years of political incompetence. As Pickitup faces the prospect of an unprotected strike amid ongoing labour disputes, staff shortages and operational instability, thousands of households have been left wondering when or if their refuse will be collected. ]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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            <title>When politics takes precedence over governance, citizens pay the ultimate price</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[National Treasury's decision to withhold funding from the City of Johannesburg should concern every South African, not only those who live in the city. This is not merely an administrative dispute between Treasury and a municipality. It is an unmistakable warning that South Africa's economic engine has been brought to the brink through years of political instability, weak governance, and financial mismanagement. ]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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            <title>Beyond the build: Green jobs in SA’s renewables industry</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s renewable energy industry has created tens of thousands of jobs, but most disappear once construction ends.  South Africa’s green economy is being promoted as a major source of future employment, with an estimated 1.3-million jobs created by 2030, rising to as many as 4.3-million by 2050.]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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