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BLOOMBERG: Brexit challenges for Boris Johnson

You might think UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson — coping unimpressively with the Covid-19 pandemic and related disasters — has enough to worry about. But there’s also the small matter of Brexit. To remind, this involves the complete upheaval of Britain’s trading arrangements a little more than four months from…
23 Aug 2020 1PM 2 min

US joins Taiwan to mark anniversary of battle with China

Kinmen, Taiwan — Amid rising tensions with Beijing, the de facto US ambassador in Chinese-claimed Taiwan took part on Sunday for the first time in commemorations of a military clash and the last time Taiwanese forces joined battle with China on a large scale. China has stepped up military activity…
23 Aug 2020 12PM 2 min

Mediators’ meeting with Mali’s coup leaders lasts just 20 minutes

Bamako/London — A key meeting on Saturday between Mali’s coup leaders and mediators from West Africa’s regional bloc seeking a return to civilian rule ended after just 20 minutes. Tuesday’s overthrow of Mali president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been condemned abroad but celebrated by many in a country battling an…
23 Aug 2020 12PM 3 min

EDITORIAL: Costly commissions seldom get to the heart of the matter

A year after the report of the commission of inquiry into the multibillion-rand arms deal was reviewed and set aside in its entirety, nothing has happened. Almost exactly a year ago the high court in Pretoria, thanks to dogged litigation by Right2Know and Corruption Watch, struck down the report which…
23 Aug 2020 12PM 3 min

Tito Mboweni slams dismissal of Zambian central banker

SA finance minister Tito Mboweni is sharply critical of the shock dismissal by Zambian President Edgar Lungu of the country’s central bank governor, Denny Kalyalya. Mboweni, himself a former governor of the Reserve Bank, regards the independence of the central bank as sacrosanct. SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has…
23 Aug 2020 11AM 3 min

EU and Britain blame each other for slow progress on Brexit deal

Britain and the EU made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks last week, and their chief negotiators blamed each other for the stalemate as time ticks down to an end-of-year deadline. “Those who were hoping for negotiations to move swiftly forward this week will have been…
23 Aug 2020 10AM 3 min

Nehawu to continue with rolling protests over personal protective equipment

Workers in the public health-care sector will continue picketing on Monday leading up to a full-blown strike over management’s decision to freeze salaries and to draw attention to the risks its members face from Covid-19. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), SA’s third-largest public-sector union, which represents…
23 Aug 2020 10AM 3 min

Health department seeks to speed up work visas

As the state battles to tackle the shortages of skilled staff brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the government is looking to fast track the issuing of work visas to foreign health professionals and expedite their registration to allow them to practise in the country. SA has an acute shortage…
23 Aug 2020 10AM 3 min

No joy for US post official Louis DeJoy, who denies trying to thwart voting by mail

Washington — US postmaster-general Louis DeJoy said there’s been no attempt by President Donald Trump or his administration to interfere with Postal Service operations to thwart voting by mail, as he defended his management of the agency. DeJoy called allegations that cutbacks at the post office are aimed at having…
22 Aug 2020 4AM 5 min

Response to a new epidemic must not displace responses to older ones

Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, reports from the UNAids country offices in the eastern and southern African region trickle in every day on the loss of livelihoods and the resulting food insecurity and general deprivation in the region, especially among the millions of people who make a living…
22 Aug 2020 1AM 6 min

Hong Kong security law ‘safeguards rights and freedoms’

On June 30, one day before the 23rd anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, the standing committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (KHSAR). This law is now added to…
22 Aug 2020 1AM 6 min

DRC Ebola outbreak kills 43, says WHO

Goma — The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has infected 100 people as of Friday, killing 43 of them, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The latest outbreak of the virus was declared on June 1 in Mbandaka, a city of 1-million people on the…
21 Aug 2020 12PM 1 min

Russia will not allow desperately ill Alexei Navalny to be moved to Germany, critics says

Omsk — Allies of stricken Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny accused Russian authorities of thwarting his medical evacuation to Germany on Friday, saying the decision placed his life in mortal danger because the Siberian hospital treating him was under-equipped. Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and his lieutenants, is…
21 Aug 2020 11AM 3 min

Turkey discovers huge natural gas field in the Black Sea

Istanbul — President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday that Turkey has discovered its biggest ever natural gas field holding 320-billion cubic metres in the Black Sea, and more could be found as the country works to use it by as early as 2023. If the gas can be commercially extracted,…
21 Aug 2020 10AM 2 min

Saica withdraws Anoj Singh’s membership due to misconduct

Accounting watchdog, the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica), has found former Eskom CFO Anoj Singh guilty of misconduct and has withdrawn his membership. This means Singh is no longer a chartered accountant as only members of Saica are entitled to use the designation. Singh is alleged to have played…
21 Aug 2020 10AM 2 min

‘We are fed up with lack of prosecutions,’ Scopa says

Law-enforcement agencies will have to explain to parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) why the wheels of justice are turning so slowly with regard to corruption cases, chair Mkhuleko Hlengwa said on Friday. Scopa met on Friday to be briefed on the work being done, and the role played…
21 Aug 2020 9AM 2 min

Herd immunity through infection vs vaccination

Sydney — The coronavirus pandemic has brought “herd immunity” to the public consciousness, kindling hope the phenomenon can help slow or even end the outbreak. Herd immunity refers to a large portion of a community developing a degree of immunity to a virus, thereby reducing person-to-person spread. As a result,…
21 Aug 2020 9AM 3 min

Pandemic reverses caste discrimination advances

New Delhi — Millions of migrant workers made arduous journeys to their villages after India imposed the world’s largest lockdown in March. Back in the rural hinterland, many say caste discrimination is reversing even the small economic and social gains they eked out in the cities. In the village of…
21 Aug 2020 8AM 7 min

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Not sorry enough

1. Chips, it’s Trump The US has cut off Huawei’s access to vital computer chips, striking what could be a crippling blow to the Chinese tech giant. Fresh sanctions that restrict foreign semiconductor companies from selling chips developed or produced using US software or technology to Huawei, without first obtaining…
21 Aug 2020 8AM 1 min
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