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            <title>Mass shootings show the face of South African murder is changing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On a recent Saturday night, a minibus taxi drew up to a tavern in the gold-mining town of Carletonville west of Johannesburg. Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles alighted from the vehicle before gunning down patrons. Eighteen people died. “They entered the main entrance of the tavern and started shooting randomly,” said Mfuneko Dyosini, adding that two colleagues from the gold mine he works at were killed in the massacre. “They all died on the spot.” Just hours after the September 26 attack another 10 people were shot dead at an entertainment venue near Cape Town. Days earlier gunmen stormed a house in the coastal city of Durban, killing 11. While South Africa has long struggled with one of the world’s highest homicide rates, the nature of murder in the country is changing. While most of those killed die at the hands of people they know, an increasing number are being killed in mass shootings linked to competition among criminals as organised crime becomes increasingly entrenched in the economy.]]></description>
            <author>  Bloomberg</author>
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            <title>South Africa risks leaving much manganese value unrealised if logistics issues persist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Manganese Producers Consortium (MPC), which represents producers that account for 60% of South Africa’s manganese ore exports, does not direct individual producers on the corridors or export routes they use. Those decisions reflect each producer’s specific operational, commercial, customer and logistics requirements, and it is therefore not the MPC’s remit to comment on individual routing choices.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>MANGANESE LOGISTICS</category>
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            <title>South African food inflation rose in August, ending six months of decline</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation (hereafter to be referred to simply as food inflation, for short) rose in both year-on-year and month-on-month terms in August, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has reported, in its latest Food Inflation Brief. In year-on-year terms, food inflation in August was up 1.1% (as against a 0.9% increase in July), while the month-on-month figure was 0.1% (compared with -0.2% deflation in July). However, year-on-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) headline inflation in August was 4.4% (up from 4.3% in July). Month-on-month CPI headline inflation in August was 0%, which was a decrease over the July figure of 0.2%.]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>Franz Ruch appointed seventh MPC member</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Economist Franz Ruch has been appointed as an adviser to the governors of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), effective October 1. As part of the appointment, he will serve as the seventh member of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Ruch joins the SARB from global financial institution the World Bank, where he served as a senior economist and led and contributed to research, technical analysis and publications, including the World Bank’s ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Eskom extends assistance timeframe for grid-tied solar installation registrations amid ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[State-owned power utility Eskom says it will extend its waiver of registration-related charges beyond September 30 for eligible customer-owned solar generation systems of up to 50 kVA connected directly to its distribution network. The utility highlights that the extension gives qualifying Eskom direct residential customers additional time to register their grid-connected rooftop solar installations without paying Eskom’s registration-related charges, while supporting the safe, reliable and efficient integration of customer generated electricity into the national grid.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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            <title>Major development banks launch new guidelines to capture, and boost, cash mobilisation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A group of 30 multilateral development banks and finance institutions is launching new joint methodologies that aim to accurately measure, and eventually increase, the amount of capital they funnel to emerging markets. The methodologies, launched on Thursday, are the latest in a years-long effort backed by the G20 to boost development banks' capital mobilisation.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>Catalytic power of platinum, palladium being eyed for drones</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The catalytic properties of platinum and palladium are being researched and developed as a potential source of significant upliftment for drones. The higher energy density that platinum and palladium can provide is being viewed as an extender of operating time, increased payload capacity and improved performance.]]></description>
            <author>Martin Creamer</author>
            <category>PLATINUM GROUP METALS</category>
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            <title>ActionSA welcomes IEC opposition to ‘hypocritical’ DA electoral court challenge</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ActionSA has welcomed the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa’s answering affidavit opposing an urgent DA Electoral Court challenge, arguing that it would disrupt the entire election process. ActionSA believes the filing affirms that the DA's application is “opportunistic, hypocritical, and frivolous”. The legal row stems from an application launched by the DA in the Electoral Court against ActionSA, the EFF, the MKP, and the GOOD party, in which the DA accused them of deliberately submitting proportional representation lists containing only a single name to hide candidate choices from voters, and allegedly manipulating legal provisions to supplement lists after votes are counted.]]></description>
            <author>Thabi  Shomolekae</author>
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