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South African consumers woke up Wednesday to an increase in the price of fuel and liquefied petroleum gas as the effects of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict start being felt in distant Africa.
The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture has handed over to President Cyril Ramaphosa the third instalment of its report that details high-level corruption during the tenure of former president Jacob Zuma, APA confirmed on Wednesday.
South Africa has recorded less than 1,000 cases of new Covid-19 cases in a year, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 3,674,042 since the pandemic broke out nearly two years ago in the country, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced.
The South African government has tabled a labour migration policy that will introduce employment quotas for foreign workers and ban foreigners from starting small businesses in some sectors.
South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has pleaded not guilty to firearms charges relating to an incident in which he alleged discharged a weapon during a public event.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s budget statement he tabled in the National Assembly recently was an effort to strike a balance between reducing South Africa’s budget deficit, while responding to the challenges faced by citizens at the same time, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
South Africans have been fleeing from the Russian invasion of Ukraine where reports have emerged suggesting that Africans have been deliberately targeted for racist mistreatment and in some instances shot at, APA can report on Monday.
An unknown number of South African students studying in Ukraine are desperate to return home after thousands of Russian troops invaded the eastern European country two days ago, according to press reports here on Friday.
Russia should immediately withdraw its troops from the Ukraine and try to settle the differences between the two countries through dialogue, South Africa said on Friday.
The South African Cabinet on Thursday welcomed this year’s National Budget that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, saying the statement demonstrated government’s commitment to fiscal discipline in funding development programmes.