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            <title>Operation Vulindlela Q1 2026 progress report</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Operation Vulindlela (OV) Phase II is a joint initiative of the Presidency and National Treasury to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms to achieve more rapid and inclusive economic growth, improve service delivery, and strengthen state capability. This progress report provides an update on implementation during the period since April 2026, highlighting key milestones achieved across the seven reform focus areas. ]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
            <category>African Politics</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in South Africa improved modestly to 1.1% in 2025, up from 0.5% in 2024, thanks to recovery in agriculture and horticulture, expansion in finance, real estate and business services, trade, catering, and accommodation. GDP growth is projected to remain subdued at 1.2% in 2026 due to increased global risks and supply the impact of shock on energy and food prices because of the Middle East conflict. Domestic risks include persistent infrastructure deficits, ongoing electricity and water supply problems, inefficiencies in freight rail and port operations, local government governance failures, and fiscal vulnerabilities stemming from state-owned enterprise (SOE) bailouts.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The year 2025 was a defining one for UNCTAD. It was the year of our sixteenth ministerial-level conference, the first held in Geneva since our founding in 1964, and the year our member States adopted the Geneva Consensus, a renewed road map for our work at a time of extraordinary global change. It was also a year of widespread shocks. Tariff volatility reshaped world trade. Investment flows to developing countries weakened. Debt burdens grew heavier. Aid flows declined. For the most vulnerable economies - the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, small island developing States, these pressures compounded one another, making the path to structural transformation steeper than ever. Each of these shocks demanded a response across our three pillars of work: in our research and analysis, in our intergovernmental consensus-building and, on the ground, in our technical cooperation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The newly released 2026 African Youth Survey reveals a massive economic and political divide: while youth optimism across Africa has bounced back to its highest level since the pandemic, South Africa’s youth feel completely left behind. Interviewing nearly 5 000 young Africans across 16 countries, the survey serves as a stark warning to South African policymakers and business leaders. While young people in countries like Ghana, Zambia, and Ethiopia are expressing renewed economic confidence and Pan-African optimism, South Africa’s youth are exhausted by the cost of living and are demanding urgent action on jobs and corruption.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The National Water Action Plan (NWAP) sets out a focused, programmatic series of actions to ensure a reliable supply of quality water to all South Africans, aiming to address the root causes of the water supply challenges in many municipalities. The Plan outlines strategic interventions to address the water crisis over the short, medium and long term. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/the Commission) has released its investigative report into wastewater infrastructure failures and the contamination of rivers, estuaries and coastal waters in selected areas of Kouga Local Municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality and Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality. The investigation followed complaints, stakeholder representations and recurring public reports concerning sewage spills, failing wastewater infrastructure and risks to rivers and beaches. The Commission commissioned an accredited laboratory to conduct independent sampling, considered municipal monitoring data and oversight findings, inspected the available evidence and afforded affected municipalities an opportunity to comment on the provisional report.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Manufacturing Africa (MA) has delivered at scale as a catalytic development programme. Since its launch in September 2019, MA data shows the programme has mobilised nearly £2.2-billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and supported approximately 150 000 direct and indirect jobs. Out of 266 companies supported at the time of this study, 175 companies of which have completed MA’s support, 55 have successfully raised investment, with a deal closure rate exceeding 30%. This compares favourably to ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[This outcome note details the reflection, discussion and learning that were generated in a series of workshops, funded by the Council for British Research in the Levant, that sought to bring together stakeholders from a wide range of organisations led by and supporting refugees. It aims to ensure that research on refugee camp histories engages with contemporary issues in humanitarian practice, and informs humanitarian policy and practice on refugee camps.]]></description>
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            <title>Building the Gaza Strip Anew: Recovery Needs and Priorities, Palestinian Vision and Ownership </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This research provides a clear and grounded vision for building the Gaza Strip anew in a way that is just, sustainable and within a unified national approach (One Palestine). The framework sets out a viable path, not by recreating a physical territory alone, but by supporting Palestinians to restore family life, communities, institutions, livelihoods and histories, anchored in their inalienable right to self-determination. The conclusions, drawn from years of Palestinian and international agency experience in responding to war, blockade and deprivation in Palestine, are straightforward: any credible recovery framework must be Palestinian-owned, rights-based, reparations-oriented, accountable and anchored in an approach that links Gaza’s recovery to the unity of the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), including the West Bank and East Jerusalem.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global investment is rising again. But it's becoming more concentrated, more selective and less accessible to many developing countries. The recovery remains fragile. Growth is concentrated in a small number of economies and in capital- and technology-intensive sectors.]]></description>
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