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‘Survival at any cost’: Myanmar generals move to cement power

INTERNATIONAL Failing to subdue resistance across Myanmar, military government chief Min Aung Hlaing is resorting to increasingly desperate measures to cling to power, firing senior ministers and military officers, and purging business cronies. The heads of the navy and air force are among those who have lost their positions, as Min Aung Hlaing has sought to consolidate his position amid continued armed resistance to his rule — including with ethnic […]

today17 August 2022

Local

Minister’s salary docked for 3 months for lifting ANC members on SAAF jet

Minister of Defence, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has been issued with a formal warning from President Cyril Ramaphosa after giving ANC members a ‘lift’ to Zimbabwe on a SAAF jet. The minister’s salary will also be docked as part of her punishment. It is unknown how much of her salary will be docked. Starting from November, 1, Mapisa-Nqakula’s salary will be “sacrificed” to the coronavirus Solidarity Fund for the next three months, […]

today29 September 2020

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