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R2K, Black Sash intensify fight for grant recipients

The Right 2 Know Campaign in the Western Cape will picket at social grant pay-points across Cape Town on Thursday. Right 2 Know wants to show support for the human rights group, Black Sash. Black Sash launched a Constitutional Court application, asking the South African Social Security Agency and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to ensure that beneficiaries' rights will still be protected when the current contract for paying social […]

2 March 2017

Local

Social grants provider Net1 to purchase 15% of Cell C

Electronic payments provider Net1 UEPS Technologies, which has found itself at the centre of a social grants storm in South Africa, has confirmed that it has agreed to buy a R2bn, 15% stake mobile network Cell C. Earlier this week, Blue Label Telecoms [JSE:BLU] said it reached a last-minute agreement to acquire 45% of Cell C, which is South Africa’s third largest network with about 24m users. JSE-listed Blue Label said […]

2 March 2017

Local

Family of Ekurhuleni boy urged ‘to prepare for the worst’

Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management authorities have told the family of the little boy that fell into a disused mine shaft east of Johannesburg, to prepare for the worst. Five-year-old Richard Thole fell into the shaft at Jerusalem, an informal settlement in Boskburg, on Saturday. Search and rescue operations have been temporarily suspended due to dangerous conditions. Speaking on AM Live Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services spokesperson, William Ntladi […]

2 March 2017

International News

Mugabe off to ‘medical review,’ days after turning 93

Days after celebrating his 93rd birthday in the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has flown out of the country to seek medical care in Singapore. His spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday that President Mugabe travelled to Singapore for a medical checkup. “His Excellency the President left for Singapore for a scheduled medical review. We expect him back in the country early next week,” spokesman George Charamba said. He did […]

2 March 2017

International News

Opposition points to signs of progress at Geneva talks

Ongoing Syria talks in Geneva appeared to show some signs of movement on Wednesday, as opposition negotiators said the government had been pressured by Russia to address their demands for a political transition. For seven days now, negotiations between government and opposition representatives in the Swiss city have focused almost entirely on format, in the hopes of arranging more substantive talks in later rounds. But after a two-hour closed-door session […]

2 March 2017

International News

Malaysia to cancel visa-free entry for North Koreans

Malaysia will cancel visa-free entry for North Koreans entering the country starting next week as diplomatic ties between the two countries fray further following the murder of Kim Jong-nam at the Kuala Lumpur airport. North Koreans will be required to obtain a visa as of March 6 before entering Malaysia for national security reasons, state news agency Bernama reported on Thursday, citing the deputy prime minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Malaysia […]

2 March 2017

Local

Sassa must choose a payment system urgently – Reserve Bank

Sassa needs to make a decision on its preferred system of paying out social grants to more than 17 million people, and it needs to do so urgently, the South African Reserve Bank says. The SARB presented before Parliament's portfolio committee on social development on Wednesday on its role in assisting the transfer of the grants scheme from the current service providers. SARB national payment head Tim Masela told the […]

1 March 2017

Local

Ramaphosa due in Parliament to answer questions

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday be back in the National Assembly to answer questions. He is expected to appear in the House twice in March. A draft resolution was passed on Tuesday to suspend a rule to allow the Deputy President to appear twice this month. It will be Ramaphosa's first appearance in the first quarter of Parliament in 2017. Ramaphosa is expected to answer questions ranging from […]

1 March 2017

International News

UN accuses Congolese forces of civilian killings

The UN has accused the Congolese military forces of civilian killings. In a recently published report, the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office says that at least 40 civilians were killed and 147 others wounded by law enforcement officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo Last year in several cities including the capital Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. These killings and arrests of journalists and members of civil society were committed during […]

1 March 2017

VOC

R2K, Black Sash intensify fight for grant recipients

Social grants provider Net1 to purchase 15% of Cell C

Family of Ekurhuleni boy urged ‘to prepare for the worst’

Mugabe off to ‘medical review,’ days after turning 93

Opposition points to signs of progress at Geneva talks

Malaysia to cancel visa-free entry for North Koreans

Sassa must choose a payment system urgently – Reserve Bank

Ramaphosa due in Parliament to answer questions

UN accuses Congolese forces of civilian killings

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