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‘This is no game’: Fact-checking Songezo Zibi’s Rise Mzansi election manifesto launch speech
By: Africa Check 23rd February 2024 The newly formed Rise Mzansi party launched its election manifesto in January 2024. We fact-checked seven claims made in the document and found... →
Mashaba unveils ActionSA election posters outside symbolic Carlton Centre
By: Thabi Shomolekae 23rd February 2024 The promise of a “better life for all” that former President Nelson Mandela famously uttered at the Carlton Centre in 1994 did not become a... →
Human Settlements White Paper highlights problems with housing provision
23rd February 2024 The DA welcomes the emphasis the Draft White Paper for Human Settlements seem to place on public-private partnerships and a whole-of-society... →
Eskom eschews $2.5bn of cheap loans as climate pact flounders 
By: Bloomberg 23rd February 2024 South Africa’s State power utility has failed to tap $2.5-billion of cheap loans to build critical transmission infrastructure that would help end... →
Crunch time
By: Terence Creamer 23rd February 2024 The consequences of policy failure in electricity are so obvious there is no need to ventilate them again. Not so for gas, however, given that they... →
Israeli officials push ahead with Rafah plan without precise strategy
By: Bloomberg 22nd February 2024 Israel is determined to push ahead with a goal to move a million or more civilians from Rafah before an attack on the Hamas-held city in Gaza, even... →
Turkey to provide maritime security support to Somalia – official
By: Reuters 22nd February 2024 Turkey will provide maritime security support to Somalia to help the African country defend its territorial waters, an official from the Turkish... →
Health Minister’s assurances to unemployed doctors prove to be baseless
22nd February 2024 Earlier this month, the Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, made promises that 800 unemployed doctors would have jobs by April. The Minister’s... →
