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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

South Africa

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Eskom Justifies Power Station Shutdown Delays to S.A’s Climate Commission

Eskom has reassured the South African Presidential Climate Commission that delaying the shutdown of several power stations is necessary. CEO, Dan Marokane told the commission that postponing the decommissioning of Camden, Hendrina, and Grootvlei coal-fired stations until 2030 will cost the utility between 85 and 90 billion rand. Despite the substantial costs, Marokane insists the delays are essential to maintain energy supply.

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UNICEF Report Indicates South Africa Is Among Top 20 Nations With Highest Child Food Poverty

A UNICEF report reveals South Africa is one of 20 countries accounting for 65-percent of all children globally living in severe food poverty. Twenty-three-percent of South African children experience food deprivation and they are 50-percent more likely to suffer life-threatening malnutrition. UNICEF's Christine Muhigana says the consequences can last a lifetime, weakening immunity, increasing disease risk and perpetuating the poverty cycle: E

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ANC says coalition negotiations will prioritise the interests of the people

      ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says coalition negotiations will prioritise the people's interests. The party’s National Executive Committee is meeting today at the Birchwood Hotel, Ekurhuleni to deliberate on outcomes from the National Working Committee and decide on forming the government. Meanwhile, concerned ANC members are protesting outside the hotel, worried about a potential coalition with the DA.  Mbalula refuted claims of an existing agreement with the […]

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Santam In South Africa Receives Claims Amid Severe Weather in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal

Short-term insurer, Santam in South Africa has over the past 48 hours received claims from various parts of the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, resulting from the severe weather that has impacted the provinces in the past few days. Flooding has claimed the lives of ten people and left over three-thousand displaced. Santam’s, Thabo Mabaso says to date, they have received just over 254 claims for damage to property and other […]

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Spain joins S. Africa’s Gaza case at UN top court

      Spain said on Thursday that it will join South Africa's case at the UN's top court in which Pretoria has accused Israel of "genocide" in the Gaza Strip. "Our sole goal is to put an end to the war and to advance on the road of applying the two-state solution", Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said at a press conference. His statement came a week after Spain, […]

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Democratic Union Party In S.A Calls for Annulment of Recent Elections

The Democratic Union Party in S.A wants the annulment of the recent general elections, saying it is still of the view that sections of the Electoral Matters Amendment Act are unconstitutional. The Constitutional Court dismissed the party’s application on Monday, which sought to address the irregularities of the Act. DUP’s spokesperson, Thapelo Makgale, says they believe that conducting the elections under the Electoral Act resulted in the election of an […]

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South Africa’s election results present 3 options for government: all are fraught with danger

        By Philippe Burger, University of the Free State     South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election up-ended 30 years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress. The party garnered only 40.18% of the vote while the […]

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South African voters shifted support in 2024 but that’s nothing new – surveys after previous elections showed party loyalty was fluid

      By Carin Runciman, The University of Edinburgh and Marcel Paret, University of Utah   To the casual observer, the outcome of South Africa’s 2024 national and provincial elections, which herald a new era of national coalition governance, may appear to represent new electoral trends. But that is not the case. While the shift in voting patterns is certainly the largest the country has seen since democratic elections […]

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