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

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Namibia

Namibia and Tanzania plan to solidify their bilateral relationship

  Namibia and Tanzania plan to solidify their bilateral relationship with a focus on collaboration in agriculture, tourism, and fisheries. This comes after a concerted effort to enhance bilateral trade and investment when Namibia and Tanzania convened an Investment and Trade Forum in Windhoek. The forum, hosted by the Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board in collaboration with the High Commission of the United Republic of Tanzania in Namibia, brought […]

todayMay 31, 2024 46

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Africa

Ghana’s free high school policy is getting more girls to complete secondary education – study

    By Victor Osei Kwadwo, United Nations University and Rose Vincent, Utrecht University   Education drives economic growth and individual well-being. Secondary education, in particular, plays a crucial role. In recent decades, this recognition has encouraged several African countries to make secondary education free. One example is Ghana’s Free Public Senior High School (FreeSHS) policy, initiated in 2017. The policy aimed to remove cost barriers to secondary education, including […]

todayMarch 22, 2024 14

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Lifestyle

Money and ageing: South African study shows cash grants help people live longer and have better memory function

  By Molly Rosenberg, Indiana University; Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, University of the Witwatersrand; Kathleen Kahn, University of the Witwatersrand, and Lindsay Kobayashi, University of Michigan   Nearly half of South Africa’s 60 million people receive social grants, ranging from child support to pensions. The grants are designed to provide financial assistance to people living in poverty. The largest components of the South African social grant system were introduced, or expanded […]

todayFebruary 7, 2024 8

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Business / Economics

South Africa is failing people who aren’t poor, but aren’t middle class either

    By Tinashe Mushayanyama, University of South Africa; Adrino Mazenda, University of Pretoria; Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, University of Pretoria, and Mary Mangai, University of Pretoria Many South African households are trapped. They are neither poor nor middle class. As a demographic they hover above the indigence threshold financially. But they are not yet securely in the middle class. This aspirant middle class – individuals whose income is above the indigent […]

todayJanuary 30, 2024 18

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