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2,274 signals for Political · South Africa

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

The financially under-pressure Msunduzi Local Municipality, whose ability to remain a going concern has been questioned by the Auditor-General (AG), flew 16 officials to Cape Town to appear before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa).

3.1/10·News24 (South Africa)·Cape Town, Western Cape

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

Former Democratic US president Joe Biden sued the US Department ‌of Justice on Tuesday, seeking to bar the ⁠release of audio recordings and transcripts of private conversations with his ⁠biographer in 2016 and 2017.

3.1/10·News24 (South Africa)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

[263Chat] The government says local companies must improve product quality and increase the use of domestic materials if the country is to fully benefit from trade opportunities under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

3.1/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

[This Day] The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in its new report, themed: 'Financing Women's Digital Entrepreneurship: A Pathway to Closing Africa's Economic Gender Gap' has revealed that women's economic participation in Africa has fallen 0.6 percentage points below 2022 levels, extending the region's timeline to reach economic parity from 120 years to approximately 170 years.

3.1/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

[This Day] The federal government yesterday disclosed plan to set up a new aircraft leasing firm with a sovereign guarantee while taking only a small equity stake.

3.1/10·AllAfrica (Latest Headlines)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

May 27 (Reuters) - California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8-billion fund for victims of alleged political “weaponisation,” the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇳🇬Nigeria 🇿🇦South Africa 🇳🇪Niger34d ago

The federal government is content to drag its feet on an agreed date for the evacuation of Nigerians willing to read more Nigeria dilly-dallies as other African nations evacuate citizens from South Africa

3.1/10·Business Day Nigeria

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PoliticalCrisis🇿🇦South Africa 🇬🇭Ghana34d ago

Fearing xenophobic violence, nearly 300 Ghanaians return home from South Africa on government-organised flights, highlighting growing tensions and disputes over their legal status.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

Investec is going hunting in the affluent market as it looks to more than double its South African private banking client base by 2030, turning what has traditionally been a high-net-worth stronghold into a broader banking, wealth and insurance machine.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past seven days.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

While the South African government has condemned the most recent wave of xenophobia, this was not accompanied by what could have been its strongest message: the criminalisation of hate speech.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa34d ago

The IEC launched “Beats for My Peeps” election edutainment programme which will air on SABC1 on 3 June at 18:00 to encourage youth voter participation

3.1/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa35d ago

A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience

3.1/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇷🇴Romania 🇧🇬Bulgaria+137d ago

Johannesburg-listed real estate investor MAS (JSE: MSP) announced it reached a binding agreement to sell its six open-air shopping malls in Romania, with a combined gross leasable area (GLA) of 125,000 square metres, at a value of EUR 281 million. The buyer is AFI Europe, a leading owner of retail and office properties in Central and Eastern Europe controlled by Israeli billionaires Roni and Yehuda Naftali, which thus marks its largest deal on the local market. The transaction will propel AFI Romania directly to second place among the largest shopping centre owners in Romania, after NEPI Rockcastle and surpassing Iulius Group of local entrepreneur Iulian Dascălu, according to Profit.ro .

3.1/10·Romania Insider·Johannesburg, Gauteng

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa40d ago

• “Virginia judge dismisses charges against assistant principal in teacher shooting case.” — The Guardian • “Virginia tries to balance regulating AI and avoiding Trump blowback.” — VPM • “Medicaid cuts likely to be front and center in Virginia midterm elections.” — WVTF • “Why Chesterfield County is pumping the brakes on the Southside Speedway […]

3.1/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa40d ago

In the wake of the ruling that the new fixed tariffs are unlawful and invalid, a concerning mischaracterisation of the case has emerged. The ratepayers now offer their account – and an open door to the mayor and mayoral committee.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalCrisis🇿🇦South Africa41d ago

South Africa’s conservation establishment has a favourite phrase, ‘sustainable use’, presented as the pragmatic answer to balancing biodiversity protection with economic reality. But sustainable use is not a self-executing principle. It depends on science, lawful governance and meaningful enforcement.

3.1/10·Daily Maverick (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa43d ago

Minister Mantashe has tabled his department's budget of R2. 86 billion for the 2026/2027 year.

3.1/10·SABC News (South Africa)

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PoliticalCrisis🇿🇦South Africa43d ago

Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners facing genocide with costs of resettling them at $100m The US government has said it will increase the number of white South Africans it admits as refugees this year from about 7,500 to 17,500, claiming that “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.” Since starting his second term in office last year, Donald Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners are racially targeted and face a “white genocide” , which South Africa’s government has furiously rebutted. Continue reading...

3.1/10·The Guardian World

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa43d ago

A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly reshaped through disinformation, elite capture and engineered narratives. The revelations force a reckoning with the continent’s own vulnerabilities and with the manufactured solidarities that have seduced parts of Africa’s political […]

3.1/10·Mail & Guardian (additional)

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PoliticalUpdate🇨🇴Colombia 🇿🇦South Africa43d ago

Leading clean energy utility, NextEra Energy (NYSE:NEE), has agreed to buy Dominion Energy (NYSE:D) in an all-stock transaction valued at $66.8 billion, marking the largest power utility acquisition on record. The merger unites Florida-based NextEra Energy and Virginia-based Dominion Energy to create the world’s largest regulated electric utility, a power sector titan with an enterprise value exceeding $400 billion including debt. The historic consolidation is directly driven by the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, with high-performance…

3.1/10·Oil Price (Energy Intel)·Florida, Valle del Cauca Department

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa 🇺🇸United States47d ago

Given the absence of national climate leadership in our current political environment, states and localities are more critical than ever in advancing climate action. In Virginia, Maryland and New York, state and local politicians are poised to be climate leaders or laggards when it comes to controlling methane, a potent, short-lived greenhouse gas. Second only […]

3.1/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa47d ago

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress gathered for a key meeting as President Cyril Ramaphosa faces renewed impeachment pressure linked to the controversial Farmgate cash-heist scandal.

3.1/10·Africanews

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PoliticalUpdate🇿🇦South Africa49d ago

• “A racist remark about Jeffries sets off Democratic anger in Virginia.” — The New York Times • “Virginia leaders press governor to sign collective bargaining bill.” — Courthouse News • “Hiring new Virginia Tech president likely to take 6 to 8 months, search firm says.” — Cardinal News • “3 people in Maryland and […]

3.1/10·Virginia Mercury·Virginia, Free State

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PoliticalUpdate🇳🇬Nigeria 🇬🇭Ghana 🇳🇪Niger+150d ago

The South African president says the country must ‘deal decisively and within the law’ with the challenge of illegal immigration after Nigeria and Ghana voiced concern for their citizens.

3.1/10·The Africa Report

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