Month: May 2025
News24 | Ghana rides high with a world-beating currency
Ghana’s inflation rate fell to an eight-month low in April as the West African nation’s world-beating currency helped rein in import costs.
Continue ReadingNews24 | SA Reserve Bank governor warns anti-constitutionalism, populism threaten country’s democracy
SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago says anti-constitutionalism and populism threaten the country’s democracy and accountability ecosystems.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Returning Rabada needs more net time after drug drama, says Gujarat skipper
Gujarat Titans’ captain Shubman Gill reckons Kagiso Rabada is in need of more net time after the South African pacer was omitted for Tuesday’s IPL match against the Mumbai Indians following his return from a drug ban.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mbenenge believed Mengo’s LOL, monkey emojis meant she was ‘comfortable’ with sexual overtures
Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge’s advocate has not disputed he used fruit and vegetable emojis as a sex code in WhatsApp communication with a High Court secretary, arguing the emojis she sent him could be interpreted as flirtatious.
Continue ReadingNews24 | OPINION | Bonds, debt swaps among finance solutions to adapt to climate change
There are several barriers to attracting private capital to fund climate adaptation measures, but collaboration by the private sector, governments, climate funds and multilateral development banks could plug finance gaps, writes Nigel Beck.
Continue ReadingNews24 | UK dismisses idea that British workers being ‘sold out’ in India trade deal
Britain’s trade minister on Wednesday defended a contentious tax break for some Indian workers agreed as part of a landmark free trade agreement with India, saying the idea that he had undercut British workers was “absolute nonsense”.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Kabul warns India, Pakistan that escalation ‘not in interest of region’
Afghanistan’s Taliban government warned India and Pakistan on Wednesday that further escalation was not “in the interest of the region” after they exchanged artillery fire along their contested frontier.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Investigation complete, no more arrests for attempted murder of advocate Coreth Naudé
Police have completed their investigation into the attempted murder of senior advocate Coreth Naudé, who represented SARS in a tax inquiry involving controversial businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize, and no further arrests have been made.
Continue ReadingNews24 | District Six mosque on high alert after bomb threat
The Al-Azhar Masjid in District Six, Cape Town, has been placed on high alert after receiving a message over the weekend warning of a planned bomb attack on the city’s second oldest mosque.
Continue ReadingNews24 | DA to file motion of no confidence in Joburg Mayor Dada Morero
The DA has submitted a motion of no confidence in Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu.
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